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RBT: Verbal Operants
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| audience | functioning as a discriminative stimulus is the listener for verbal behavior |
| automatic punishment | Decrease in behavior that occurs independent of social mediation by others |
| automatic reinforcement | Increase in behavior that occurs independent of social mediation of others (scratching insect bite) |
| textual | reading written text, has point to pint correspondence, but no formal similarity between stimulus and response product |
| echoic | Point to point correspondence and formal similarity; repeats verbal behavior of another person controlled by verbal discriminative stimulus |
| formal similarity | controlling antecedent stimulus and the response or response product share same sense mode, (visual, audio or tactile) and physically resemble each other |
| intraverbal | operant occurs when a verbal discriminative stimulus evokes verbal response that does not have point to point correspondence with verbal stimulus |
| listener | provides reinforcement for verbal behavior |
| mand | speaker asks for what he wants, under control of (MO); reinforced by access to item |
| point-to-point correspondence | between stimulus and response or response product occurs when begging middle and end of verbal stills match beginning middle end of response |
| speaker | gains access to reinforcer and control environment through behavior of listener |
| tact | speaker names things and actions through contact with senses. function of non verbal discriminative stimuli; maintained by generalized reinforcement |
| transcription | writing and spelling words that are spoken; has point to pint correspondence, but no formal similarity between stimulus and response product |