ABAT Verbal Behavior 2

Question 1

Autoclitics are verbal behaviors that:

Accepted Answer

Modify the effects of other verbal behavior on listeners

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Function as mands for attention

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Serve as prompts for echoic responses

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Replace nonverbal communication

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT one of Skinner's primary verbal operants?

Accepted Answer

Prompt

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Mand

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Tact

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Echoic

Question 3

The reinforcement that typically maintains a tact is:

Accepted Answer

Generalized conditioned reinforcement from the verbal community

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Automatic positive reinforcement

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Specific reinforcement directly related to the stimulus named

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Escape from aversive stimulation

Question 4

In Skinner's verbal behavior framework, 'listener behavior' refers to:

Accepted Answer

Behavior controlled by verbal stimuli produced by a speaker

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The speaker listening to their own speech

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Private verbal behavior in the form of inner speech

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Behaviors that maintain the speaker's verbal repertoire

Question 5

Writing down spoken words (e.g., taking dictation) is an example of which verbal operant?

Accepted Answer

Transcription

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Textual

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Echoic

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Intraverbal

Question 6

Jack Michael's concept of the 'establishing operation' was later refined and renamed by Laraway et al. (2003) to:

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Motivating operation

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Discriminative stimulus

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Conditioned motivating operation

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Abolishing operation

Question 7

When a speaker's verbal behavior affects their own subsequent behavior (e.g., making a list to remember items), this is described as the speaker acting as:

Accepted Answer

Their own listener

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An autoclitic responder

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An intraverbal controller

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A tact mediator