PSY7709 Week 6 Terminology Flashcards
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.
abative effect
A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.
abolishing operation
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.
arbitrary stimulus class
A behavior that prevents an aversive event.
avoidance behavior
A contingency in which a response prevents or postpones the presentation of a stimulus.
avoidance contingency
A mutually agreed-upon document between parties that specifies a contingent relationship between the completion of specific behaviors and access to reinforcers.
behavior contract
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.
behavioral contract
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.
behavioral contrast
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.
behavioral cusp
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 effect
A motivating operation whose value-altering effect depends on a learning history.
conditioned motivating operation
Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables.
contingency
Exchanging the two reinforcement contingencies for two topographically different responses.
contingency reversal
Behavior that is purely a function of its consequences.
contingency-shaped behavior
Behavior that results in the termination of an aversive stimulus.
escape behavior
A contingency in which a response terminates (produces escape from) an ongoing stimulus.
escape contingency
Stimuli that share common physical forms or structures or common relative relationships.
feature stimulus class
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.
negative punishment
A type of reinforcement in which the occurrence of the behavior is followed by the removal or avoidance of an aversive stimulus.
negative reinforcement
Behavior that acts on the environment to produce an immediate consequence and, in turn, is strengthened by that consequence.
operant behavior
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).
reflexive conditioned motivating operation
Behavior that is elicited, or induced, by antecedent stimuli.
respondent behavior
A group of responses of varying typography, all of which produce the same effect on the environment.
response class
Behavior that is controlled by a verbal statement about a contingency between the behavior and a consequence.
rule-governed behavior
An environmental event that can be detected by one of the senses.
stimulus
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.
surrogate conditioned motivating operation
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
An alteration in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event as a result of a motivating operation.
value-altering effect
