Stimulus Control and Verbal Behavior Flashcards
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Which stimulus control concept describes a learner responding correctly to a trained stimulus but not to similar untrained stimuli?
Answer: Stimulus discrimination
Stimulus discrimination occurs when a behavior is emitted in the presence of the SD but not in the presence of stimuli that were not reinforced.
A verbal operant under the control of a motivating operation that is reinforced by a generalized conditioned reinforcer is called a:
Answer: Mand
A mand is controlled by a motivating operation and produces the specific reinforcer related to that operation.
When a student labels a picture of a dog as 'dog' with no other prompts, this is an example of which verbal operant?
Answer: Tact
A tact is a verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus (the picture) and maintained by generalized conditioned reinforcement.
Multiple exemplar training is primarily used to promote which behavioral outcome?
Answer: Generalization across settings and stimuli
Training with multiple exemplars exposes learners to varied instances so the skill transfers to untrained stimuli and settings.
The process by which a neutral stimulus acquires discriminative control through pairing with an existing SD is called:
Answer: Conditional discrimination
Conditional discrimination (also called stimulus-stimulus pairing in some contexts) establishes new SDs by pairing neutral stimuli with stimuli that already control responding.
An intraverbal is maintained by which type of reinforcement?
Answer: Generalized conditioned reinforcement
Intraverbals, like tacts, are maintained by generalized conditioned reinforcers such as attention or praise, not by specific reinforcers related to the verbal antecedent.