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

Answer

A mand is a verbal operant whose form specifies the reinforcer, and it is maintained by the specific reinforcer it requests (e.g., asking for water to get water).

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A non-verbal antecedent stimulus in the environment

Answer

A tact is a verbal response under the control of a non-verbal discriminative stimulus (an object, event, or property) and is maintained by generalized conditioned reinforcement.

Question 3

An echoic is a verbal operant that:

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

An echoic involves repeating another person's verbal behavior with formal similarity (sound-by-sound match) and is maintained by generalized conditioned reinforcement.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Echoic

Answer

Echoics involve point-to-point correspondence between the verbal stimulus and the verbal response, distinguishing them from intraverbals which lack this correspondence.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Intraverbal

Answer

Intraverbals are controlled by another person's verbal behavior but the response does not match the form of the antecedent (e.g., answering 'What do you eat with?' with 'Fork').

ABA - Applied Behavior Analysis Practice Test

ABA - Applied Behavior Analysis Practice Test

ABA Verbal Behavior and Language