11.4 Echoic Behavior Example #1
Speaking non-technically, echoic behavior involves saying what you have just heard someone say. Saying “echoic” as the result of hearing someone say “echoic” is an example of echoic behavior.
Echoic Behavior
A form of verbal behavior with the following features:
The response is vocal
It is controlled by a prior auditory verbal stimulus
There is point-to-point correspondence between the stimulus and the response
There is formal similarity between the prior stimulus and the response-product
Formal and dynamic characteristics of both the stimulus and the response
The “meaning” of either the stimulus or the response
Whether or not the current response is reinforced
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