ABA Verbal Behavior and Language

Question 1

According to Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior, a mand is a verbal operant that:

Accepted Answer

Specifies its own reinforcer and is maintained by that specific reinforcement

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Is controlled by a non-verbal discriminative stimulus

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Is evoked by the verbal behavior of another person

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Is maintained by generalized conditioned reinforcement

Question 2

A tact is a verbal operant that is primarily under the control of:

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A non-verbal antecedent stimulus in the environment

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A motivating operation

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Another person's verbal behavior

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Generalized conditioned reinforcement only

Question 3

An echoic is a verbal operant that:

Accepted Answer

Repeats the verbal stimulus of a speaker with point-to-point correspondence

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Labels a non-verbal stimulus

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Requests a specific reinforcer

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Responds to written text

Question 4

What term describes a verbal operant that is controlled by verbal antecedents and has point-to-point correspondence with those antecedents?

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Echoic

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Intraverbal

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Tact

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Mand

Question 5

Which verbal operant is controlled by a verbal antecedent WITHOUT point-to-point correspondence?

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Intraverbal

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Echoic

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Textual

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Transcription

Question 6

A motivating operation (MO) affects verbal behavior by:

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Altering the reinforcing value of a stimulus and the frequency of behavior related to that stimulus

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Providing a discriminative stimulus for a specific response

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Removing all consequences for the verbal response

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Establishing a new conditioned reinforcer