SFF Terms Flashcards
Positive Reinforcement
Adding a reinforcing stimulus to the environment to increase a behavior occurring in the future.
Negative Reinforcement
Removing an aversive stimulus to the environment to increase a behavior occurring in the future.
Positive Punishment
Adding an aversive stimulus from the environment to decrease a behavior occurring in the future.
Negative Punishment
Removing a reinforcing stimulus from the environment to decrease a behavior occurring in the future.
Extinction
Withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.
Sd
The signal that reinforcement is available.
Motivating operations
environmental variables that alter the effectiveness of some stimulus as a reinforcer.
Establishing Operation (EO)
increases the current effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as reinforcement.
Abolishing Operation (AO)
decrease the current effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as reinforcement.
Antecedent
What happens immediately before the behavior.
Behavior
Objective description of anything an organism says or does.
Consequence
What happens immediately after the behavior.
Receptive
The ability to understand information.
Expressive
The ability to put thoughts into words and sentences (signs or symbols), in a way that makes sense.
Behavior Momentum
Presenting easier task before harder tasks to increase the chance of responding.