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The traditional view of language takes a _____ approach by focusing on the formal properties of language. Structural The Skinnerian analysis of language takes a _____ approach by focusing on verbal behavior in relation to the environment. Functional Choose the correct. A. The person engages in the verbal response is called, speaker. B. Verbal behavior needs a trained audience. C. All of behavior maintained by socially-mediated reinforcement is verbal behavior. (Crying)
D. The listener only provides consequences but not antecedents for the speaker's verbal behavior. (listener usually provides Antecedent + Consequence) E. A & B F. All of the above are correct E. A & B American Sign language is a form of verbal behavior. True Which of the following is/are correct? A. All socially-mediated behavior is verbal behavior B. To qualify as verbal behavior the behavior needs a trained speaker C. To qualify as verbal behavior the behavior needs a trained audience D. All of the above are correct
Which of the following is incorrect? A. Operant selection is responsible for the evolution of verbal behavior. B. Cultural selection is responsible for the evolution of verbal behavior. C. Operant selection involves when a person learns a language such as English. D. None of the above is correct. A. Operant selection is responsible for the evolution of verbal behavior. Li was invited by her friend to help children with behavior problems in Korea. In order to succeed in her project, she started to learn Korean one year before she visited Korean and continued to learn this language when she was working on her project in Korea. What type of selection involved when Li learned Korean. Operant Selection (Individual's learning, doesnt pass generation to generation)
To qualify as verbal behavior the behavior needs _______ audience. A trained audience Cultural selection is responsible for _________ while operant selection is responsible for ______________. verbal behavior, individual verbal repertoires Solely as a result seeing a rat, Jessica screams, "Rat." Is this a tact? Yes Choose the correct verbal operant. Saying, "Cookie", solely as a result of being food deprived and seeing a person who has given him cookies in the past.
Choose the correct Verbal Operant. Getting oneself a cookie solely as the result of being food deprived. Not a verbal behavior Is this a mand? Saying, "give me an apple", solely as the result of being required to teach a child to discriminate between apples and oranges. Yes The first time Liyu took Subway in Taiwan. She observed people scanning their passes in front of the gate, then the gate would automatically open. Therefore, Liyu scanned her pass too. Is this an example of: Motor Imitation
Saying, "Cookie", as a result of seeing the word "cookie". Is this an example of: Codic Is this an intraverbal? Saying, "Hello", as a result of seeing a friend approaching who has not seen you. No (Mand/EO) Which Verbal Operant? I say "hello" and you say "hello". Your response is a(n): Duplic (echoic/Point to point + formal similarity) Saying, "what's up" upon hearing "what's up." This is an example of: Duplic (echoic)
Li gives Zoey treats if she sleeps on Li's bed instead of sleeping inside closets. After two weeks later, Zoey starts sleeping on Jacob's bed. When her owner, Larissa, takes her back, she even sleeps on her bed. This is an example of: Stimulus Generalization Jessica wanted to cook for Dr. Kang so she asked him, "what is your favorite food?" Dr. Kang has severe sore throat and was not able to talk so he wrote Chinese food in a piece of paper. Dr. Kang's behavior is an example of: Topography-Based verbal behavior Lilly has not eaten any food for 3 hours. She brought her talking device to her mother and swiped to food page. She pointed to one of icons, Chicken, and looked at her mother. Is Lilly's behavior an example of:
Selection-Based verbal behavior She said, "water," as a result of seeing a person holding a bottle of water and walking toward her after she has not drunk for 24 hours in a dessert. This is an example of: Mand-Tact Pure mand or multiple control? Li wrote, "chip," in her notebook as a result of feeling hungry and hear her learner said, "chip." Multiple control (Mand-Codic) Pure mand or multiple control? Signing, "food," solely as a result of feeling hungry. Pure mand
intraverbal? Asking a question (mand) The ______ name of an MO refers to the effect of the MO has on the consequence. The _____ name of an MO refers to the specific type of consequence whose effectiveness if being altered. First; Last The value-altering effect of an EO is referred to as an: Establishing effect The value-altering effect of an AO is referred to as an: Abolishing effect
EOs always evokes behavior while AOs always abate behavior. False Establishing Operations relation to reinforcement have an ______________ effect on behavior. Evocative Establishing Operations relation to punishment have an ______________ effect on behavior. Abative My alarm clock is set for 7:00AM. I wake up and see that it is 6:59AM, and that the alarm signal is on (the alarm is set). I switch the alarm setting to "off" and the signal disappears.
My learner immediately stops teasing his sister. The statement, which abated my learner's teasing, functioned as a ________. Discriminative Stimulus for punishment (SDp) A waiter brings me a hamburger and French fries. I notice there is no ketchup on the table. I immediately begin looking for the waiter so I can get his attention. In relation to the waiter, the fact that there is no ketchup on the table functioned as a _______. CMO-T (Need the waiter to get the ketchup; The waiter doesn't pair with ketchup so it is not CMO-S; she/he brings the ketchup.) When Joe would hang out with his friends, they would often pick on him for being a wimp until he started a fight with someone in the neighborhood. Often, they were listening to
Chinese opera when this occurred. One day, while listening to Chinese opera on his headphones, Joe picks a fight with someone, even though his friends are nowhere around. In relation to fighting, the Chinese opera functioned as a ______. CMO-S Usually, Dr. Jose's class finishes about 10 AM. It is 9:55 AM, Anthony starts to search for his car keys so he can drive to his home as soon as the class is done. In relation to the car keys, the fact that the class is almost done functioned as a _______. CMO-T In a chained schedule, the terminal reinforcer is provided: At the end of a sequence of signaled reinforcement schedules
Under what condition is behavior most likely to occur? SD and EOSR+ Under what condition is behavior least likely to occur? SΔ and AO SR+ When Janet gets a hundred-dollar Macy's gift card from her mom on her birthday, Macy's department store becomes an effective form of reinforcement. What type of motivating operation effect does this demonstrate? Value-altering (MO) Eating an entire duck during the Chinese
New Year party reduces Li ordering ducks. In relation to ordering ducks, eating an entire duck functioned as a(n): AO for reinforcement Walking in the street in Taiwan during a 95 degree summer day made me very hot! When I saw a tea shop, I immediately went in to order a cup of milk tea and drank it. Thus, the heat served as a: EO for positive reinforcement Just coming back from Taiwan decreasing the effectiveness of Chinese food as a reinforcer. What type of effect? Abolishing effect Drinking cool milk tea quenches my thirst, and cools me off, so I stop drinking milk tea.
