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The formal properties of language involve the ________ and ___________ of a verbal response,
whereas the functional properties of language involve the functions of the response. - Answer:
Topography, structure
A common misconception about Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior is that he did not accept the
formal classifications of language, such as grammar and structural linguistics, because his focus was on
the______________ classifications. - Answer: functional
Verbal behavior is ____________ through the mediation of another person's behavior and can indirectly
obtain the same reinforcement of a nonverbal behavior through the ______________ - Answer:
reinforced, listener
Verbal behavior, in ABA, includes both ____________-verbal and nonvocal-verbal behavior. - Answer:
vocal
A ____________________ is the unit of analysis for verbal behavior and are identified by the operant's
functional relation between a type of responding and variables such as motivating variables,
discriminative stimuli, and consequences. - Answer: verbal operant
The ________________ is where the response has point-to-point correspondence, but without formal
similarity. - Answer: codic
The ______________ is where the response and the verbal stimulus have formal similarity and a history
of generalized reinforcement. - Answer: duplic
Textual and taking dictation are both types of ____________ relations. - Answer: codic
, The three types of _____________ relations are echoic, motor imitation, and copying text. - Answer:
duplic
Duplic relations have a history of ______________ reinforcement. - Answer: generalized
The ______________ is under the control of specific reinforcement whereas the all other operants
produce generalized conditioned reinforcer. - Answer: mand
The echoic occurs when the speaker repeats the verbal behavior of another speaker with point-to-point
correspondence and ______________ . - Answer: formal similarity
Unlike the echoic, the ______________ does not have point-to-point correspondence because the
speaker differentially responds to another's verbal behavior. - Answer: Intraverbal
The listener is the mediator of reinforcement for the speaker as well as the discriminative stimulus for
the speaker's - Answer: behavior
A word that can evoke very different intraverbal responses from different people or during different
times is likely under - Answer: divergent multiple control
Verbal behavior that is controlled by multiple stimuli and is a blend of a tact and a mand is called an -
Answer: impuretact
An ______________ is verbal behavior controlled by nonverbal stimuli that informs the listener of some
of the nonverbal aspects of the primary verbal behavior or mands the speaker to react in some specific
way. - Answer: autoclitic
Point-to-point correspondence - Answer: 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.