Editing Verbal Behavior (section)

==Summary of verbal operants==
The following table<ref name="Frost">{{cite journal |first1=Lori |last1=Frost |first2=Andy |last2=Bondy |title=A common language, Using B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior for assessment and treatment of communication disabilities in SLP-ABA |journal=Journal of Speech and Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis |year=2006 |url=http://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2014-51875-003.pdf}}</ref> summarizes the new verbal operants in the analysis of verbal behavior.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Precondition
!Verbal Operant
!Consequence
!Example
|-
|Motivating Operation
|Mand
|Directly Effective
|A child comes into the kitchen where a mother is, and says: '''"I want milk"'''. The mother opens the refrigerator and gives the child milk.
|-
|Feature of the physical environment
|Tact
|Social
|A child looks out of the window, turns to his mother and says: '''"It is hot today."''' The mother says, "Right!"
|-
|Verbal behavior of another person
|Intraverbal
|Social
|A mother asks her daughter: "What grade did you get in math?" The daughter replies, '''"An A."''' The mother says: "Very good!"
|-
|Verbal behavior of another person
|Echoic
|Social
|A teacher says to a student: "Behavior in German is ''Verhalten.''" The student repeats '''"Behavior is ''Verhalten''."''' The teacher says "Correct."
|-
|A person's own verbal behavior
|Autoclitic
|Directly Effective
|A child comes into his parents' bedroom at night and says "'''I think''' I am sick." The mother takes the child and brings him to a hospital.
|}