Chapter 16

Question 1

______operation was re-introduced to describe any environmental variable that momentarily alters the effectiveness of some stimulus object or event as a reinforcer the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced by stimulus object or event.

Answer 1

Establishing

Question 2

_______ operations serve not only to strengthen, but also to weaken the value of a consequence as a reinforcer.

Answer 2

Motivating

Question 3

A motivating operation can be defined as an environmental variable that has two effects _____altering and behavior altering.

Answer 3

Value

Question 4

The ______altering effect is either an increase in the reinforcers effectiveness of some stimulus object or event in which case the MO is established operations or a decrease in the reinforcement effectiveness in which case the MO is an abolishing operation.

Answer 4

Value

Question 5

The behavior altering effect is either an increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus object or event called any evocative effect or a decrease in the current frequency of the behavior that has been enforced by some stimulus object event called an ____________.

Answer 5

Ablative effect

Question 6

Thus consequences can change the organisms repertoire enabling the organism to behave differently. In the future. Thus consequences have function altering _______. These variables include reinforcers punishers, and the currents of a response without its reinforcer or without its punisher..

Answer 6

Effect

Question 7

AnSD effects behavior because its presence has been correlated with the differential availability of effective reinforcer in the past differential availability means the relevant consequence has been available in the presence of the ED reinforcement and unavailable in its ______

Answer 7

Absence

Question 8

______in contrast controls behavior because of its relation to the differential effectiveness of a reinforcer for that behavior differential effectiveness means that the relevant consequence was has been effective in the presence of an in effect in the absence of the motivating operation.

Answer 8

MO

Question 9

_________ are born with the capacity to be affected by food reinforcement as a result of food, deprivation, and pain reduction reinforcement as a result of pain onset or increase thus food, deprivation, and painful stimulation are unconditioned, motivating operations.

Answer 9

Humans

Question 10

_____motivating operations, motivating variables that alter the reinforcer effectiveness of other stimuli, objects or events as a result of the organisms learning history.

Answer 10

Conditioned

Question 11

example of a conditioned motivating operation needing to enter room with the lock door establishes the key to the lock as an effective reinforcer a lock door is a _______because it’s value altering effect is a function of a learning history involving doors, locks and keys.

Answer 11

CMO

Question 12

surrogate conditioned, motivating operation produces the same effect as another motivating operation because of some type of _____\surrogate is a substitute or stand in.

Answer 12

Pairing

Question 13

A ___CMO alters a relation to itself, makes it its own removal effective as reinforcement.

Answer 13

Reflexive

Question 14

A ________CMO makes something else effective as reinforcement.

Answer 14

Transitive