Concepts and PrinciplesDifficulty 2/5
A child who is thirsty says 'water' and is given water. Which verbal operant is this?
- AIntraverbal
- BEchoic
- CTact
- DMand
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Correct: D. A mand is evoked by a motivating operation and specifies its own reinforcer. Thirst is the EO and water is the specified reinforcer.
- C — A tact is evoked by a nonverbal stimulus and reinforced by generalized reinforcement.
- A — An intraverbal is evoked by verbal behavior without point-to-point correspondence.
- B — An echoic has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with a verbal model.