38.3 Review of Establishing Operations
Sometimes the presence of an establishing operation for some form of non-generalized reinforcement may partially control the form of the response. In this case, the response of the speaker can be said to be partially a tact and partially a mand.
Establishing Operation
An environmental change or event with the following features:
Precedes the response to which it is functionally related
Increases the effectiveness of a particular stimulus change as reinforcement
The type of environmental event
The cause of the environmental event
The type of stimulus that gains reinforcing effectiveness
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