Common ISR Terms

Question 1

Occurs when the student is required to make sense of his environment when presented with a totally new or foreign experience.

Answer 1

Accommodation

Question 2

The student has no familiarity with the new experience (stimulus) being presented and on a cognitive level must create a new file (schema) to associate with this experience.

Answer 2

Accommodation

Question 3

Term used for the process of sensorimotor learning,

Answer 3

Adaptation

Question 4

What are the 3 components of adaptation?

Answer 4

Assimilation
Accommodation
Equilibration

Question 5

The ability to relate an experience to something already experienced or perceived.

Answer 5

Assimilation

Question 6

The experience (stimulus) is not completely new or foreign; it is similar to something already perceived and on a cognitive level the student has some familiarity with it.

Answer 6

Assimilation

Question 7

A sequence of behaviors

Answer 7

Behavioral Chain

Question 8

Each link of the Behavioral Chain is composed of 3 elements:

Answer 8

Stimulus (Sd)
Response (P)
Reinforcer (Sr)

All 3 elements are related to each other and linked sequentially for an ultimate purpose.

Question 9

The stimulus within the behavioral chain is noted as:

Answer 9

Sd or Discriminative Stimulus

Question 10

The response within the behavioral chain is noted as:

Answer 10

P or Performance

Question 11

The reinforcer within the behavioral chain is noted as:

Answer 11

Sr or Conditioned Reinforcer

Question 12

The overriding singular stimulus that the student recognizes and responds to in a certain way each time it is expressed or presented.

Answer 12

Discriminative Stimulus Sd

Question 13

The motor behavior (one single movement) of the student in the presence of a stimulus within the behavioral chain.

Answer 13

Performance P

Question 14

Anything that can be observed, counted or measured.

Answer 14

Behavior

It must alter some condition in the environment.

Question 15

In a behavioral chain, what is reinforced by a conditioned reinforcer?

Answer 15

The “single” response to the discriminative stimulus

Example:
extends upper right arm
turns head left
contracts lower left leg

Question 16

What follows the performance in a behavioral chain and becomes the discriminative stimulus (Sd) for the next behavior?

Answer 16

Conditioned Reinforcer (Sr)

Question 17

A conditioned reinforcer (Sr) follows the _____ in a behavioral chain and becomes the _____ for the next behavior.

Answer 17

Performance (P)

Discriminative Stimulus (Sd)

Question 18

_____ involves differentially reinforcing successive approximations of the target behavior.

Answer 18

Shaping behavior

Question 19

_____: any feature in the environment that the instructor can directly control, and thereby use to change the environment to influence or redirect behavior.

Answer 19

Independent Variables

Examples:
Order of Presentation
Prompts & Procedures
Schedules of Reinforcement
Proximity
Submersion Intervals
Tempo
Performance Opportunities
Length of Lessons