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#1. A non-verbal girl with autism frequently experiences stomach pains. To help her communicate this internal state, her mom models and physically prompts her to point to her stomach with two fingers whenever she feels the onset of pain. Based on this description, what specific verbal operant is the mom primarily teaching the girl to engage in?

Mand for medicine or attention.

Tact a private event.

Use the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS).

Respond to intraverbal prompts.

Tacting is a verbal operant where an individual labels or names something in the environment or an internal state that they are experiencing in response to a nonverbal stimulus In this situation the nonverbal stimulus is the internal sensation of stomach pain which is a private event The mom is teaching the girl to label or identify this internal pain by pointing to her stomach This is a tact because the response pointing to stomach is under the control of the nonverbal stimulus the pain sensation It is not a mand because the girl is not asking or requesting for medicine attention or any other specific item or action It is not PECS as no pictures are involved in the communication It is also not an intraverbal which would involve responding to a verbal prompt eg answering a question like Where does it hurt by pointing

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