Concepts and Principles

Question 1

Define - Response Class

Answer 1

a group of behaviors that comprise an operant/have the same function. Similar behaviors that are strengthened or weakened collectively as a result of operant conditioning

Question 2

Define - Operant

Answer 2

response-consequence relationship

Question 3

Define - Stimulus Class

Answer 3

a group of antecedent or simultaneous stimuli that have a common effect on an operant class

Question 4

What are the 3 types of stimulus classes?

Answer 4

Formal, temporal, functional

Question 5

Define Formal stimulus class

Answer 5

stimuli that share physical features (topographies)

Question 6

Define temporal stimulus class

Answer 6

stimuli that share time elements (ex: antecedents and consequences)

Question 7

Define functional stimulus class

Answer 7

the effect of the stimulus on the behavior

Question 8

Define - Arbitrary stimulus class

Answer 8

stimuli that evoke the same response but do not share a common stimulus feature (they don’t look alike)

Question 9

Define - Respondent Behavior

Answer 9

Behavior that is involuntary and is elicited by antecedents (untrained stimuli) that produce an untrained response (reflex)

Question 10

Define - Phylogenic

Answer 10

behavior that is genetically inherited

Question 11

Define - Habituation

Answer 11

when the unconditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly over a short period of time, the strength of the respondent behavior diminishes

Question 12

Operant Behavior

Answer 12

a behavior that is determined and maintained by its history of consequences. Voluntary and learned behavior

Question 13

what are the 3 principles of behavior?

Answer 13

Punishment, extinction, reinforcement

Question 14

Stimulus Delta

Answer 14

a stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has not produced reinforcement in the past

Question 15

Establishing operation

Answer 15

a type of MO that increases the effectiveness of a stimulus as a reinforcer in the moment and the current frequency of any behavior to contact that reinforcer

Question 16

stimulus generalization

Answer 16

responding to antecedent stimuli sharing certain aspects of the original SD; a broadening of the spectrum of stimuli that occasion a response

Question 17

Response generalization

Answer 17

the extent to which your client exhibits novel behaviors that are functionally equivalent to the target behavior (hey, hi, hello)