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Unit 8 Test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| verbal bx | operant bx 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 | contact, naming, labeling, describing; under the antecedent control of a non-verbal stimulus |
| mand | commanding, demanding, requesting, asking; under the antecedent control of an EO |
| duplic | under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli with point-to-point correspondence and with formal similarity to the response - echoic, mimetic, copying a text |
| types of duplic | echoic, mimetic, copying a text |
| 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 | reading a text; taking dictation; under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli with p2p correspondence but without formal similarity |
| intraverbal | responding, answering, commenting; under antecedent control of verbal stimuli without p2p corresp. and with no formal similarity |
| receptive language | compliance, following an instruction (verbal stim/non-verbal bx); under the antecedent control of a man to comply |
| selection-based verbal bx | the speaker selects a stimulus in the environment by pointing or finding a picture and handing it to the listener; listener discriminates |
| topography-based verbal bx | the listener discriminates what the speaker is "saying" based on the topography of the verbal bx |
| higher-order class | an operant class that includes within it other classes that can themselves function as operants |
| rule-governed bx | a higher-order operant response class that is under the control of verbal antecedent stimuli |
| contingency-shaped bx | bx acquired via immediate reinforcement contingencies |
| function-altering effects of rules | alter the evocative or abative effect of other antecedent stimuli |