CHAPTER 5 Vocab A-F Flashcards
The formation of a new conditioned response tendency
Acquisition
In behavior modification, event that typically precede the target response
Antecedents
Orientations that locate objects of thought on dimensions of judgement
Attitudes
Learning that has occurred when an organism engages in a response that prevents aversive stimulation from occurring
Avoidance learning
A systematic approach to changing behavior through the application of the principles of conditioning
Behavior modification
A written agreement outlining a promise to adhere to the contingencies of a behavior modification program
Behavioral contract
A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to evoke a response that was orginally evoked by another stimulus
Classical conditioning
Two or more reinforcement schedules that operate simultaneously and independently, each for a different response
Concurrent schedules of reinforcement
Stimulus events that acquire reinforcing qualities by being associated with primary reinforcers
Conditioned response (CR)
A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
Reinforcing every instance of a designated response
Continuous reinforcement
A graphic record of reinforcement and responding in a Skinner box as a function of time
Cumulative recorder
Cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequences (reinforcement or nonreinforcement) of a response
Discriminative stimuli
Sending a weak electric current into a brain structure to stimulate it
ESB
To draw or bring for
Elicit
To send forth
Emit
Forming a memory code
Encoding
A type of learning in which an organism acquires a response that decreases or ends some aversive stimulation
Escape learning
The gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency
Extinction
A reinforcement schedule in which the reinforcer is given for the first response that occurs after a fixed time interval has elapsed
Fixed-interval schedule
A reinforcement schedule in which the reinforcer is given after a fixed number of nonreinforced responses
Fixed-ration schedule
