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BEHP 5011 Unit 8
Term | Definition |
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Verbal Behavior | Operant behavior reinforced through the mediation of other persons. |
Speaker | The individual emitting the verbal response. |
Listener | The individual the speaker interacts with. |
Audience | Composed of listeners who belong to a trained verbal community. |
Elementary Verbal Operants | Tact Mand Duplic Codic Intraverbal |
Tact | Under the antecedent control of a non-verbal stimulus. |
Mand | Under the antecedent control of an establishing operation (EO). |
Duplic | Under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli with point-to-point correspondence and with formal similarity to the response. |
Types of Duplic | Echoics (vocal imitation, repeating) Copying a text Mimetics (motor imitation) |
Echoic | The repeating of a vocal verbal unit. |
Copying a Text | Has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity to the written verbal stimulus. |
Mimetic | The imitation of a physical movement that is also a non-vocal verbal unit. |
Codic | Under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli with point-to-point correspondence but without formal similarity. |
Intraverbal | Under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli without point-to-point correspondence and with no formal similarity. |
Receptive Language | Under the antecedent control of a mand to comply. |
Selection-based Verbal Behavior | The speaker selects a stimulus in the environment by pointing or finding a picture and handing it to the listener. |
Topography-based Verbal Behavior | The listener discriminates what the speaker is “saying” based on the topography of the verbal behavior. |
Higher-order Class | An operant class that includes within it other classes that can themselves function as operants. |
Rule-Governed Behavior | A higher-order operant response class that is under the control of verbal antecedent stimuli. |
Function-Altering Effects of Rules | Alter the evocative or abative effect of other antecedent stimuli. |
Contingency-Shaped Behavior | Behavior acquired via immediate reinforcement contingencies. |