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#1. A behavior analyst is training a client to tact ‘cookie.’ The client is not currently deprived of cookies. Which of the following procedures most accurately describes the correct way to establish ‘cookie’ as a tact?

Deliver a cookie as specific reinforcement when the client says ‘cookie’ after being deprived of cookies.

Provide a generalized conditioned reinforcer when the client says ‘cookie’ in response to someone else saying ‘I want a cookie.’

Provide a generalized conditioned reinforcer when the client says ‘cookie’ at any point during the day, regardless of the cookie’s presence.

Provide a generalized conditioned reinforcer when the client says ‘cookie’ in the presence of a cookie.

A tact is a verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus SD and its reinforcement is generalized conditioned reinforcement GCR In this scenario the nonverbal SD is the cookie itself Option D correctly describes this relationship the cookie is present nonverbal SD the client says cookie and a GCR is delivered This strengthens the association between the nonverbal stimulus and the verbal response Option A describes a mand which is evoked by a motivating operation MO and results in specific reinforcement the cookie itself if deprived Option B describes an intraverbal or an echoic as the response is evoked by a verbal SD I want a cookie A tact however is not evoked by a verbal SD Option C describes noncontingent reinforcement or a response that is not under stimulus control of the cookies presence which would not establish a tact

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