title: The effects of tact and listener training on the emergence of bidirectional intra verbal relations.
abstract: We evaluated the effects of 2 types of training on the emergence of bidirectional intraverbal relations with 4 typically developing children. Tact training involved reinforcing foreign-language vocalizations in the presence of visual stimuli, and listener training involved reinforcing selections of visual stimuli following vocal presentations of foreign-language words. Intraverbal relations were tested by instructing participants to vocalize native-language equivalents of foreign-language words or vice versa. Both types of training produced increases in intraverbal responding, but the emergent relations were not always bidirectional.
authors.affiliation: University of Akureyri. a.petursdottir@tcu.edu
authors.forename: Anna Ingeborg
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Petursdottir
authors.forename: Alma Rún
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Olafsdóttir
authors.forename: Berglind
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Aradóttir
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D012938:Social Perception; D013663:Teaching; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception