Last unit Flashcards

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Define choice

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Voluntary behavior occurring in a context in which alternative behaviors are possible

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2
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What are the four variables that affect choice

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Reinforcement versus no reinforcement reinforcer size/quality
effort
reinforcer delay

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3
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Define substitute reinforcer

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Reinforce her that is increasingly consumed when access to another reinforcer is constrained

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4
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What are the two ways to increase the proportion of behavior allocated to Bernstein’s equation for B1

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Increase R one

Decrease R 2

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5
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Define discriminated operant behavior

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Operant behavior that is systematically influenced by antecedent stimuli

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6
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Define discriminative stimulus SD

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Antecedent stimulus that can evoke a specific operant response because the individual has learned that when the SD is present that the response will be reinforced

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7
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Define S delta

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An anticin stimulus that is decreases as specific operate response because the individual has learned that when the S delta is present that the response will not be reinforced extinction

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8
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Define the SDP

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An antecedent stimulus that decreases a specific operant response because the individual has learned that when the SDP is present that response will be punished. 

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9
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Define three-term contingency

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ABC contingency the functional relation between antecedent behavior and consequence

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10
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Define discrimination training

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Procedure in which an operant responses rainforest in the presence of an SD and estinguished in the presence of an S delta.

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11
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Define generalization in terms of SD

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Another stimulus resembling the SD evokes response despite that response never having been reinforced in the presence of that novels stimulus

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12
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What are the four examples that we talked about in class that prevent SD and reinforce the response to teach in the bedroom new discrimination

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Baby with lights, rats with explosives, rats and drugs addictive drugs to have same effects, airport dog sniffing for drugs

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13
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What is the Hearn Stein’s matching equation

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Used an equation to describe how nonhuman animals choose to allocate their behavior between two food choices

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14
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Define impulsivity

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Choosing the smaller sooner reward and foregoing the larger later reward

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15
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Define self control

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Choosing a larger later reward and foregoing the smaller sooner reward

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16
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What are the four verbal operant

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Mand
Echoic 
Tact
Intraverbal

17
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Describe the kernel of language

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Symmetric relational responding from pictures to words and words to pictures

18
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What are the two categories of rule following

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Pliance

Tracking

19
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Describe pliance

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Rule following that occurs because of socially mediated positive and negative reinforcers

20
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Define tracking

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Rule following that occurs because the instructions appear to correctly describe the operant contingencies that operate in the world

21
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What are the three downsides to rule following

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Too much pliance is a bad thing, tracking reduces variability, tracking incorrect rules can be problematic

22
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What does ACT stand for?

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Acceptance and Commitment therapy

23
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Define contingency shape behavior

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Behavior acquired and maintained By interacting with the contingencies of behavior alone