Unit 2 Flashcards
Effects of motivating operations
- Value-altering effect
* Behavior-altering effect
Motivating operations (MOs)
An antecedent condition that momentarily alters a consequence as an effective reinforcer or punisher (value-altering effect), and evokes or abates behavior that has been followed by these consequences in the past (behavior-altering effect).
Types of motivating operations
- Establishing operations
* Abolishing operations
Establishing operations (EOs)
An antecedent condition that momentarily establishes a consequence as an effective reinforcer or punisher (establishing effect), and evokes or abates behavior that has been followed by these consequences in the past (behavior-altering effect).
Abolishing operations (AOs)
An antecedent condition that momentarily abolishes a consequence as an affective reinforcer or punisher (abolishing effect), and evokes or abates behavior that has been followed by these consequences in the past (behavior-altering effect).
Discriminative stimulus for reinforcement
SD
“A stimulus that evokes behavior because in the past that behavior has been reinforced in its presence.”
Discriminative stimulus for extinction (SΔ)
“A stimulus that abates behavior because in the past that behavior has been extinguished in its presence.”
Discriminative stimulus for punishment (SDP)
“A stimulus that abates behavior because in the past that behavior has been punished in its presence.”
Discriminative control (stimulus control)
The tendency of behavior to occur more or less frequently in the presence of a stimulus because the behavior has been reinforced or punished only or mostly in the presence of that stimulus.
Discriminative stimulus
An antecedent stimulus which evokes or abates an operant because in its presence the relation between the response and an effective consequence was different from what it was in its absence. The change only persists as long as the discriminative stimulus is present.
Types of discriminative stimuli
- SD
- S∆
- SDP
Effect of discriminative stimuli
• Behavior-altering effect (evoke or abate behavior).
Types of establishing operations
- Establishing operation related to reinforcement
* Establishing operation related to punishment
Types of abolishing operations
- Abolishing operations related to reinforcement
* Abolishing operations related to punishment
Establishing operations related to reinforcement
An antecedent condition which increases the value of other events as forms of reinforcement (reinforcer-establishing effect). They evoke the type of behavior which has been reinforced by those events in the past (evocative effect).
