PSY7709 Week 6 Terminology

Question 1

A decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation.

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abative effect

Question 2

A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.

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abolishing operation

Question 3

Antecedent stimuli that evoke the same response but do not resemble each other in physical form or share a relational aspect such as bigger or under.

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arbitrary stimulus class

Question 4

A behavior that prevents an aversive event.

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avoidance behavior

Question 5

A contingency in which a response prevents or postpones the presentation of a stimulus.

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avoidance contingency

Question 6

A mutually agreed-upon document between parties that specifies a contingent relationship between the completion of specific behaviors and access to reinforcers.

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behavior contract

Question 7

A written document that specifies a particular target behavior for a client and the consequences that will be contingent on the occurrence or nonoccurrence of the behavior in a stated period of time.

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behavioral contract

Question 8

The phenomenon in which a change in one component of a multiple schedule that increases or decreases the rate of responding on that component is accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule.

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behavioral contrast

Question 9

An action that has sudden and dramatic consequences that extend well beyond the idiosyncratic change itself, because it exposes the person to new environments, reinforcers, contingencies, responses, and stimulus controls.

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behavioral cusp

Question 10

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.

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behavior-altering effect

Question 11

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

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conditioned motivating operation

Question 12

Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables.

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contingency

Question 13

Exchanging the two reinforcement contingencies for two topographically different responses.

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contingency reversal

Question 14

Behavior that is purely a function of its consequences.

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contingency-shaped behavior

Question 15

Behavior that results in the termination of an aversive stimulus.

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escape behavior

Question 16

A contingency in which a response terminates (produces escape from) an ongoing stimulus.

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escape contingency

Question 17

Stimuli that share common physical forms or structures or common relative relationships.

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feature stimulus class

Question 18

A response behavior is followed immediately by the removal of a stimulus, or a decrease in the intensity of the stimulus, that decreases the future frequency of similar responses under similar conditions.

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negative punishment

Question 19

A type of reinforcement in which the occurrence of the behavior is followed by the removal or avoidance of an aversive stimulus.

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negative reinforcement

Question 20

Behavior that acts on the environment to produce an immediate consequence and, in turn, is strengthened by that consequence.

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operant behavior

Question 21

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 (for example, A = A).

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reflexive conditioned motivating operation

Question 22

Behavior that is elicited, or induced, by antecedent stimuli.

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respondent behavior

Question 23

A group of responses of varying typography, all of which produce the same effect on the environment.

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response class

Question 24

Behavior that is controlled by a verbal statement about a contingency between the behavior and a consequence.

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rule-governed behavior

Question 25

An environmental event that can be detected by one of the senses.

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stimulus

Question 26

A stimulus that acquires its MO effectiveness by being paired with another MO and has the same value-altering and behavior-altering effects as the MO with which it was paired.

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surrogate conditioned motivating operation

Question 27

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.

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transitive conditioned motivating operation

Question 28

An alteration in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event as a result of a motivating operation.

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value-altering effect