Intraverbal behavior is one of Skinner's primary verbal operants, defined as a verbal response that is controlled by a prior verbal stimulus — another person's speech or the learner's own prior verbalizations — without a point-to-point correspondence between the controlling stimulus and the response. When a child fills in the blank 'Twinkle, twinkle, little ___,' answers 'What sound does a dog make?' with 'Woof,' or responds to 'What do you do when you're hungry?' with 'Eat,' they are demonstrating intraverbal behavior.
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