ABAT Verbal Behavior 2

Question 1

Autoclitics are verbal behaviors that:

Accepted Answer

Modify the effects of other verbal behavior on listeners

Answer

Autoclitics are secondary verbal operants that modify or qualify the effect of primary verbal behavior on the listener, such as negation, quantification, or relational statements.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Prompt

Answer

A prompt is a teaching procedure used in ABA, not a verbal operant in Skinner's framework; the primary verbal operants are mand, tact, echoic, intraverbal, textual, and transcription.

Question 3

The reinforcement that typically maintains a tact is:

Accepted Answer

Generalized conditioned reinforcement from the verbal community

Answer

Tacts are maintained by generalized conditioned reinforcement (e.g., social praise, attention) provided by the verbal community rather than specific reinforcement tied to the item named.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Behavior controlled by verbal stimuli produced by a speaker

Answer

Listener behavior refers to the behavior of an organism that is under the discriminative control of verbal stimuli produced by another speaker, completing the verbal episode.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Transcription

Answer

Transcription involves writing or typing spoken verbal stimuli, with point-to-point correspondence between the spoken stimulus and the written response.

(ABAT) Applied Behavior Analysis Test Practice Test

(ABAT) Applied Behavior Analysis Test Practice Test

ABAT Verbal Behavior 2