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A Deeper Understanding of Verbal Behavior

A Deeper Understanding of Verbal Behavior. Justin Daigle, MA, BCBA, LBA Program Director. Overview. Currently, you are familiar with the concept of verbal behavior However, you have no way of systematically assessing verbalizations There are also other Verbal Operants

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A Deeper Understanding of Verbal Behavior

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  1. A Deeper Understandingof Verbal Behavior Justin Daigle, MA, BCBA, LBA Program Director

  2. Overview • Currently, you are familiar with the concept of verbal behavior • However, you have no way of systematically assessing verbalizations • There are also other Verbal Operants that you have not be introduced to.

  3. Presentation Goals • Learn formal definitions for Mand, Tact, Echoic, andIntraverbal • Be introduced to Autoclitic, Dictation, Transcription, and Textual • Learn how to assess Verbal Operants

  4. Page 534 UMO/CMO Mand Yes Non-Verbal SD Tact Yes No No Point-to-Point Correspondence Verbal SD No Yes Intraverbal Yes Yes Echoic Formal Similarity No Transcription Textual

  5. UMO and CMO • Unconditioned MO – A neutral event that functions as a motivation operation. An example would be “being hungry” is an unconditioned MO for food consumption. • Conditioned MO – A neutral event that functions as a motivation operation after it has been conditioned to do so. An example would be “being poor” is a conditioned MO for money.

  6. Point-to-Point Correspondence • Point-to-Point Correspondence – When the beginning, middle, and end of a verbal stimulus matches the beginning, middle, and end of a verbal response. “C a t” Speaker: “C a t” Listener: “C a t”

  7. Formal Similarity • Formal Similarity – When a stimulus and a behavior share the same medium (such as written to written) as well as physical resemblance. Example: Speaker: “Write the word ‘cat’”. (spoken) Listener writes the word ‘cat’. (written) The word changed formal similarity.

  8. Relearning the Basics Mand, Tact, Echoic & Intraverbal

  9. Page 534 UMO/CMO Mand Yes Non-Verbal SD Tact Yes No No Point-to-Point Correspondence Verbal SD No Yes Intraverbal Yes Yes Echoic Formal Similarity No Transcription Textual

  10. A Hint • The correct definitions of the verbal operants will always begin with… “A verbal operant that…”

  11. Mand • Mand– A verbal operant that has a UMO/CMO and specific reinforcement Broken Down: 1) Only Verbal Operant with a MO 2) Has to have specific reinforcement

  12. Question • If a child says “candy” and you give him a candy, is it a mand?

  13. Answer • Before you might have said “yes”. • Now you should hesitate. • Did the child have an MO for the candy? • Did the child eat the candy? • What if the child handed the candy back to you? • Manding requires an MO!

  14. Question • A child has an MO for candy and says “candy” and is praised for using his words. Because you need more tasks in your schedule of reinforcement, you ask the child to perform three more task, then Deliver candy. Was the child saying “candy” a mand?

  15. Answer • No one knows… • The immediate consequence of the word was NOT the specific reinforcer • However, the specific reinforcer was delivered at the end of the schedule because it was manded for. • Going back, what’s abetter way?

  16. Tact • Tact – A verbal operant that does not have a UMO/CMO but has a non-verbal discriminative stimulus. (This is a pure tact) Broken Down: 1) No MO 2) Non-Verbal SD

  17. Intraverbal • Intraverbal – A verbal operant that does not have a UMO/CMO, but does have a verbal discriminative stimulus with no point-to-point correspondence. Broken Down: 1) No MO 2) Verbal SD 3) No PTP Correspondence

  18. A Note on Intraverbals • RFFC, EFFC, Fill-in-the-Blanks, etc are all technically intraverbals.

  19. Echoics • Echoics – A verbal operant that does not have aUMO/CMO, but does have a verbal discriminative stimulus with point-to-pointcorrespondence and formal similarity Broken Down: 1) No MO 2) Verbal SD 3) PTP Correspondence 4) Formal Similarity

  20. Introduction to HigherLevel Verbal Operants Textual, Transcription, Dictation, and Autoclitics

  21. Textual • Textual – A verbal operant that does not have a UMO/CMO, but does have a verbal discriminative stimulus with point-to-point correspondence but does not have formal similarity Broken Down: 1) No MO 2) Verbal SD 3) PTP Correspondence 4) No Formal Similarity

  22. Textual (What you need to know) • Textual – When the listeners writes down what the speaker says Keep in mind that this really doesn’t have to be written down. Textual only requires a change in formal similarity from the verbal SD.

  23. A Note on Textual • There are two types of textual • Dictation (Speaker’s Behavior) • Transcription (Listener’s Behavior)

  24. Autoclitic (Skinner’s version) • Autoclitic– Verbal Behavior about Verbal Behavior. - Anyone want to take a guess what that means in the real world?

  25. Autoclitic (Justin’s version) • Autoclitic– Words that modify other words - Fillers (ex: “Um”, “Like”) - Structure needed for grammar and/or syntax (ex: “But”, “The”) - Modifiers such as adjectives and adverbs (ex: “Big”, “Blue”)

  26. Questions • Use your flow chart to attempt the given exercise (worth 30 minutes if you complete). • Pay close attention to 29-35

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