Contingency shaped and rule-governed

Question 1

Contingency shaped behaviour

Answer 1

Behaviour shaped by its consequences

Question 2

Rule governed behaviour

Answer 2

Behaviour determined by verbal antecedents called contingency-specifying stimuli.

Question 3

• Requires extensive training, slowly acquired.
• Fast and smooth
• Relatively unconscious

Answer 3

Contingency shaped

Question 4

• Relatively immediate acquisition.
• Slow and unsteady
• conscious

Answer 4

Rule governed

Question 5

Rule governed behaviour seemed insensitive to programmed consequences.

Answer 5

The insensitivity effect

Question 6

Shimoff et al (1981)

Answer 6

Group 1- contingency shaped.
Group 2- rule governed.
Those following instructions were less sensitive to contingency changes and so earnt less points than those who acquired their behaviour through shaping.

Question 7

LeFrancois et al (1988)

Answer 7

Those exposed to a variety of schedules in training demonstrated sensitive performances during both the FI and extinction.

Question 8

2 types of rule following

Answer 8

Pliance and Tracking

Question 9

Pliance

Answer 9

Instruction following that depends on the social contingencies.

Question 10

Tracking

Answer 10

Instruction following involve correspondence between verbal behaviour and environment.

Question 11

Skinner defined a rule as…

Answer 11

a contingency specifying stimulus

Question 12

Relational Frame Theory (RFT)

Answer 12

This is how stimuli, responses, and consequences are specified.