Introductory Concepts
Elementary Relationships
Extensions of Verbal Behavior
Multiple Controlling Relationships
Building on the Elementary Relationships
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12.4 Copying a Text Non-Example #1

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Writing the word “table” as a result of seeing “la mesa” written is NOT copying a text. Although the stimulus and the response are in the right modes, there is no point-to-point correspondence between them.

Copying a Text

A form of verbal behavior with the following features:

The response is writing or printing

The controlling variable is a response-product of someone’s previous writing behavior

There is point-to-point correspondence between the controlling variable and the response

There is formal similarity between the controlling variable and the response product

Formal and dynamic features of the response

Formal and dynamic features of the controlling variable

Whether or not the current response is reinforced

The “meaning” of either the stimulus or the response

A person writing on a blackboard with the word "la mesa".
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