SPCE 689 EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Abolishing Operation . Answer: A motivating operation in which an
individual is given access to a reinforcer; decreasing the reinforcer's
effectiveness.
◉ Audience . Answer: Someone who provides reinforcement for a
speaker's verbal behavior.
◉ Behavior-Altering Effect . Answer: Either (a) an increase in the
current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus,
object, or event, called an evocative effect; or (b) a decrease in the
current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus,
object, or event, called an abative effect.
◉ Combinatiorial Entailment . Answer: Refers to the ability to combine
mutually related events into a relational network under forms of
contextual control that can include arbitrary contextual cues.
◉ Codic . Answer: This verbal operant has point-to-point
correspondence, no formal similarity, and immediately follows a verbal
stimulus.
, ◉ Copying a Text . Answer: An elementary verbal operant involving a
written response that is evoked by a written verbal discriminative
stimulus that has formal similarity and a history of generalized
reinforcement.
◉ Echoic Behavior . Answer: An elementary verbal operant involving a
vocal response that is evoked by a vocal verbal SD that has formal
similarity between an auditory verbal stimulus and an auditory verbal
response product, and a history of generalized reinforcement.
◉ Covert Behavior . Answer: Private/unobservable to a third party.
◉ Establishing Operation . Answer: A motivating operation that
increases the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a
reinforcer.
◉ Evocative Effect . Answer: An increase in the current frequency of
behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event
whose reinforcing effectiveness depends on the same motivating
operation.
◉ Formal Control . Answer: exists whenever a controlling variable
evokes a response and there is point-to-point correspondence between
the controlling variable and the response.
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Abolishing Operation . Answer: A motivating operation in which an
individual is given access to a reinforcer; decreasing the reinforcer's
effectiveness.
◉ Audience . Answer: Someone who provides reinforcement for a
speaker's verbal behavior.
◉ Behavior-Altering Effect . Answer: Either (a) an increase in the
current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus,
object, or event, called an evocative effect; or (b) a decrease in the
current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus,
object, or event, called an abative effect.
◉ Combinatiorial Entailment . Answer: Refers to the ability to combine
mutually related events into a relational network under forms of
contextual control that can include arbitrary contextual cues.
◉ Codic . Answer: This verbal operant has point-to-point
correspondence, no formal similarity, and immediately follows a verbal
stimulus.
, ◉ Copying a Text . Answer: An elementary verbal operant involving a
written response that is evoked by a written verbal discriminative
stimulus that has formal similarity and a history of generalized
reinforcement.
◉ Echoic Behavior . Answer: An elementary verbal operant involving a
vocal response that is evoked by a vocal verbal SD that has formal
similarity between an auditory verbal stimulus and an auditory verbal
response product, and a history of generalized reinforcement.
◉ Covert Behavior . Answer: Private/unobservable to a third party.
◉ Establishing Operation . Answer: A motivating operation that
increases the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a
reinforcer.
◉ Evocative Effect . Answer: An increase in the current frequency of
behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event
whose reinforcing effectiveness depends on the same motivating
operation.
◉ Formal Control . Answer: exists whenever a controlling variable
evokes a response and there is point-to-point correspondence between
the controlling variable and the response.
