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Behavior Theory

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Behavior is due to an interaction between genetic and environmental experience

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The experimental analysis of behavior

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Using experimentation to break down environment-behavior relations into principles of behavior

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Conditioning

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When an organism learns new ways of behaving in relation to environmental changes

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John B. Watson

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Focused on stimulus-response approach to behavior

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Thorndike

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Originated the Law of Effect, stating that behaviors become stronger and weaker based on consequences

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Private Behavior

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Behavior only accessible to the person doing it

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Operant

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A behavior that operates on the environment to produce an effect

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Learning

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The acquisition, maintenance, and change of an organism’s behavior as a result of lifetime events.

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Topography

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Physical shape or form of the behavior

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Single-subject research

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A single individual is exposed to the independent variable

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Phylogenic

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Behavior relations based on genetics

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Fixed action pattern

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Sequences of behavior phylogenic in origin

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Unconditioned response

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The behavior elicited by unconditioned stimulus

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Habituation

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Unconditioned response gradually declines with repeated presentation of unconditioned stimulus

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Ontogenetic

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Life history that contributes to behavior

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Respondent extinction

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Repeatedly present CS without US

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Spontaneous recovery

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Observation of an increase in the CR after respondent extinction

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Respondent generalization

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CR occurs with untrained stimuli

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Delayed conditioning

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CS is present a few seconds before US occurs

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Simultaneous conditioning

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CS in US presented at same time

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Trace conditioning

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CS presented and removed prior to presentation of US

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Backward conditioning

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US onset and offset occurs before CS Onset

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S Delta

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Antecedent signals reinforcement not available

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Free operant method

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Organism is free to respond or not respond over a period of time

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Conditioned reinforcer

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Event or stimulus effectiveness due to life history

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Continuous reinforcement

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Reinforcement after each response

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Resistance to extinction

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Operant behavior continues when placed on extinction

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Intermittent schedule of reinforcement

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Only reinforce some responses

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Interval schedule

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Reinforcement delivered based on time since last consequence

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Schedule of reinforcement

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How and when stimuli and consequences will be presented

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Resurgence

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Increase in behavioral variability during extinction

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Post reinforcement pause

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Pause in responding following a consequence

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Break point

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Highest ratio value completed on PR schedule

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Contingency management

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Systematic use of reinforcement to establish desired behavior

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Fixed Time

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Stimulus delivered based on time, response-independent

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Ratio schedule

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Reinforcement delivered based on number of responses

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Behavior momentum

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Behavior persists in presence of a stimulus despite disruption

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Aversive stimuli

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Environmental stimuli or events an organism escapes or avoids

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Overcorrection

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Positive punishment procedure involving practicing a response multiple times

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Timeout procedure

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Contingent removal of access to positive reinforcers after problem behavior

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Response cost

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Negative punishment procedure where reinforcers are removed based on behavior

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Discriminated avoidance

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Avoidance behavior emitted to a warning stimulus

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Choice

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Distribution of operant behavior among alternatives

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Concurrent schedules of reinforcement

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Two or more simultaneous but independent schedules of reinforcement

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Preference

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The alternative chosen more frequently

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Relative rates of response

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Measure of the distribution of behavior between alternatives

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Relative rates of reinforcement

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Measure of the distribution of reinforcement between alternatives

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Matching law

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Relative rates of responses match relative rates of reinforcement

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Discrimination

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A differential response to two or more stimuli

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Fading

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Transfer stimulus control to another value of a stimulus by decreasing presence of controlling stimulus

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Conditional discrimination

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Differential response to stimuli that depends on the stimulus context

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Response chain

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sequence of responses required for reinforcement

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Multiple schedule

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More than one successive schedule, each with a unique discriminative stimulus

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Behavioral contrast

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Changing one component of a schedule results in inverse affect on behavior in unchanged component

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DRO

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Reinforcement for behavior other than target behavior

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Superstitious behavior

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Behavior that is accidentally reinforced

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Unconditioned reinforcer

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Stimulus increases response rates without previous learning

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Chain schedule of reinforcement

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More than one sequential schedule, each with separate discriminative stimuli, ends in a terminal reinforcer

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Tandem schedule

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More than one sequential schedule without discriminative stimuli, ends in terminal reinforcer

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Mixed schedule reinforcement

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More than one schedule of reinforcement presented without separate discriminative stimuli

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Generalized conditioned reinforcer

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Stimulus associated with more than one unconditioned reinforcer

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Token economy

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Conditioned reinforcers are tokens that can be stored and exchanged

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Delayed imitation

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Imitating model occurs after a delay

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Generalized imitation

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A higher order operant emerging from repeated reinforcement of imitative behavior

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Observational learning

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Observed responses and consequences influence observer’s behavior

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Contingency-specifying stimuli

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Verbal stimuli describes contingencies and regulates listeners behavior

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Rule-governed behavior

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Behavior under control of contingency-specifying stimuli

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Contingency shaped behavior

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Operant behavior under control of existing contingencies

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Joint control

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Two verbal stimuli exert control over a common verbal topography

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Spontaneous imitation

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Imitative behavior occurring without previous learning

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Function-altering events

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Rules and instructions alter function and strength of other stimuli

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Verbal behavior

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Performance of speaker and environmental conditions that maintain performance

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Mand

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Regulated by motivational conditions

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Tact

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Regulated by nonverbal SD and maintained by generalized reinforcement

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Echoic

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Verbal response exactly corresponds to stimulus

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Conditioned establishing operation

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Establishing operations depend on history of reinforcement

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Intraverbal

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Regulated by verbal Sd’s

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Formal similarity

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Verbal stimulus and response are in the same mode and physical resemblance

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Textual behavior

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Regulated by verbal stimuli with correspondence between stimulus and response without formal similarity

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Stimulus equivalence

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Presentation of one stimuli class occasions response to other classes

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Symmetry

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If A=B, then B=A

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Reflexivity

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A=A

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Transitivity

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Train A=B and B=C, respond A=C