With copying a text, the visual response-product of what you have written can become the prior visual verbal stimulus in the copying a text relationship. This involves copying something that you have written.
A form of verbal behavior with the following features:
The response is writing or printing
The controlling variable is a response-product of someone’s previous writing behavior
There is point-to-point correspondence between the controlling variable and the response
There is formal similarity between the controlling variable and the response product
Formal and dynamic features of the response
Formal and dynamic features of the controlling variable
Whether or not the current response is reinforced
The “meaning” of either the stimulus or the response