Set 1 Flashcards
Unconditioned Stimulus (1)
A stimulus that elicits a biological reflex (1)
Conditioned Stimulis (3)
A previously neutral stimulus (1)
Paired with an US (1)
Comes to elicit a reflex (1)
Respondent Conditioning (3)
US elicits UR (1)
NS-US pairing (1)
NS elicits CR (1)
Learning (4)
Acquisition, change and maintenance of behaviour (3) due to lifetime events (1)
Reflex (3)
Respondent behaviour (1)
Elicited by biologically relevant stimuli (1)
Can be conditioned (1)
Behaviour (2)
Everything an organism does (1)
Includes thinking and feeling (1)
Negative Punishment (3)
The removal of a positive stimulus (1)
Response cost (1)
Decreases the likelihood of a behaviour occurring again (1)
Discriminative Stimulus (2)
Antecedent (1)
Signals that consequences are available for a behaviour (1)
Respondent Extinction (2)
Presentation of the CS without the US (1)
Decline in the strength if the conditioned response (1)
Positive Reinforcement (2)
The application of a positive stimulus (1)
Increases the likelihood of a behaviour occurring again (1)
Positive Punishment (2)
The application of a negative stimulus (1)
Decreases the likelihood of a behaviour occurring again (1)
Negative Reinforcements (2)
The removal of a negative stimulus (1)
Increases the likelihood of a behaviour occurring again (1)
Operant Extinction (2)
Withholding of a previously available reinforcer (1)
Behaviour eventually stops (1)
Extinction Burst (4)
Increased frequency, intensity and variability of behaviour at the beginning of extinction (4)
Applied Behaviour Analysis (1)
The use of behavioural principles to solve practical problems (1)
Motivating Operation (3)
Context (1)
Changes the value of a reinforcer (1)
Establishes of abolishes (1)
Habituation (1)
Decrease in the UR following repeated presentation of the US (1)
Blocking (2)
Current CS blocks conditioning of a NS (1)
In a compound stimulus (1)
Latent Inhibition (1)
Familiar stimuli take longer to become CS (1)
Stimulus Generalisation (1)
The tendency to respond to stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus (1)
Stimulus Discrimilation (1)
Different responses to different stimuli (1)
Spontaneous Recovery (3)
Increased response magnitude (1)
to the US or the CS following (1)
Habituation or Respondent Extinction (1)
Shaping (1)
Reinforcing successive approximations of the target behaviour (1)
Intermittent Reinforcement (2)
Behaviour NOT reinforced every time (1)
MORE resistant to extinction (1)
Ratio Reinforcement Schedule (2)
Reinforcer provided after a number of responses (1)
Fixed or Variable (1)
Interval Reinforcement Schedule (2)
Reinforcer provided for FIRST response after a period of time (1)
Fixed or Variable (1)
Continuous Reinforcement Schedule (2)
Reinforcement provided after EVERY TIME a behaviour occurs (1)
LESS resistant to extinction (1)
Rule-Governed-Behaviour (3)
Governed by verbal rules (1)
Consequences not necessarily experienced directly (1)
Less sensitive to contingency changes (1)
Contingency-Shaped-Behaviour (2)
Shaped by consequences (1)
More sensitive to contingency changes (1)
Temporal discounting (2)
The value of a consequence decreases (1)
As the delay to the consequence increases (1)
Concurrent Reinforcement Schedule (1)
2 or more reinforcement schedules available simultaneously (1)
Four-Term Contingency (4)
Motivating Operation (1)
Discriminative Stimulus (1)
Behaviour (1)
Reinforcer/Punisher (1)
Three ways to measure behaviour (3)
Event Sampling (1) Time Sampling (1) Duration (1)
Verbal Behaviour (3)
Verbal, Written, or Signed (1)
Reinforced by the Verbal Community (1)
Functional (1)
Echoic (1)
Verbal behaviour that echos its proceeding verbal stimulus (1)
Functional Communication (2)
Teaching alternative ways to communicate (1)
Based on the function of the communication (1)
Tact (2)
Verbal behaviour that DOESN’T specify its reinforcer (1)
Maintained by social consequences (1)
Mand (2)
Verbal behaviour that specifies its reinforcer (1)
Like a demand (1)
Functional Behaviour Assessment (2)
Method for identifying the function of behaviour (1)
Identifying the ABCs (1)
Dimensions of ABA (7)
Applied (1) Behavioural (1) Analytic (1) Technological (1) Conceptually Systematic (1) Effective (1) General (1)
Reinforcement Sampling (1)
A procedure to introduce potential new reinforcers (1)
Token Economy (2)
Generalised secondary reinforcers (eg. tokens) (1)
Later exchanged for other reinforcers (1)
Fading (2)
Artificial prompts or cues are faded (1)
Leaving natural antecedents (1)
Chaining (2)
Combining 2 or more behaviours into a chain (1)
Forwards or backwards (1)
High-Probability Response Sequence (2)
Several low demand requests are followed by a high demand request (1) Behavioural momentum (1)
Differential Reinforcement Schedule (5)
Alternative (1) Other (1) Incompatible (1) Low rate (1) High rate (1)
Premak Principle (1)
Higher frequency behaviour may function as a reinforcer for lower frequency behaviour (1)
Response Deprivation Hypothesis (2)
Extends the Premak Principle (1)
Value of access to a behaviour is increased by deprivation (1)
