Intraverbal
Also called: conversation, answering questions, fill-in
Definition
A verbal operant evoked by someone else's verbal behavior where the response does not match it in form — answering a question, finishing a phrase, continuing a conversation. Reinforced socially. Most conversation and most academic responding is intraverbal.
In plain language
Answering a question or keeping a conversation going. Your words are set off by someone else's words, but you do not repeat them.
Example
Asked "What do you eat with?", the learner says "a spoon."
Not intraverbal
Asked to say "spoon," the learner says "spoon." That matches the model, so it is an echoic.
Commonly confused with
See also
Written from
- skinner-1957
Written from Skinner (1957). No textbook glossary consulted.
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