Unit 6

Question 1

A decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation.

Answer 1

Abative effect

Question 2

Antecedent stimuli that evoke the same response but do not resemble each other in physical form or share a relational aspect such as bigger or under.

Answer 2

Arbitrary stimulus class

Question 3

A behavior that prevents an aversive event.

Answer 3

Avoidance behavior

Question 4

A contingency in which a response prevents or postpones the presentation of a stimulus.

Answer 4

Avoidance contingency

Question 5

A mutually agreed-upon document between parties that specifies a contingent relationship between the completion of specific behaviors and access to reinforcers.

Answer 5

Behavior contract

Question 6

A written document that specifies a particular target behavior for a client and the consequences that will be contingent on the occurrence or nonoccurrence of the behavior in a stated period of time.

Answer 6

Behavioral contract

Question 7

The phenomenon in which a change in one component of a multiple schedule that increases or decreases the rate of responding on that component is accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule.

Answer 7

Behavioral contrast

Question 8

An action that has sudden and dramatic consequences that extend well beyond the idiosyncratic change itself, because it exposes the person to new environments, reinforcers, contingencies, responses, and stimulus controls.

Answer 8

Behavioral cusp

Question 9

An alteration in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is altered in effectiveness by the same motivating operation.

Answer 9

Behavior-altering effect

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Conditioned motivating operation

Question 11

Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables.

Answer 11

Contingency

Question 12

Exchanging the two reinforcement contingencies for two topographically different responses.

Answer 12

Contingency reversal

Question 13

Behavior that is purely a function of its consequences.

Answer 13

Contingency-shaped behavior

Question 14

Behavior that is purely a function of its consequences.

Answer 14

Escape behavior

Question 15

A contingency in which a response terminates (produces escape from) an ongoing stimulus.

Answer 15

Escape contingency

Question 16

Stimuli that share common physical forms or structures or common relative relationships.

Answer 16

Feature stimulus class

Question 17

A type of stimulus-to-stimulus relation in which the learner, without any prior training or reinforcement for doing so, selects a comparison stimulus that is the same as the sample stimulus (for example, A = A).

Answer 17

Reflexive conditioned motivating operation

Question 18

Behavior that is elicited, or induced, by antecedent stimuli.

Answer 18

Respondent behavior

Question 19

Behavior that is controlled by a verbal statement about a contingency between the behavior and a consequence.

Answer 19

Rule-governed behavior

Question 20

A stimulus that acquires its MO effectiveness by being paired with another MO and has the same value-altering and behavior-altering effects as the MO with which it was paired.

Answer 20

Surrogate conditioned motivating operation

Question 21

An environmental variable that, as a result of a learning history, establishes (or abolishes) the reinforcing effectiveness of another stimulus and evokes (or abates) the behavior that has been reinforced by that other stimulus.

Answer 21

Transitive conditioned motivating operation

Question 22

An alteration in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event as a result of a motivating operation.

Answer 22

Value-altering effect