One’s own behavior and self-awareness

One’s own behavior and self-awareness

Chapter 12
1. What is the relationship between tacting one’s own behavior and self-awareness? (p. 314)
2. What is the term “autoclitic” designed to suggest? (p. 315)
3. There are different types of autoclitics: (a) those which inform the listener of the type of verbal behavior they accompany, (b) those which describe the state of strength of a verbal response, (c) those which describe the relations between responses and other verbal behavior, and (d) those which indicate the emotional or motivational conditions of the speaker (pp. 313-321). What is a descriptive autoclitic? What does it describe? (p. 315 = see also p. 322).
4. What is a negative autoclitic? (p. 317)
5. List several different examples of autoclitics which specifically mand listener behavior. (pp. 321-322)
6. What is a qualifying autoclitic? What does it qualify? (p. 322)
7. How might a child learn to say “not”? (pp. 323-324)
8. Give a few examples of a quantifying autoclitic. (p. 329-330)

Chapter 13
1. What is a relational autoclitic? (pp. 333-334)
2. How are autoclitic frames established and how do they function? (p. 336)
3. Explain the autoclitic function of
a. “but” as in “All but Henry left the room.”
b. “and” as in “This for you and me.”
c. “if” as in “if it does not rain, we shall go.”
d. “all” as in “All honest men are happy.” p. 341-342)
e. the final “s”, “’s” and “s’” in common English nouns (these have non-autoclitic functions, too)

Chapter 14
1. What two types of responses in the listener/reader are evoked by verbal stimuli? (p. 357)
2. You are hiking in the rainforest and are told by the guide, “green caterpillars with yellow heads are extremely poisonous.” A green caterpillar with a yellow head falls onto your arm. What kind of eliciting function will this nonverbal stimulus now have?
3. You are told, “when the light shuts off the oven is ready.” In what way does this alter the function of the light? What type of conditioning history might account for this effect? (p. 361-362)
Chomsky
What is Chomsky’s rebuttal to Skinner regarding the assigned material this week? (pp. 53-54)
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