Verbal Operants
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What is an echoic?
The skills we errorlessly teach
What are targets?
Definition of a mand
What is a request/ask/command/demand?
This happens after a behavior occurs
What is a consequence?
The term for better responding gets better reinforcement
What is differential reinforcement?
Naming or labeling things you detect through your senses
What is a tact?
Another term for skills we refer to as "easies"
What are knowns?
Types of mands recorded when collecting mand frequency data
What are prompted and unprompted mands?
The abbreviation for this term is SD
What is a discriminative stimulus?
The hub for known skills and dates of introduction and mastery
What are skills tracking sheets?
To pair items with similar characteristics
What is match-to-sample?
These are done each day prior to teaching sessions
What are cold probes?
Being able to ask for you want, leads to a reduction in this.
What is problem behavior?
Increases the future probability of behavior
What is reinforcement?
To errorlessly teach this operant, a full physical prompt is the first step
What is a motor imitation?
A synonym for this term is "mimetic"
What is motor imitation?
These are the steps in errorless teaching
What are prompt, transfer, distract, check?
Too little of something
What is deprivation?
A description of behavior
What is measurable and observable?
This prompt offers the most independence for a learner
What is a visual prompt?
Conversational operant
What is an intraverbal?
Unpredictable reinforcement; leads to strong and steady responding
What is a variable ratio?
The antecedent condition required for manding.
What is a motivating operation/motivation?
When a previously reinforced behavior is no longer reinforced
What is extinction?
A conditioned motivating operation-transitive (CMO-T) establishes the value of another item (think about needing a key for a lock) and was discussed as part of this type of instructional session
What is a manding session?