BCBA PREP

Question 0

Reinforcement

Answer 0

Stimulus change that follow are response and increases the probability of similar response under similar conditions

Question 1

Punishment

Answer 1

Stimulus change that follows a response and decreases the probability of similar responses under similar conditions.

Question 2

Extinction

Answer 2

Discontinuing reinforcement from a previously reinforced response and decreases similar responses under similar conditions.

Question 3

Discriminative stimulus

Answer 3

A stimulus that controls a behavior because it has been related to the differential availability of an effective reinforcer and has increased or decreased behavior.

Question 4

Motivating operation

Answer 4

Temporarily increase the value of the reinforcer.

Question 5

Stimulus generalization.

Answer 5

When an antecedent stimulus has a history of evoking a response that has been reinforced in its presence, the same type of behavior tends to be evoked by stimuli that share similar physical properties with the controlling antecedent stimulus.

Question 6

Behavior

Answer 6

Used in reference to a larger set or class of responses that share certain physical dimensions (e.g. hand-flapping behavior) or function (e.g. study behavior).

Question 7

Response

Answer 7

A specific instance of behavior. An action of an organism’s effector.

Question 8

Response class

Answer 8

A group of responses with the same function (produces the same effect on the environment).

Question 9

Stimulus

Answer 9

An energy change that affects behavior

Question 10

Stimulus class

Answer 10

Any group of stimuli sharing a predetermined set of common elements in one or more of these dimensions (formally, temporally, functionally).

Question 11

Unconditioned (primary) reinforcement (punishment)

Answer 11

A stimulus change that follows a behavior and (de)increases the probability of similar response under similar conditions without prior pairing with any other form of (punishment) reinforcement.

Question 12

Conditioned reinforcement (punishment

Answer 12

A stimulus change that follows a behavior and (de)increases the probability of similar response under similar conditions only due to prior pairing with other reinforcement (punishment).

Question 13

Stimulus Control

Answer 13

A situation in which the frequency, latency, duration, or magnitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus.