Cooper Ch 16 MO

Question 1

A term for any environmental variable that
• Alters the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer
• Alters the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced by that stimulus, object, or event.

Answer 1

Establishing operations

More recently known as motivational operations

Question 2

An increase in the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event, in which case the MO is an establishing operation (EO)
• A decrease in reinforcing effectiveness, in which case the MO is an abolishing operation (AO).

Answer 2

Value altering effect

Question 3

An increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event, called an evocative effect
• A decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event called an abative effect.

Answer 3

Behavior altering effect

Question 4

A relatively permanent change in an organism’s repertoire of MO, stimulus, and response relations, caused by reinforcement, punishment, an extinction procedure, or a recovery from punishment procedure.

Answer 4

Functional altering effect.

Repertoire altering effect

Question 5

An SD is a stimulus that controls a type of behavior because that stimulus has been related to what?

Answer 5

It has been related to the differential availability of an effective reinforcer for that type of behavior. (377)

Question 6

events, operations, and stimulus conditions with value-altering motivating effects that are unlearned. (377) Also stated as: a motivating operation whose value-altering effect doesn’t depend on a learning history. (Glossary)

Answer 6

Unconditioned MO

Question 7

food deprivation, water deprivation, sleep deprivation, activity deprivation, oxygen deprivation, sex deprivation, becoming too warm, becoming too cold, and increase in painful stimulus. (379, Table 16.1)

Answer 7

9 examples of unconditioned MOs

Question 8

Aversive stimuli refer to environmental events with what combined effects?

Answer 8

MO evocative effects, function-altering effects

Question 9

o Motivating variables that alter the reinforcing effectiveness of other stimuli, objects, or events, but only as a result of the organism’s learning history.

Answer 9

Technical definition for CMOs