Exam 12: Verbal Behavior

A pigeon was trained in a symbolic MTS procedure to peck a circle any time the sample is a square and to peck a vertical line any time the sample is a horizontal line. After several months of training, the pigeon is presented the circle as the sample stimulus for the first time. What are the researchers most likely testing?

______ introduced the term verbal behavior to deal with the ______ of the speaker.

Verbal behavior refers to:

Recent research suggests that the most important determinant of emergent stimulus relations is:

In echoic behavior, when _____ by the child correspond to those of the adult, the ____ patterns also overlap.

When a verbal response depends on a verbal discriminative stimulus, the verbal relations are _____.

When John says to his sister Katherine, "Could you please get me a glass of water" rather than "Get me a glass of water," the basic unit added to his mand is called a (an):

Saying "This is a fat cat" to the spoken stimulus "This is a fat cat" is an example of a(n):

Research comparing the effectiveness of multiple-exemplar instructions (MEI) and single-exemplar instruction (SEI) in training naming relations has found:

John reads the sign on the road out loud to his wife as they pass by: "Trucks entering highway." This is an example of a(n):

Lamarre and Holland (1985) demonstrated _____ by showing that children ages 3-5 under extinction conditions did not show evidence of manding if they received tact training and vice versa.

For a verbal response to be considered a mand there must be:

There is growing evidence that stimulus equivalence and other derived stimulus relations:

A response such as "I have butterflies in my stomach" can be analyzed as _____.

Intraverbal behavior is best defined as:

A student who emits the verbal response "red" when a teacher shows a picture of a red ball and the verbal prompt "What color is the ball?" is demonstrating:

Skinner's functional independence hypothesis states that:

Recent neurological studies of equivalence relations found evidence that transitive relations activate the ____, while symmetrical relations increase blood flow in the _____.

According to Skinner, ____ refers to getting what you want from others, and ____ refers to making contact or reference to things happening in the world.

A child's ability to say "cat" when shown a picture of a cat and to point to the picture of a cat when given the prompt "cat" demonstrates the equivalence relation of: