Chapter 3 ABA Terms Flashcards
Compound stimuli.
Two (or more) conditioned stimuli are presented together and acquire the capacity to evoke a single conditioned response
Conditioned response.
An arbitrary stimulus, is associated with an unconditioned stimulus that elicits reflexive behavior. After several pairings, the stimulus is presented alone. If the stimulus now elicits a response, the response to the tone is called a conditioned response (CR).
Conditioned stimulus.
An arbitrary stimulus is associated with an unconditioned stimulus that elicits reflexive behavior. After several pairings, the stimulus is presented alone. If the stimulus now elicits a response, it is called a conditioned stimulus (CS).
Contextual Stimuli.
Uncontrolled sights, sounds, smells, etc. that are the background for conditioning and are conditioned at the same time that behavior is strengthened.
CS-Pre-exposure effect.
An alternative term for latent inhibition.
Elicited (behavior).
Respondent (CR) and reflexive (UR) behavior is elicited in the sense that the behavior is made to occur by the presentation of a stimulus (CS or US).
Habituation.
A reduction, over repeated presentations, in the UR produced by the US.
Ontogenetic.
Each organism has a unique life history (ontogeny) that contributes to its behavior. Ontogenetic changes in behavior are caused by events that occur over the lifetime of an individual.
Phylogenetic.
Behavior relations that are based on the genetic endowment of an organism, and that are present on the basis of species history.
Reflex.
An unconditioned stimulus elicits an unconditioned response (US → UR)
Respondent.
Refers to behavior that increases or decreases by the presentation of a conditioned stimulus (CS) that precedes the conditioned response (CR).
Respondent discrimination.
Occurs when an organism shows a conditioned response to one stimulus but not to other similar events.
Respondent extinction (procedure).
Involves the presentation of the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus after acquisition has occurred.
•Respondent extinction (process).
A decline in the strength of the conditioned response when an extinction procedure is in effect.
Respondent generalization.
When an organism shows a conditioned response to values of the conditioned stimulus that have not been trained.
Respondent level.
The baseline level (magnitude) of the conditioned response (CR) to the conditioned stimulus (CS) before any known conditioning has taken place
Second-order conditioning.
involves pairing two conditioned stimuli (CS1 + CS2), rather than a conditioned and unconditioned stimulus (CS + US).
