This is likely due to echoic behavior.
- The brother's actions, which included asking him to repeat what the speaker said while claiming to listen but actually doing something else, were probably caused by echoic behavior. He can repeat the final few phrases, though.
- Echoic verbal behavior is defined as being in point-to-point correlation with the verbal stimulus that came before it. It is a vocal "echo," to use laypeople's terminology, of what came immediately before it. To teach additional verbal behaviors like manding, intraverbals, and tact, there are several behavior analytic techniques that include echoics! In the early stages of language acquisition, the ability to echo words is essential.
- A linguistic action is referred to as an echoic reaction if it has a point-to-point correlation with the vocal or verbal stimulus that inspired it.
Thus the answer is echoic behavior.
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