EDS 500 Final EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026/2027
What is verbal behavior? Who wrote the book Verbal Behavior, and what is verbal
community? - Answers Verbal behavior is behavior reinforced through the mediation of others.
B.F. Skinner
Verbal community comprises practices within a particular culture
Mand - Answers Establishing Operation or motivating operation, specific reinforcer
Tact - Answers Nonverbal SD,GCR
Intraverbal - Answers Verbal behavior no point to point correspondence, GCR
Echoic - Answers Verbal behavior with point to point correspondence.GCR
Listener behavior - Answers Verbal SD, GCR ' access to a preferred item or praise
Three types of duplics - Answers Copying text, imitating signs, echoic
Duplics have point to point correspondence and formal similarity true or false - Answers True
Formal similarity means - Answers The model and the behavior resemble each other in the
same sense
Point to point correspondence means - Answers That the middle beginning and end of the
antecedent verbal stimulus match the middle beginning and end of the response
Imitation involves - Answers A new behavior that follows a novel antecedent response
Start teaching imitation when - Answers The child has a few mands
Prerequisite for imitation training - Answers Staying seated, keeping hands in lap. Looking at the
reacher, looking at objects
When teaching imitation you usually use_________________ prompting procedure - Answers
Most-to-least
Public accompaniment - Answers When some observable stimulus accompanies a private event.
Bruise, blood, sunburn, learning opportunities are taught in natural environments
Collateral events - Answers Person engages in collateral behavior. Holds their stomach
Order in which to teach verbal operants. - Answers mand, Tact,duplics ,intraverbals, codics
What are verbal conditional discrimination - Answers When one verbal stimulus alters the
evocative effects of another verbal stimulus
, within the same antecedent's configuration, and that stimulus evokes the
response.
i. Who is not going to dinner? - Marty - GCR
ii. What grows on your head? - Hair - GCR
What does PECS stand for? - Answers Picture Exchange Communication System
What are the phases of PECS - Answers Phase 1: Requesting an item
Phase 2: Increasing persistence
Phase 3a: Highly preferred vs distractor item
Phase 3b: Two preferred items
Phase 4: Establishes simple sentence structure
Phase 5: Teaching a child to respond, "What do you want?" and attributes
Phase 6: commenting
What are the types of matching - Answers Conditional discrimination and match to Sample
( arbitrary and auditory to visual stimulus)
What is conditional discrimination - Answers reinforcing responses to a particular antecedent if
and only if they are preceded or accompanied by a particular additional stimulus. "Show me the
red ball." "Touch the word "fission. 'Present a picture of a ball and the directive match from
a field of three cards
What is match to sample - Answers A task in which an individual selects from two or more
alternatives the
stimulus that matches or corresponds to a sample
o Arbitrary
▪ Visual stimuli
▪ Picture to object, word to word, object to printed word.
o Auditory to visual stimulus
▪ Receptive identification
▪ Plays an important role in Tact development
What is verbal behavior? Who wrote the book Verbal Behavior, and what is verbal
community? - Answers Verbal behavior is behavior reinforced through the mediation of others.
B.F. Skinner
Verbal community comprises practices within a particular culture
Mand - Answers Establishing Operation or motivating operation, specific reinforcer
Tact - Answers Nonverbal SD,GCR
Intraverbal - Answers Verbal behavior no point to point correspondence, GCR
Echoic - Answers Verbal behavior with point to point correspondence.GCR
Listener behavior - Answers Verbal SD, GCR ' access to a preferred item or praise
Three types of duplics - Answers Copying text, imitating signs, echoic
Duplics have point to point correspondence and formal similarity true or false - Answers True
Formal similarity means - Answers The model and the behavior resemble each other in the
same sense
Point to point correspondence means - Answers That the middle beginning and end of the
antecedent verbal stimulus match the middle beginning and end of the response
Imitation involves - Answers A new behavior that follows a novel antecedent response
Start teaching imitation when - Answers The child has a few mands
Prerequisite for imitation training - Answers Staying seated, keeping hands in lap. Looking at the
reacher, looking at objects
When teaching imitation you usually use_________________ prompting procedure - Answers
Most-to-least
Public accompaniment - Answers When some observable stimulus accompanies a private event.
Bruise, blood, sunburn, learning opportunities are taught in natural environments
Collateral events - Answers Person engages in collateral behavior. Holds their stomach
Order in which to teach verbal operants. - Answers mand, Tact,duplics ,intraverbals, codics
What are verbal conditional discrimination - Answers When one verbal stimulus alters the
evocative effects of another verbal stimulus
, within the same antecedent's configuration, and that stimulus evokes the
response.
i. Who is not going to dinner? - Marty - GCR
ii. What grows on your head? - Hair - GCR
What does PECS stand for? - Answers Picture Exchange Communication System
What are the phases of PECS - Answers Phase 1: Requesting an item
Phase 2: Increasing persistence
Phase 3a: Highly preferred vs distractor item
Phase 3b: Two preferred items
Phase 4: Establishes simple sentence structure
Phase 5: Teaching a child to respond, "What do you want?" and attributes
Phase 6: commenting
What are the types of matching - Answers Conditional discrimination and match to Sample
( arbitrary and auditory to visual stimulus)
What is conditional discrimination - Answers reinforcing responses to a particular antecedent if
and only if they are preceded or accompanied by a particular additional stimulus. "Show me the
red ball." "Touch the word "fission. 'Present a picture of a ball and the directive match from
a field of three cards
What is match to sample - Answers A task in which an individual selects from two or more
alternatives the
stimulus that matches or corresponds to a sample
o Arbitrary
▪ Visual stimuli
▪ Picture to object, word to word, object to printed word.
o Auditory to visual stimulus
▪ Receptive identification
▪ Plays an important role in Tact development
