Chp 7

Question 1

Operant extinction

Answer 1

When a normally reinforced behavior no longer produces a reinforcement, so the behavior returns to its baseline level

Question 2

Escape extinction

Answer 2

A preciously reinforced behavior no longer removes or reduces the aversive event, so the behavior decreases.

Question 3

Partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE)

Answer 3

Direct relation between prior reinforcement rate and how quickly behavior undergoes extinction

Question 4

Spontaneous recovery of operant behavior

Answer 4

Temporary resumption is operant responding following time away from the extinction setting

Question 5

Extinction-induced emotional behavior

Answer 5

Effect of extinction is inducing emotional behavior

Question 6

Extinction burst

Answer 6

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)

Question 7

Extinction-induced variability

Answer 7

An increase in the variety of operant response topographies following extinction

Question 8

Extinction-induced resurgence

Answer 8

When one operant behavior is extinguished, other (different) behaviors that were previously reinforced are emitted again

Question 9

Functional analysis of behavior

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Automatic reinforcer

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Differential reinforcement

Answer 11

A procedure in which a previously reinforced behavior is placed on extinction while a second behavior is reinforced

Question 12

Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI)

Answer 12

A response that’s topographically incompatible with the problem behavior

Question 13

Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA)

Answer 13

The reinforced response can be any adaptive behavior, it doesn’t have to be topographically incompatible with the problem behavior.

Question 14

Functional communication training

Answer 14

Problematic demands are extinguished while appropriate requests are established and reinforced.

Question 15

Differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO)

Answer 15

Reinforcement is provided upon abstaining from the problem behavior for a specified interval of time

Question 16

Differential reinforcement of variability

Answer 16

Contingency where responses that have never been emitted or haven’t been emitted in a long time, are reinforced.

Question 17

Differential reinforcement of high rate behavior (DRH)

Answer 17

Low rate responding is put on extinction and high rate responding is reinforced

Question 18

Differential reinforcement of low rate behavior

Answer 18

High rate responding is out on extinction and low rate responding is reinforced

Question 19

If behavior was reinforced every time…

Answer 19

Extinction proceeds quickly

Question 20

Effects of operant extinction

Answer 20

Emotional response, increased negative emotions, increased variability of the operant response, resurgence of old behaviors that used to be reinforced.