BEHP 5011, Units 1-5 Flashcards
Discriminative stimulus for unavailability of positive punishment
S-delta P+
An environmental change in which a stimulus is added (presented) or magnified following a response, that decreases the future frequency of that response
Positive Punishment
A stimulus that follows, that is, occurs after a response
Consequence
An environmental change that follows a response and increases or maintains the future frequency of that behavior
Reinforcement
The process by which a previously reinforced behavior is weakened by withholding reinforcement
Operant extinction
An environmental change in which a stimulus is subtracted (withdrawn or removed) or attenuated following a response, and which increases or maintains the future frequency of that behavior
Negative reinforcement
An environmental variable that alters the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and alters the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object or event.
Motivating operation
A stimulus that initially has no innate reinforcing properties, but acquires reinforcing properties through pairing with unconditioned reinforcers or powerful conditioned reinforcers
Conditioned reinforcer
The total constellation of stimuli and conditions which can affect behavior
Environment
A grouping of individual actions or responses that share those commonalities included in the class definition
Response class
A temporary increase in some dimension or intensity of a reflex response due to repeated presentations of an eliciting stimulus (usually aversive).
Potentiation
When differential reinforcement consists of reinforcing a response when certain stimuli are present and not reinforcing the same response when those stimuli are not present.
Discrimination
A discrimination in which reinforcing a response is contingent (conditional) on another stimulus
Conditional discrimination
Reinforcing only those responses within a response class that meet a specific criterion along some dimension(s) and placing all other responses in the class on extinction.
Differential reinforcement
A stimulus which precedes, that is, occurs before a response
Antecedent
SD for SR
Discriminative stimulus for reinforcement
Sp+
Conditioned positive punishment
SP-
Unconditioned negative punishment
To strongly, consistently and reliably evoke; used exclusively for respondent functional relations
Elicit
Continually question the truthfulness of what is regarded as fact
Philosophical doubt
No clear warning stimulus, but a response can still delay or prevent the occurrence of the aversive event.
Unsignaled avoidance
Behavior is modified by its consequences irrespective of the person’s awareness
Automaticity
Consist of the situation (set of circumstances) in which behavior occurs at any given time
Environmental context
Discriminative stimulus for punishment; abates behavior because in the past that behavior has been punished in its presence
SDP for SP