Ch. 15

Question 1

The process (when it takes place naturally) or procedure (when intentionally programmed) that enables an antecedent stimulus to gain control over one or more particular behaviors as a function of the individual’s experience of response-consequence correlation in the presence of that antecedent.

Answer 1

stimulus control

Question 2

A form of tight stimulus control in which responding is restricted to certain stimulus situations: those in which the response has been reinforced, and not to those in which it has not been reinforced. The ability to identify under which conditions, a behavior will lead to reinforcement, or not.

Answer 2

discriminative stimulus

Question 3

The antecedent value–altering effect of it that does not depend on one’s learning history.

Answer 3

unconditioned motivating operation (UMO)

Question 4

A conditioned reflexive MO that acquires its MO effectiveness by preceding particular improving or worsening situations

Answer 4

CMO-R

Question 5

A surrogate MO “is a stimulus that acquires its MO effectiveness by being paired with another MO, and has the same value-altering and behavior-altering effects as the MO with which it was paired”

Answer 5

CMO-S

Question 6

An environmental variable that establishes (or abolishes) the reinforcing effectiveness of another stimulus and evokes (or abates) the behavior that has been reinforced by that other stimulus”

Answer 6

CMO-T