Unit 7 And 8

Front 1

What does Skinner mean when he says that theanalysis has, up to this point, reduced the role of the speaker as a causalagent determining his own verbal behavior (pp. 311-312)?

Back 1

It reduces the role of the speaker as a causal agent because environmental variables control variables.

Front 2

What is the basis of Skinner’s unwillingness toattribute complex behavior to a controlling self or personality (p. 312)? How does he interpret the concept of the selfin terms of multiple repertoires of behavior (p. 313)?

Back 2

Skinner says that these terms are just behavior. Multiple repertoires are emitted in different contexts. When talking about personality or self, it is just different response patterns being emitted.

Front 3

What is the relationship between tacting one’sown behavior and self-awareness (p. 314)?

Back 3

Tacting your own behavior is self awareness.You become self aware when you bring covert visualization under SD control.

Front 4

What is an autoclitic? Give several different examples, and explainwhy each is an autoclitic (p. 315)?

Back 4

Autoclitic-A verbal operant maintained by the effect it has on the reinforcement of other verbal operants.

Front 5

Descriptive autoclitic which indicate the emotional ormotivational conditions of the speaker (pp. 313-321).

Back 5

D. Autoclitic occasioned by stimuli associated with emotional responding

Front 6

Descriptive autoclitic those which inform the listener of the type of verbal behavior they accompany,

Back 6

A. I see informs the listener of what comes next; it's under control of stimuli associated with other verbal operants

Front 7

Descriptive autoclitic which describe the state of strength of a verbal response

Back 7

B. Stimuli that are associated with the response are either highly likely or unlikely (I guess, I imagine)

Front 8

Descriptive autoclitic which describe the relations between responses and other verbal behavior,

Back 8

C. Your responding as a listener occasions the response "I agree" or "I disagree"

Front 9

Descriptive autoclitic

Back 9

An autoclitic under discriminative control of stimuli associated with accompanying responses

Front 10

Discuss several different examples ofautoclitics which specifically mand listener behavior (pp. 321-322).

Back 10

"Listen" mands for attention. Ditto, vice versa

Specifically act as mands and occasion compliance of the listener

Front 11

What is a qualiflying autoclitic? What does it qualify (p. 322)?

Back 11

Qualifying autoclitic is an autoclitic that modifies the intensity or direction of the listener's response. They qualify tacts

Front 12

Why is negation considered a qualifyingautoclitic? Illustrate your answer withsome examples (pp. 322-326).

Back 12

Negation reverses the direction of the listener's response to a verbal stimulus. (Bring me that vs don't bring me that)

Front 13

What special problem in the analysis of verbalbehavior is raised by such responses as, “There is no orange juice on thetable”? What solution does Skinnerpropose to this problem (pp. 322-323)?

Back 13

The absence of a stimulus is not a stimulus that occasions responding. The passage of time since the question in the absence of a response occurring occasions the response "no".

Front 14

Explain why expressions containing “not” andaffixes such as “-less” may not indicate any autoclitic activity in a giveninstance. Why may genuine negation be asrare as genuine metaphorical or metonymical extension (pp. 325-326)?.

Back 14

They may not be autoclitics at all; just intraverbals. If it becomes a standard response, it isn't an autoclitic.

Front 15

Why is assertion considered a qualifying tact?

Back 15

It increases the strength of the listener's response

Front 16

Assertion which indicate thatthe response is emitted as a tact

Back 16

A. That IS a table

Front 17

Assertion which indicate thatthe response is emitted as an intraverbal

Back 17

The order of the words "BIG BAD ____" "Red, White, and ____"

Front 18

Assertion which indicate that certainlimits of stimulus control have been respected

Back 18

Looks like a, wolf-like

Front 19

Assertion which indicate the kind or degreeof tact extension

Back 19

kind of, sort of

Front 20

Assertion which indicate theprobability or correspondence between a future event and the controllingstimulus

Back 20

Perhaps we will where will addresses tense and assertion, perhaps is probabilistic

Front 21

What is a quantifyingautoclitic? Give and explain several different examples (pp. 329-330).

Back 21

A quantifying autoclitic is an autoclitic under discriminative control of numerical properties of stimuli that associated with the accompanying response.

Front 22

Compare and contrastmanipulative autoclitics and relational autoclitics.

Back 22

Manipulative autoclitics require responding on the part of the listener before effective action is occasioned. Relational autoclitics are autoclitics in which relations among verbal stimuli occasion differential responding in the listener.

Front 23

Operant

Back 23

Defined by its maintaining reinforcer

Front 24

Discriminated operant

Back 24

Defined in terms of stimuli occasioning it as well as the reinforcer maintaining it

Front 25

Conditional Discrimination

Back 25

Responding in accordance to a 4 or more term contingency

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Rule Governed Behavior

Back 26

Behavior occasioned by a conditional verbal discriminative stimulus maintained by SR+ for rule following as a higher order operant

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Contingency shaped behavior

Back 27

behavior that is purely a function of its consequences

Front 28

Collateral Consequences

Back 28

Supplemental reinforcement encounter by rule following

Front 29

How can rule-governed behavior be manipulated? How is this differentthan modifying contingency-shaped behavior?

Back 29

Manipulate antecedent and consequences, or both. With rule governed behavior, you can get responding that you would never get with contingency shaping (terrorist example). Also, if you have a rule that is bad, and receives socially mediated SR+, you may need to uproot them from the environment.

Front 30

Describe a situation in which responding is related to two sets ofcontingencies.

Back 30

Studying

Front 31

What does it mean when you say that, “the solution to a novel problem isnot itself entirely nove

Back 31

Response sequence that you go through to solve the problem is not novel, all the steps have been previously established.