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#1. A client, feeling very thirsty, points to a water bottle on the table and says, Water, please This verbal operant is simultaneously evoked by the motivating operation (thirst) and the non-verbal stimulus (the sight of the water bottle). How would this specific verbal behavior be most accurately classified according to B.F. Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior?
This question tests the understanding of an impure tact which is a nuanced concept in verbal behavior An impure tact occurs when a verbal operant is evoked by both a motivating operation MO and a nonverbal discriminative stimulus SD The response has properties of both a mand evoked by MO indicating a desire or need and a tact evoked by a nonverbal stimulus identifying an object In the given example thirst the MO increases the value of water as a reinforcer and evokes behavior to obtain it while the sight of the water bottle the nonverbal SD prompts the labeling response The inclusion of please often suggests a mand component but the concurrent presence of the nonverbal SD water bottle makes it an impure tact Essentially its a tact that has been strengthened by an MO A pure mand is evoked solely by a motivating operation eg saying Water when thirsty without seeing any water or cues A pure tact is evoked solely by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus eg saying Water when asked What do you see while looking at water without any MO for water An echoic is evoked by a verbal SD and involves repeating the verbal behavior with pointtopoint correspondence and formal similarity
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