Concepts and Principles
Verbal behavior and derived relations
Classify verbal operants and derived or emergent relations, including how multiple control and generative responding affect language and learning programs.
How this shows up in scenario questions
- 1Identify the verbal operant from antecedent and consequence relations.
- 2Recognize multiple control in verbal responses.
- 3Interpret emergent relations or generative performance after teaching.
Common misconceptions
- Classifying verbal behavior by form only.
- Assuming all spoken responses are tacts.
- Treating emergent relations as directly trained responses.
Distractor patterns
- Choose tact when the response is controlled by an MO.
- Ignore the consequence maintaining the verbal response.
- Assume matching-to-sample automatically proves all relations.
Related terms
mandstactsintraverbalsmultiple controlemergent relationsgenerative performance