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What is operant behavior

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Activities which operate upon the environment.

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Where are meanings to be found?

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They are to be found among the independent variables in a functional account, rather than as properties of the dependent variable.

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What is an operant

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Any unit of such behavior.

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What is the term operant concerned with.

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The prediction and control of a kind of behavior.

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What is a verbal repertoire?

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Response of various forms appear in his behavior from time to time in relation to identifiable conditions.

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What does a repertoire describe?

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The potential behavior of a speaker

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What is our basic datum

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Not the occurrence of a given response As such, but the probability that it will occur at a given time.

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What is the basic datum to e predicted and controlled?

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The probability that a verbal response of given form will occur at a given time.

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How does any operant require strength and continue to be maintained?

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When response are frequently followed by the event called reinforcement.

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When is the process of operant conditioning most conspicuous?

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When verbal behavior is first acquired.

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