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Unit 8
Course 5011
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |