DIscriminative Stimulus/Stimulus Control

Question 1

Stimulus Control

Answer 1

A group of stimuli in which the frequency, latency, durations, or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus.

Question 2

Unconditioned motivating operations

Answer 2

A motivating operation whose value altering effect does not depend on a learning history

Question 3

Condition motivating operations

Answer 3

A motivating operation whose value-altering effect depends on a learning history

Question 4

Discriminative stimulus

Answer 4

An antecedent stimulus whihc evokes or abates a specific behavior, due to a past history of differential availability of reinforcement or punishment for that behavior, dependent on their presence versus their absence.

Question 5

Motivating operation

Answer 5

An environmental variable that alters the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and alters the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object, or event

Question 6

Operant conditoning

Answer 6

The basic process by which operant learning occurs

Question 7

Evoke

Answer 7

Behavior is likely to occur now, under the current conditions

Question 8

Abate

Answer 8

Behavior is NOT likely to occur under the current conditions

Question 9

Differential Reinforcement

Answer 9

Reinforcing only those responses within a response class that meet a specific criterion along some dimension(s) and placing all other responses in the class on extinction.

Question 10

Differentiation

Answer 10

When differntial reinforcement consists of reinforcing some responses and not reinforcing other responses

Question 11

Discrimination

Answer 11

When differential reinforcement consists of reinforcing a response when certain stimuli are present and not reinforcing the same response when those stimuli are not present

Question 12

Discriminative Control

Answer 12

The tendency of behavior to occur more frequently in the presence of a particular stimulus because the behavior has been reinforced only or mostly in the presence of that stimulus.

Question 13

Discriminated Operant

Answer 13

An operant class that is established through the process of differential reinforcement with respect to the presence or absence of antecedent stimuli

Question 14

SD for SR

Answer 14

Discriminative stimulus for reinforcement; evokes behavior because in the past that behavior has been reinforced in its presence

Question 15

Conditional Discrimination

Answer 15

A discrimination in which reinforcing a response is contingent on another stimulus

Question 16

Stimulus Generalization

Answer 16

The tendency of a learned response to occur in the presence of stimuli which were not present during training but which either have some similar physical properties to the SD or have been associated with the SD.