Unit 6 Flashcards
Behavioral efficiency: _____
Same or more reinforcement is produced for less effortful responses
Component skills: _____
Basic elements of higher-order skills
Composite skills: _____
Combination of 1 or more component skills to form a more complex response
Contingency-shaped behavior is: _____
Behavior acquired by direct experience
Rule-governed behavior is behavior primarily controlled by: _____
Verbal descriptions of an A-B-C contingency
Instructions: Steps to (3): _____
(1) Learn a skill
(2) Complete a task
(3) Reach a desired result
A rule is a: _____
Verbal account of the contingencies of behavior
Implicit rule: Antecedent, target behavior, or consequence are: _____
Missing or unclear
Explicit rule: Antecedent, target behavior, and consequence are: _____
Clearly described
An accurate rule: _____
Correctly describes contingencies to occur, given certain behavior
An inaccurate rule: _____
Incorrectly describes behavior-environment relation
A contingency contract (between 2+ parties) specifies the: _____
Consequence(s) that will follow completion of target behavior(s)
Response cost:
What is it?: _____
Response-contingent loss of appetitive stimuli
Response cost:
What does it do?: _____
Decreases the future frequency of specified or similar responses
Premack principle: _____
Low-p behavior is reinforced by opportunity to engage in high-p behavior
Group contingency:
Consequence for the group is contingent on (3): _____
(1) Individual member
(2) Subset of the group
(3) Whole group
Independent group contingency:
What is it?: _____
Single contingency in effect for all group members individually
Independent group contingency:
Who receives the reward?: _____
Individual members who meet the criterion
Dependent group contingency:
Who must meet the requirement?: _____
1 person or subset of group
Dependent group contingency:
Who receives the reward?: _____
All members of the group
Interdependent group contingency:
What is it?
All members earn the reward only if all members meet the criterion
Indiscriminable group contingency:
Cannot predict reward delivery based on: _____
(1) Group members
(2) Target behaviors
(3) Settings
(4) Rewards
(5) Times