Verbal Operants
Language Elements
Language Acquisition Models
100

This verbal operant requires motivation and access to the specific item requested. 

What is a mand?

100

Sender, shared intent and means and a receiver are needed for this

What is communication 

100

This model includes verbal operants and founded by B.F. Skinner 

What is behavioral model?

200

This verbal operant is also known as labeling items

What is a tact?
200

This is the neuromuscular act of producing sounds used in language

What is speech?

200

This model included the idea that language was innate and hardwired at birth for humans

What is Nativist Model?

300

This verbal operant requires a vocal response and does not have point to point correspondence. An example include fill in the blank songs (e.g. Twinkle twinkle little....)

What is an intraverbal 

300

This is the smallest unit of sound

What is a morpheme?
300

This model focuses on language being learned through exposure to communication interactions

What is Social interactionists model?

400

Amy sees a cat walking by and says out loud "cat". Saying cat is this type of verbal operant

What is a tact

400

This is the study of the sound system of language

What is phonology?

400

This model is the contemporary model with an emphasis on executive functioning and decision making processes in the brain.

What is information processing?

500

Gary has been eating hot cheetos all day. Suddenly he gives the PECS icon for "water" to his mom. Mom brings him his water. Asking for water is this type of verbal operant. 

What is a mand?

500

THis is the study of how meaning is attached to words and sentences of langauge

What is semantics?

500

this model focuses on the meaning of language first before the structure and arrangment of language

What is semantic cognitive?