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Verbal Behavior
Weeks 14-15
15
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Graduate
04/20/2010

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Term
properties of language
Definition
form - topography of response
function - cause of the response, includes environmental variables
Term
verbal behavior
Definition
behavior that is reinforced through the mediation of another person - NOT VOCAL!
Term
verbal operant
Definition
a unit - functional relation between a type of responding and the same independent variables that control nonverbal behavior (MO, Sd, consequences)
Term
list of verbal operants
Definition
mand, tact, echoic, interverbal, textual, transcription
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mand
Definition
controlled by MO and specific reinforcement, speaker asks for what he wants or needs
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tact
Definition
verbal operant controlled by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and generalized conditioned reinforcement - speaker labels items
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point to point correspondence
Definition
beginning, middle and end of stimulus match the beginning, middle and end of the response
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echoic
Definition
controlled by a verbal sd and generalized conditioned reinforcement. The response and SD have point to point correspondence and formal similarity
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formal similarity
Definition
sd and response share the same sense mode and physically resemble one another
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intraverbal
Definition
controlled by a verbal SD and generalized conditioned reinforcement. No point to point correspondence. Conversations!
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textual
Definition
controlled by a verbal SD and generalized conditioned reinforcement. Point to point correspondence, no formal similarity. Reading without implying comprehension.
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transcription
Definition
controlled by spoken verbal stimulus and generalized conditioned reinforcement. Point to point correspondence, no formal similarity.
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verbal stimulus with point to point correspondence and formal similarity
Definition
echoic
Term
verbal stimulus without point to point correspondence or formal similarity
Definition
intraverbal
Term
verbal stimulus with point to point correspondence without formal similarity
Definition
textual or transcription
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