BEHV 101 Week 2 Flashcards
Behavior
Activity of an organism
Response
Instance of behavior
Stimulus
Energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells
Stimuli
Plural of stimulus
Response class
Group of responses w/ the same function
Stimulus class
Group of stimuli w/ common elements
Environment
Physical setting in which the organism exists
Repertoire
All behaviors a person can do
Response topography
Physical form or shape of a behavior
Function
Behaviors have a common effect on the environment
Selectionism
All forms of life evolve as a result of selection w/ respect to function
Antecedent
Occur PRIOR TO the behavior of interest
Consequence
Stimulus that FOLLOWS a behavior of interest
Respondent behavior
Behavior ELICITED by antecedent stimuli
Reflex
UNLEARNED stimulus-response relation
Respondent conditioning
New stimuli acquire the ability to ELICIT respondents
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Unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned stimuli
Do not need conditioning to elicit respondent behavior
Neutral stimuli
Have no impact on occurrence of behavior
CS
Conditioned stimuli
Conditioned stimuli
Ellicit respondent behavior through stimulus-stimulus pairing
Respondent extinction
Unpairing
Operant behavior
Behavior determined by its history of consequences
Operant behavior is……..
Emitted
Operant conditioning
Process & selective effects of consequences on behavior
Reinforcement
Response followed by a stimulus change resulting in increase in behavior
Positive reinforcement
Stimulus presented, behavior increases
Negative reinforcement
Aversive stimulus removed, behavior increases
Aversive stimulus
Stimulus whose termination functions as reinforcement
Reinforcer
Stimulus is presented or removed, behavior increases
Punishment
Response followed by stimulus change that decreases future frequency of response
Positive punishment
Punisher presented, behavior decreases
Negative punishment
Punisher removed, behavior decreases
Phylogeny
Innate
Ontogeny
Learned
Extinction
Reinforcement withheld, behavior decreases
3-term contingency
Antecedent-behavior-consequence
Unconditioned reinforcer
Primary reinforcer, no pairing
Conditioned reinforcer
Secondary reinforcer; requires pairing
Unconditioned punisher
Stimulus change functions as punisher w/out pairing
Conditioned punishers
Stimulus change functions as a punisher due to pairing
Deprivation
Lack of exposure to a given stimulus
Satiation
Reinforcer loses its effectiveness due to overuse
Rule-governed behavior
Behavior controlled by verbal statements
Contingency-shaped behavior
Behavior controlled by experience w/ contingencies
Discriminative stimulus (SD)
Signals reinforcement is available
Punisher
Stimulus is presented or removed, behavior decreases
