PSY7709 Week 3 ABA Terminology Flashcards
An alteration in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is altered in effectiveness by the same motivating operation.
Behavior Altering Affect
A motivating operation whose value-altering effect depends on a learning history.
Conditioned Motivating Operation
A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a negative reinforcer because of prior pairing with one or more negative reinforcers.
Conditioned Negative Reinfocer
A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a punisher because of prior pairing with one or more punishers.
Conditioned Punisher
A previously neutral stimulus that has been paired a number of times with an established reinforcer and consequently functions as a reinforcer itself.
Conditioned Reinforcer
A formerly neutral stimulus change that elicits respondent behavior only after it has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
Conditioned Stimulus
A stimulus in the presence of which responses of some type have been reinforced and in the absence of which the same type of responses have occurred and not been reinforced.
Discriminative Stimulus
A motivating operation that increases the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer.
Establishing Operation
An increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation.
Evocative Effect
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.
Function-altering Effect
An environmental variable that (a) alters (increases or decreases) the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and (b) alters (increases or decreases) the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object, or event.
Motivating Operation
Part of the habit reversal procedure used to increase the likelihood that the client will use the competing response outside the treatment sessions to control the habit.
Motivation Strategy
The reinforcement contingency for the behavior of a particular person in the normal course of the person’s life.
Natural Contingencies of Reinforcement
An observation setting that is part of the client’s normal daily routine.
Natural Setting
A stimulus whose termination or reduction in intensity functions as reinforcement.
Negative Reinforcer
A neutral change that does not elicit respondent behavior.
Neutral Stimulus
Which of the following is NOT true about stimulus equivalence?
the stimuli are followed by only reinforcement
A type of stimulus-to-stimulus relation in which the learner, without any prior training or reinforcement for doing so, selects a comparison stimulus that is the same as the sample stimulus (e.g., A=A).
reflexivity
The process in which the unconditioned stimulus and conditioned stimulus are presented at the same time in respondent conditioning trials.
simultaneous conditioning
A situation in which the frequency, latency, duration, or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus.
Stimulus control
A stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has not produced reinforcement in the past.
Stimulus delta
A procedure in which two stimuli are presented at the same time, usually repeatedly for a number of trials, which often results in one stimulus acquiring the function of the other stimulus.
stimulus-stimulus pairing
An environmental variable that, as a result of a learning history, establishes (or abolishes) the reinforcing effectiveness of another stimulus and evokes (or abates) the behavior that has been reinforced by that other stimulus.
transitive conditioned motivating operation
A stimulus that functions as a negative reinforcer as a result of the evolutionary development of the species.
unconditioned negative reinforcer
A stimulus change that decreases the frequency of any behavior that immediately precedes it, irrespective of the organism’s learning history with the stimulus.
Unconditioned Punisher
A stimulus change that increases the frequency of any behavior that immediately precedes it, irrespective of the organism’s learning history with the stimulus.
unconditioned reinforcer
An alteration in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event as a result of a motivating operation.
value-altering effect
