chapter 17

Question 1

stimulus control

Answer 1

Behaviors occur more often in the presence of an SD than its absence
-occurs when the rate, latency, duration or amplitude of a response is altered in the presence of an antecedent stimulus

Question 2

stimulus generalization

Answer 2

stimuli that share similar physical properties evoke a response like the orginial stimulus

Question 3

stimulus generalization gradient

Answer 3

graphically depicts the degree of stimulus generalization and discrimination by showing the extent to which responses reinforced in one stimulus condition are emitted in the presence of untrained stimuli

Question 4

stimulus discrimination training

Answer 4

requires one bx and two antecedent stimulus conditions. responses are reinforced in the presence of one stimulus condition, SD, and not the other S-delta

Question 5

concept formation

Answer 5

complex example of stimulus control that requires both stimulus generalization with a class of stimulus discrimination between classes of stimulus

Question 6

antecedent stimulus class

Answer 6

set of stimuli that share a common relationship. all will evoke the same operant response class or elicit the same respondent BX

Question 7

arbitrary stimulus class

Answer 7

stimuli that evoke the same response but do not share a common stimulus feature
(they do not share physical form or relational relationships

Question 8

feature stimulus class

Answer 8

stimulus class that share common physical or common relative relations

Question 9

stimulus eviquivance

Answer 9

emergence of accurate responding to untrained and non reinforced stimulus-stimulus relations. following reinforcement of responses to some stimulus-stimulus relations.

Question 10

reflexilty

Answer 10

occurs when the absence of training and reinforcement a response will select a stimulus that is matched to itself
A=A

Question 11

symmetry

Answer 11

occurs with reversibility of the sample stimulus and comparison stimulus
if A=b then B=A

Question 12

Transitivity

Answer 12

an untrained stimulus-stimulus relation that emerges as a product of training 2 other stimulus-stimulus relations
A=B and B=C, so A=C

Question 13

response prompts

Answer 13

operate directly on the response

• verbal instructions
• modeling
• physical guidance

Question 14

Stimulus prompts

Answer 14

operate directly on the antecedent task stimuli to cue a correct response in conjunction with an SD
use movement, position and redundancy

Question 15

Transfer of stimulus control

from response prompts to naturally occurring stimuli

Answer 15

• most to least prompts
• gradual guidance
• least to most prompts
• time delay

Question 16

Transfer of stimulus control using stimulus control shaping

Answer 16

• stimulus fading

- stimulus shape transformations

Question 17

stimulus delta

Answer 17

a stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has not produced reinforcement in past

Question 18

matching to sample

Answer 18

a procedure for investigating conditional relations and stimulus equivalence. Trail begins with the participant making a response that presents or reveals the sample stimulus, next the sample stimulus may or may not be removed and 2 or more comparison stimuli are presented. participant selects comparison stimuli. Responses that comparison match sample are reinforced.