Behaviorists, such as Sidman, who conducted the early experiments on stimulus equivalence were attempting to explain which phenomenon?

Effective use of functional communication training includes

An FBA can be considered a form of reinforcer assessment.

Which of the following is/are role(s) that a listener plays in a verbal episode? The listener may

In Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior, the meaning of words is classified based on their

A behavior therapist working with a student asks the student to select the picture of an apple from a comparison array. This type of training procedure is an example of teaching

The self-management tactic to which Skinner referred to as “doing something else” is a key element of

Through equivalence-based instruction, a learner forms four classes of three visual stimuli each. If you teach them to tact one of those stimuli, you would expect each of the other stimuli in the class to evoke the same response.

Which type of verbal operant is controlled by verbal SD s?

A BCBA was coaching a mother through a clean-up activity with her daughter. At one point, the mother instructed the daughter to give her an item and the daughter dropped to the floor and began crying. The BCBA asked the mother to get up, walk a few steps away from her daughter, and turn her back to the child. The mother did as asked and resumed interacting with her daughter after her daughter got up from the floor and stopped crying. This procedure most closely exemplifies