Verbal Operants Flashcards
How many VO are there?
6
M, T, E, Tr, Te, Iv.
Mand…
4
Ask/demand what they need
FC- motivating v. + specific reinforce.
Impure, pure, sentences, attention, info
Direct benefit, satisfaction, removal
Tact…
4
Attachment of a label- items from contact
FC- non verbal DS
Public/private response or thoughts.
Generalised conditioned reinforcement
Echoic…
5
Repetition of speech
Infancy- generalised vocal imitation
FC- verbal discriminative stimulus
Symbolic- meaning, non-sym- no meaning
Mediated reinforcement
Transcription…
4
Verbal stimuli + written responses
Derived from Echoic VO
Needs explicitly taught
Also phonetical word spelling.
Textual…
3
Written verbal stimulus = vocal verbal response
2 response modalities
Inc. age= decreased usage (subvocal instead)
Intraverbal…
5
Linguistic interaction (start of convo)
Speaker differentially responds to the VB of others
No 1-1 correspondence
Eg. Counting, reciting poems/alphabet
Generalised conditioned reinforcement.
Chomsky, 1967 criticisms…
5
Very heavily criticised
Meaningless operational terms
Obscurity of notions
No anthropological evidence
Vagueness of textual VO
What are verbal operants?
Skinner, 1957.
Units of analysis- operant behaviour mediated through another.
3 functional relationships: MV, DS, C
