chapter 7- stimulus control Flashcards
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antecedent
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- stimuli/ events that precede an operant response
* *important to analyze the antecedents and the consequences
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discriminative stimulus (SD)
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- the stimulus that is present when a particular behaviour is reinforced
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generalization
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- takes place when a behaviour occurs in the presence of stimuli that are similar in some ways to the SD that was present during stimulus discrimination training
(something happens regularly in gneral)
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S-delta
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The S-delta (SD) is the stimulus in the presence of which the behavior is not reinforced
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stimulus control
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- the outcome of stimulus discrimination training
- a particular behaviour is more likely to occur in the presence of a particular discriminative stimulus (SD) because the behaviour has been reinforced only when the SD was present
- SD has stimulus control over the behaviour
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stimulus discrimination training
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- a process in which a behaviour is reinforced when the discriminative stimulus SD is present and is extinguished when the S-Delta is present
- when SD is present, the behaviour is reinforced
- when any other antecedent stimuli except the SD are present the behaviour is not reinforced; during discrimination training, any antecedent stimulus that is not enforced is called an S-Delta
- *as a result, of discrimination training, a behaviour is more likely to occur in the future when the SD is present but is less likely to occur when S-delta is present
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three-term contingency
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- the antecedent that is present when the behaviour occurs, the behaviour, and the reinforcing consequence - also called contingency of reinforcement
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generalization gradient
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- a graph showing how the strength of response changes with similarity
- stimuli must be similar
- as stimuli are less and less similar to the SD, the behaviour is less likely to occur in the presence of these stimuli
