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| What year was Verbal Behavior by B.F. Skinner published? |
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| How did Skinner define "verbal behavior"? |
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| Behavior whose reinforcement is mediated by another person. |
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| What is the goal of the study of verbal behavior? |
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| To predict and control utterances of the speaker |
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| To determine what someone says when the mean something, we: |
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| Look at the antecedents and consequences of the utterance |
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| True or False: Our goal in verbal behavior is to predict the one, specific behavior that might be evoked by a particular antecedent. |
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| The major measure in verbal behavior, which is more elusive than frequency and has to do with the operant strength of a particular unit of behavior, is: |
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| The overall frequency of verbal behavior refers to how much someone says a certain word. Skinner argued this was more of a formal analysis. Instead, he encouraged a(n) _________________ analysis to determine the conditions under which an instance of verbal behavior occurs. |
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| The form of verbal behavior may be: |
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| Speech, sign, picture exchange, writing, using a device |
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Truck scenario:
Mom says, “My son can request toys.”
She holds up his truck and says, “Do you want truck?”
Child says, “Truck.”
Mom says, “See, he can ask for truck.”
What were the antecedents, or sources of control? |
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EO - Child wants truck
Mom saying "truck" (echoic stimulus)
The truck (nonverbal stimulus) |
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| Which verbal operant has a nonverbal stimulus as antecedent and generalized conditioned social reinforcer as the consequence? |
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| Which verbal operant has a motivating operation as the antecedent and a specific reinforcer as the consequence? |
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| In magazine training, the food dispenser makes a sound, the rat approaches the food cup and eats the food. The food dispenser becomes an SD and has a(n): |
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| Evocative effect, meaning the effect is immediate and relatively short-lived |
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| In magazine training, the food dispenser sound is a(n): |
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| Conditioned stimulus eliciting salivation |
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| In discrimination training, pressing a lever in the presence (but not absence) of a buzzer produced food. The food dispenser sound is now a(n): |
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| Both a reinforcer for the lever pressing and an SD for approaching the food cup |
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A child who loves ice cream is playing in his front yard and hears the ice cream truck music -- ice cream truck is approaching.
What are the behavioral effects of that music? |
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1. Conditioned stimulus: elicits salivation
2. Establishing operation: increase value of money, engage in behavior that produced money last time
3. Discriminative stimulus (SD): approach the street/truck
4. Conditioned reinforcer: increase future playing in the yard |
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