Chp 7 Flashcards
Operant extinction
When a normally reinforced behavior no longer produces a reinforcement, so the behavior returns to its baseline level
Escape extinction
A preciously reinforced behavior no longer removes or reduces the aversive event, so the behavior decreases.
Partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE)
Direct relation between prior reinforcement rate and how quickly behavior undergoes extinction
Spontaneous recovery of operant behavior
Temporary resumption is operant responding following time away from the extinction setting
Extinction-induced emotional behavior
Effect of extinction is inducing emotional behavior
Extinction burst
A temporary increase in the rate, magnitude, or duration of the previously reinforced response
(If the vending machine doesn’t give you your food, you push the button over and over)
Extinction-induced variability
An increase in the variety of operant response topographies following extinction
Extinction-induced resurgence
When one operant behavior is extinguished, other (different) behaviors that were previously reinforced are emitted again
Functional analysis of behavior
The scientific method used to determine if a problem behavior is an operant and identity the reinforcer that maintains that operant
Therapists identify the reinforcer that maintains the problem behavior
Automatic reinforcer
Consequence that’s directly produced by the response- it’s not provided by someone else- and which increases the behavior above a no-reinforcer baseline
Differential reinforcement
A procedure in which a previously reinforced behavior is placed on extinction while a second behavior is reinforced
Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI)
A response that’s topographically incompatible with the problem behavior
Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA)
The reinforced response can be any adaptive behavior, it doesn’t have to be topographically incompatible with the problem behavior.
Functional communication training
Problematic demands are extinguished while appropriate requests are established and reinforced.
Differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO)
Reinforcement is provided upon abstaining from the problem behavior for a specified interval of time
Differential reinforcement of variability
Contingency where responses that have never been emitted or haven’t been emitted in a long time, are reinforced.
Differential reinforcement of high rate behavior (DRH)
Low rate responding is put on extinction and high rate responding is reinforced
Differential reinforcement of low rate behavior
High rate responding is out on extinction and low rate responding is reinforced
If behavior was reinforced every time…
Extinction proceeds quickly
Effects of operant extinction
Emotional response, increased negative emotions, increased variability of the operant response, resurgence of old behaviors that used to be reinforced.
