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#1. A behavior analyst is working with a client whose mother wants the client to be able to communicate when they are experiencing pain. The mother’s goal is for the client to identify or label the sensation of pain as it occurs. According to B.F. Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior, what type of verbal operant is the mother attempting to teach the client to emit?
A tact is a verbal operant under the antecedent control of a nonverbal stimulus and it results in generalized conditioned reinforcement When a person identifies or labels a sensation like pain eg saying my head hurts when feeling a headache they are tacting a private event Private events are stimuli that occur within an organisms skin and are only accessible directly to the organism itself eg thoughts feelings bodily sensations The mothers goal is for the client to label the presence of pain which is the definition of a tact for a private event Option A is incorrect because a mand is a verbal operant under the control of a motivating operation and specifies its reinforcer eg Please give me pain medication Option B is incorrect because an intraverbal is a verbal operant under the control of a verbal stimulus and does not have pointtopoint correspondence with the evoking stimulus eg responding to How do you feel with I have a terrible headache might contain an intraverbal component but simply labeling current pain is a tact Option D is incorrect because an echoic response involves repeating a verbal stimulus that was just heard which is not the objective described
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