Selfinstruction is a type of selfmanagement strategy where an individual provides verbal prompts or cues to themselves to guide encourage or evoke a specific behavior It is an automatic process where ones own verbal behavior functions as an antecedent to influence their subsequent actions often to initiate or maintain a desired response Joannes verbalizations are not directed at another person rather they are selfdirected and designed to prompt and sustain her own climbing behavior An intraverbal is a verbal operant where the response is evoked by a verbal stimulus and there is no pointtopoint correspondence between the stimulus and the response eg answering a question or filling in the blank It typically involves social mediation Listener behavior refers to nonverbal behavior that occurs in response to the verbal behavior of others eg following instructions complying with requests It is also socially mediated Selfmonitoring involves systematically observing and recording ones own behavior or progress towards a goal often with the intent to change the behavior which is different from simply delivering a verbal prompt to oneself to act