SPCE 689 Exam QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Formal properties of language - CORRECT ANSWER can be classified by a description of the
verbal utterances emitted
Phonemes - CORRECT ANSWER individual speech sounds that compose a word
Morphemes - CORRECT ANSWER units with an individual piece of meaning
Lexicon - CORRECT ANSWER total collection of words that make up a given language
Syntax - CORRECT ANSWER organization of words, phrases, or clauses in sentences
Grammar - CORRECT ANSWER adherence to established conventions of a given language
Function - CORRECT ANSWER second type of classification system involves the different
functions that a word may have.
Verbal behavior - CORRECT ANSWER Behavior reinforced through the mediation of another
person who has been specifically trained to provide such reinforcement
Verbal episode - CORRECT ANSWER a speaker emits any type of verbal response in any form
and a listener serves as an audience for a speaker, provides reinforcement for a speaker and responds
in specific ways to the speaker's verbal behavior
Topography based verbal behavior - CORRECT ANSWER the unit of verbal behavior can be
described as an increased strength of a distinguishable topography given some specific controlling
variable
Selection based verbal behavior - CORRECT ANSWER the unit of verbal behavior can be
described as an increased control of the pointing response by a particular stimulus as a result of a
different stimulus...or establishing operation
, Behavioral cusps - CORRECT ANSWER any behavior change that brings the organism's
behavior into contact with new contingencies that have even more far reaching consequences. A
beginning of a new level of learning for a child
Elementary verbal operants - CORRECT ANSWER duplic, mand, tact, intraverbal, codic.
Mand - CORRECT ANSWER a type of verbal behavior in which the form of a response is
under the functional control of a motivation operation and a history of specific reinforcement
Tact - CORRECT ANSWER verbal behavior in which the form of a response Is under the
functional control of a nonverbal discriminative stimulus
Duplic - CORRECT ANSWER three types of these relations: echoic, motor imitation, and
copying text. They all have the same defining features but have unique topographical features.
Duplic echoic - CORRECT ANSWER a type of duplic verbal behavior in which the form of a
vocal response is under the functional control of an auditory verbal SD that has formal similarity
between the stimulus and the response product, and has a history of generalist Sr
Formal similarity - CORRECT ANSWER occurs when the controlling verbal stimulus and the
response product are in the same sense mode and the stimulus and the response product resemble each
other in the physical sense of resemblance
Motor imitation - CORRECT ANSWER a type of duplic verbal behavior in which the form of a
motor response is under the functional control of a visual verbal Sd that has formal similarity and a
history of generalized Sr
Copying text - CORRECT ANSWER a type of verbal behavior in which the form of a
transcriptive response is under the functional control of a textual verbal Sd that has formal similarity
and a history of generalized Sr
Codic - CORRECT ANSWER there are two types of these relations: textual and taking
dictation. Textual behavior for speech is emitting vocal responses controlled by written verbal Sd,
while taking dictation is editing transcriptive and spelling behaviors controlled by vocal verbal Sds.
CORRECT ANSWERS
Formal properties of language - CORRECT ANSWER can be classified by a description of the
verbal utterances emitted
Phonemes - CORRECT ANSWER individual speech sounds that compose a word
Morphemes - CORRECT ANSWER units with an individual piece of meaning
Lexicon - CORRECT ANSWER total collection of words that make up a given language
Syntax - CORRECT ANSWER organization of words, phrases, or clauses in sentences
Grammar - CORRECT ANSWER adherence to established conventions of a given language
Function - CORRECT ANSWER second type of classification system involves the different
functions that a word may have.
Verbal behavior - CORRECT ANSWER Behavior reinforced through the mediation of another
person who has been specifically trained to provide such reinforcement
Verbal episode - CORRECT ANSWER a speaker emits any type of verbal response in any form
and a listener serves as an audience for a speaker, provides reinforcement for a speaker and responds
in specific ways to the speaker's verbal behavior
Topography based verbal behavior - CORRECT ANSWER the unit of verbal behavior can be
described as an increased strength of a distinguishable topography given some specific controlling
variable
Selection based verbal behavior - CORRECT ANSWER the unit of verbal behavior can be
described as an increased control of the pointing response by a particular stimulus as a result of a
different stimulus...or establishing operation
, Behavioral cusps - CORRECT ANSWER any behavior change that brings the organism's
behavior into contact with new contingencies that have even more far reaching consequences. A
beginning of a new level of learning for a child
Elementary verbal operants - CORRECT ANSWER duplic, mand, tact, intraverbal, codic.
Mand - CORRECT ANSWER a type of verbal behavior in which the form of a response is
under the functional control of a motivation operation and a history of specific reinforcement
Tact - CORRECT ANSWER verbal behavior in which the form of a response Is under the
functional control of a nonverbal discriminative stimulus
Duplic - CORRECT ANSWER three types of these relations: echoic, motor imitation, and
copying text. They all have the same defining features but have unique topographical features.
Duplic echoic - CORRECT ANSWER a type of duplic verbal behavior in which the form of a
vocal response is under the functional control of an auditory verbal SD that has formal similarity
between the stimulus and the response product, and has a history of generalist Sr
Formal similarity - CORRECT ANSWER occurs when the controlling verbal stimulus and the
response product are in the same sense mode and the stimulus and the response product resemble each
other in the physical sense of resemblance
Motor imitation - CORRECT ANSWER a type of duplic verbal behavior in which the form of a
motor response is under the functional control of a visual verbal Sd that has formal similarity and a
history of generalized Sr
Copying text - CORRECT ANSWER a type of verbal behavior in which the form of a
transcriptive response is under the functional control of a textual verbal Sd that has formal similarity
and a history of generalized Sr
Codic - CORRECT ANSWER there are two types of these relations: textual and taking
dictation. Textual behavior for speech is emitting vocal responses controlled by written verbal Sd,
while taking dictation is editing transcriptive and spelling behaviors controlled by vocal verbal Sds.
