ABSTRACT
Other verbal responses also depend on discriminative stimuli. Intraverbal behavior is a class of verbal operants regulated by verbal discriminative stimuli. Verbal stimuli arise from verbal behavior; a verbal response by a speaker (“one, two, three, . . .”) may be a stimulus for a subsequent verbal operant by the same speaker (“four”). When a verbal response (“Mary”) exactly replicates the verbal stimulus (say “Mary”), we may say there is correspondence between them. In this case, the verbal behavior is defined as echoic (see below). Intraverbal behavior, however, has no point-to-point correspondence between the verbal stimulus (“jack, queen, . . .”) and the response (“king”).
