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#1. Joanna is conducting a Discrete Trial Training (DTT) session with her client. She presents the client with a picture of a tiger and verbally asks, ‘What is this?’ The client looks at the picture and vocally responds, ‘Elephant.’ Given this scenario, which type of verbal operant is the client primarily demonstrating, even though the response is incorrect?

Mand

Tact

Intraverbal

Echoic

A tact is a verbal operant that is under the functional control of a nonverbal discriminative stimulus eg an object picture event and is reinforced by generalized conditioned reinforcement In this scenario the picture of the tiger is the nonverbal SD and the clients vocal response Elephant is an attempt to name or label that stimulus Even though the response is incorrect the controlling variable for the verbal behavior is the nonverbal stimulus the picture making it a tact A mand is a request that is under the control of a motivating operation MO and is reinforced by the specific item or action requested An intraverbal is a verbal response to another verbal stimulus without pointtopoint correspondence or formal similarity eg answering a question or filling in the blank An echoic is a verbal response that has pointtopoint correspondence and formal similarity with a verbal stimulus ie repeating what someone else says

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