verbal behavior - correct answer ✔✔behavior that is reinforced through mediation of another person
who has been specifically trained to provide such reinforcement
mediated reinforcement - correct answer ✔✔a stimulus change that occurs after a response has been
emitted, increases the frequency of that response, and results from the action of another individual
three types of controlling variables when classifying verbal behavior - correct answer ✔✔verbal
discriminative stimuli
non-verbal discriminative stimuli
establishing operations
establishing operation - correct answer ✔✔an environmental event or operation that momentarily
increases the reinforcing effectiveness of some particular reinforcement
verbal stimulus - correct answer ✔✔a physical energy change capable of affecting an organism's sensory
receptors that have a specific form or pattern, which as a unit, has controlling effectiveness and is the
result of verbal behavior
Features of Mediated Reinforcement - correct answer ✔✔1) occurs after a response has been emitted
2) it increases the future probability of that response
3) it results from the action of another individual
Three types of controlling variables - correct answer ✔✔verbal discriminative stimuli, non-verbal
discriminative stimuli, establishing operations
establishing operation - correct answer ✔✔environmental event or operation that momentarily
increases the reinforcing effectiveness of some particular reinforcement