Task List B

Question 1

The activity of living organisms

-Human ? includes everything that people do

Answer 1

Behavior

Question 2

A single instance or occurrence of a specific class or type of bx
-Ex: a single instance of me clapping my hands, a single instance of me banging my head

Answer 2

Response

Question 3

A group of responses of varying topography, all of which produce the same effect on the environment, all have the same function
-They do not need to have the same topography, but they all achieve the same goal (function)
Example: communicating, texting, calling, DMing, snapping
-All of these bus achieve the same purpose or function, even if they look different, but are still part of the same response class

Answer 3

Response Class

Question 4

Everything around the organism

-Bx cannot occur in the absence of the ?

Answer 4

Environment

Question 5

An energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells (A.K.A.-the 5 senses)

• ? make up the environment
• Anything that you perceive through any of your senses (ex: colors, sounds, smells, textures, people)
• Literally, everything around you

Answer 5

Stimulus (singular) / Stimuli (plural)

Question 6

A group of stimuli that share a predetermined set of common elements in one or more of these dimensions

Answer 6

Stimulus class

Question 7

• The ? dimensions of the stimulus
• Size, color, intensity, weight, shape, prepositions
• Ex: sorting all things that are red, sorting all things that are big, sorting all things that are round, etc.)

Answer 7

Formal Stimulas Class

Question 8

• Where in time does the stimulus take place?
• All things that happen before the bx (A) or all the things that happen after (C)
• Ex: all the things that happen before you go to sleep (AKA bedtime routine), take a shower, moisturize face, put lotion on legs, watch friends, lay down in bed, cover yourself with sheets

Answer 8

Temporal Stimulus Class

Question 9

• The effects the stimuli have on bx (the ?)
• Stimuli that have the same effect on bx
• Ex: the same noise that functions as a prompt for you to check the clothes in the dryer may function as a warning signal to fasten your seat-belt in another setting
• So which stimuli serve the same ?
• All the things that wake you up in the morning
• All the things that signal for you to come to a stop while driving (ex: stop sign, red light, police officer)

Answer 9

Functional Stimulus Class

Question 10

-Watson
-Unlearned bc that is elicited by an antecedent stimuli
S-R
A-B
Phylogenic bx- natural selection in the history of the species; refers to bus that required no prior learning
Ex: when you accidentally touch a hot stove, you immediately move your hand away

Answer 10

Respondent bx

Question 11

-Skinner
-Learned bx that is evoked/emitted & required contact with consequences
-S-R-S
-A-B-C
-Ontogenic bx- selection of consequences during the lifetime of the individual
Ex: in the presence of your gmom, your money asking bx has usually been followed by receiving that money, you are likely to ask your gmom for money (A-B-C)

Answer 11

Operant bx