Chapter 11

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Type of reinforcement that occurs when a response is followed by the presentation of a stimulus, and as a result similar responses occur more likely in the future

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Positive reinforcer

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A basic behavioral principle that states that when a behavior (R) is followed by

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Reinforcement

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The stimulus presented as a consequence and is responsible for the increase in responding when positive reinforcement occurs

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Positive reinforcer

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A stimulus change that functions as reinforcement though the learner has no prior learning history with it (food, water, sexual stimulation)

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Unconditioned reinforcer

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A previously neutral stimulus change that has acquired the capability to function as a reinforcer through stimulus-stimulus pairings with one or more unconditioned reinforcers or conditioned reinforcers

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Conditioned reinforcer

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Verbal description of a behavioral contingency

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Rule

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A conditioned reinforcer that functions

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Generalized conditioned reinforcer

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Sd: an antecedent stimuli correlated with the availability of reinforcement for a particular response class

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Discriminative stimulus

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A behavior reinforcement relation that occurs without the presentation of consequences by other people

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Automatic reinforcement

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A concept that says that making the opportunity to engage in a high rate of behavior contingent upon the occurrence of a low rate behavior will function as reinforcement for the low frequency behavior

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Pre Mack principle