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#1. Tony is hosting a board game night at his house. When his friend Cliff arrives, Tony, looking directly at Cliff, asks, ‘What game would you like to play tonight, Cliff?’ Cliff immediately responds, ‘I want to play Cards Against Humanity.’ In this specific conversational exchange, considering the immediate antecedent and consequence, which verbal operant best describes Cliff’s response, and what is its primary controlling variable?
To correctly identify the verbal operant its crucial to analyze the controlling variableswhat evokes the response and what reinforces it In this scenario Intraverbal Cliffs response I want to play Cards Against Humanity is an intraverbal An intraverbal is a verbal response evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus SD and does not have pointtopoint correspondence with the evoking stimulus In this case Tonys verbal question What game would you like to play tonight Cliff serves as the verbal SD Cliffs response is related to the question but is not a direct repetition no pointtopoint correspondence and is not primarily evoked by a strong current deprivation or a nonverbal stimulus Conversational exchanges like answering questions are prime examples of intraverbal behavior The reinforcement is typically generalized conditioned reinforcement such as the conversation continuing or the question being adequately answered Why other options are incorrect Mand A mand is a verbal operant evoked by a motivating operation MO and reinforced by the specific reinforcer named While Cliff might want to play Cards Against Humanity suggesting an MO his response is directly prompted by Tonys question If Cliff had spontaneously said Cards Against Humanity without being asked driven purely by a desire to play it would be a mand But the presence of the verbal SD from Tony makes it an intraverbal as the verbal SD is the primary evoking variable not solely the MO Tact A tact is a verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and reinforced by generalized conditioned reinforcement For Cliffs response to be a tact he would need to be seeing the Cards Against Humanity game box a nonverbal SD and labeling it In this scenario there is no indication of a nonverbal SD evoking his response Echoic An echoic is a verbal operant evoked by a verbal SD that has pointtopoint correspondence and formal similarity with the response If Tony had said Cards Against Humanity and Cliff had repeated Cards Against Humanity that would be an echoic Cliffs response is an answer to a question not a repetition of the exact words so there is no pointtopoint correspondence or formal similarity
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