Unit 5 SAFMEDS

Question 1

2 Variable attributes of antecedents

Answer 1

can be either outside or within the skin of the organism, can be social or non-social

Question 2

2 basic types of antecedents

Answer 2

Discriminative Stimuli (SD) and Motivating Operations (MOs)

Question 3

Unconditioned motivating operation

Answer 3

a motivating operation whose value-altering effect does not depend on a learning history

Question 4

Conditioned motivating operation

Answer 4

a motivating operation whose value-altering effect depends on learning history

Question 5

2 types of effects antecedents have on behavior

Answer 5

Evocative (evoke behavior) or Abative (abate behavior)

Question 6

Operant conditioning

Answer 6

the basic process by which operant learning occurs

Question 7

Evocative Effect

Answer 7

an increase in the momentary frequency of a response class now, under the current conditions

Question 8

Abative effect

Answer 8

a decrease in the momentary frequency of a response class now, under the current conditions

Question 9

Differential reinforcement

Answer 9

reinforcing only those responses within a response class that meet a specific criterion along some dimension(s) and placing all other responses int he class extinction

Question 10

Differentiation

Answer 10

when differential reinforcement consists of reinforcing some responses and not reinforcing other responses

Question 11

Discrimination

Answer 11

when differential reinforcement consists of reinforcing a response when certain stimuli are present and not reinforcing the same response when those stimuli are not present

Question 12

Stimulus Control (Discriminative Control)

Answer 12

the tendency of behavior to occur more frequently in the presence of a particular stimulus because the behavior has been reinforced only or mostly in the presence of that stimulus

Question 13

Discriminated Operant

Answer 13

an operant class that is established through the process of differential reinforcement with respect to the presence or absence of antecedent stimuli

Question 14

Discriminative stimulus (SD)

Answer 14

an antecedent stimulus that evokes or abates a specific behavior, due to a past history of differential availability of reinforcement or punishment for that behavior, dependent on their presence versus their absence

Question 15

Conditional Discrimination

Answer 15

a discrimination in which reinforcing a response is contingent (conditional) on another stimulus

Question 16

Stimulus Generalization

Answer 16

the tendency of a learned response to occur in the presence of a stimuli which were not present during training but either have some similar physical properties to the SD or have been associated with the SD