Chapter 6 ABA Terms Flashcards
Aversive stimulus.
An event or stimulus that an organism escapes or avoids.
Discriminated avoidance.
Behavior that is emitted to a warning stimulus.
External validity.
The extent to which experimental findings generalize to other behaviors, settings, reinforcers, and populations—
Learned helplessness.
Exposing an animal to inescapable and severe aversive stimulation (shocks). Eventually the animal gives up and stops attempting to avoid or escape the situation.
Negative reinforcer.
Any event or stimulus that increases the probability of an operant that removes or prevents it.
Nondiscriminated avoidance.
A procedure used to train avoidance responding in which no warning stimulus is presented
Operant aggression.
Aggressive behavior that is reinforced by the removal of an aversive event arranged by another member of the species.
Overcorrection.
A positive punishment procedure that uses “restitution” or “positive practice” to reduce or eliminate destructive or aggressive behavior.
Positive Practice.
A positive punishment procedure that requires the violator to intensively practice an overly correct form of the action.
Punisher.
A stimulus that decreases the frequency of an operant that produces it.
Reflective aggression.
Aggression elicited by the presentation of an aversive unconditioned stimulus or event.
Response cost.
A negative punishment procedure in which conditioned reinforcers are removed contingent on behavior, and the behavior decreases.
Timeout (from avoidance).
Negative reinforcement of behavior that terminates, prevents, or postpones the avoidance contingencies of work or life.
Timeout (from positive reinforcement).
A negative punishment procedure in which the wrongdoer loses access to positive reinforcement for a specified period of time for engaging in the undesirable behavior.
