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| Anyone who functions as a discriminative stimulus evoking verbal behavior. Different audiences may control different verbal behavior about the same topic because of a differential reinforcement history. Teens may describe the same event in different ways when talking to peers versus parents. |
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| A secondary verbal operant in which some aspect of a speaker's own verbal behavior functions as an sD or an MO for additional speaker verbal behavior. The autoclitic relation can be thought of as verbal behavior about verbal behavior. |
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| Punishment that occurs independent of the social mediation by others (i.e., a response product serves as a punisher independent of the social environment). |
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| Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others (e.g., scratching an insect bite relieves the itch) |
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| An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by a nonvocal verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with the controlling response. |
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| An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with the response. |
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| A situation that occurs when the controlling antecedent stimulus an the response or response product (a) share the same sense mode (e.g., both stimulus and response are visual, auditory,, or tactile) and (b) physically resemble each other. The verbal relations with this are echoic, copying a text, and imitation as it relates to sign language. |
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| A tact evoked by a novel stimulus that shares all of the relevant or defining features associated with the original stimulus. |
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| A verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by both an MO and a nonverbal stimulus; thus, the response is part mand and part tact. |
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| An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus and that does not have point-to-point correspondence with the verbal stimulus. |
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| Someone who provides reinforcement for verbal behavior. A listener may also serve as an audience evoking verbal behavior. |
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| An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by an MO and followed by specific reinforcement. |
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| metaphorical (tact) extension |
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| A tact evoked by a novel stimulus that shares some, but not all, of the relevant features of the original stimulus. |
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| metonymical (tact) extension |
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| A tact evoked by a novel stimulus that shares non of the relevant features of the original stimulus configuration, but some irrelevant yet related feature has acquired stimulus control. |
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There are two types:
- convergent
- divergent |
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| point-to-point correspondence |
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| A relation between the stimulus and response or response product that occurs when the beginning, middle, and end of the verbal stimulus matches the beginning, middle, and end of the verbal response. The verbal relations with it are echoic, copying a text, imitation as it relates to sign language, textual and transcription. |
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| solistic (tact) extension |
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| A verbal response evoked by a stimulus property that is only indirectly related to the proper tact relation. |
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| Someone who engages in verbal behavior by emitting mands, tacts, intraverbals, autoclitics, and so on. It is also someone who uses sign language, gestures, signals, written words, codes, pictures, or any form of verbal behavior. |
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| An elementary verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement. |
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| An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence, but not formal similarity, between the stimulus and the response product. |
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| An elementary verbal operant involving a spoken verbal stimulus that evokes a written, typed, or finger-spelled response. Like the textual, there is point-to-point correspondence between the stimulus and the response product, but no formal similarity. |
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| Behavior whose reinforcement is mediated by a listener; includes both vocal-verbal behavior and nonvocal-verbal behavior. It encompasses the subject matter usually treated as language and topics such as thinking, grammar, composition, and understanding. |
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| convergent multiple control |
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| occurs when a single verbal response is a function of more than one variable and what is said has more than one antecedent source of control |
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| divergent multiple control |
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| occurs when a single antecedent variable affects the strength of more than one responses. |
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