Vocab Exam Flashcards
A learned response elicited by the presentation of a conditioned stimulus.
Conditioned Response (CR)
There’s no such thing.
Forget Forgetting
Reinforce behavior, not people
Reinforce Behavior
Rats think
The simplistic Cognitivist Error (SCE)
People don’t think
The simplistic Behaviorist Error (SBE)
The doctrine that the mind causes behavior to occur
Mentalism
analogous behaviors are homologous behaviors
The Simplistic Biological Determinist Error (SBDE)
The simultaneous training of all links in a behavioral chain
Total-Task Presentation
A reinforcer follows a fixed number of responses
Fixed-Ratio
Behavior that more closely approximates terminal behavior
Intermediate Behavior
Withholding a reinforcer increases relevant learning and performance
Deprivation
Selecting a comparison stimulus corresponding to a sample stimulus.
Matching to Sample
Record or evidence that the behavior has occurred
Products of Behavior
To call a behavior or process a thing
The Error of Reification
The time from the beginning to the end of a response
Duration
The effects of our action determine whether we will repeat them.
The Law of Effect
A stimulus that precedes an aversive condition and thus becomes learned aversive stimulus
Warning Stimulus
A unlearned response elicited by the presentation of an unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned Response (UR)
An approach that attempts to modify behavior by modifying the cognitive structure
Cognitive Behavior Modification (CBM)
A stimulus that increases the future frequency of a response, its removal (termination) follows
Aversive Stimulus
The phase of an experiment or intervention where the behavior is measured in the absence of an intervention
Baseline
The occasion for a response, the response, and the outcome of the response
Behavioral Contingency
Pay is contingent on specific achievements
Pay for Performance
A condition not containing the presumed crucial value of the independent variable
Control Condition
A group of subjects exposed to the presumed crucial value of the independent variable
Experimental Group
A set of stimuli all of which have some common physical property
Stimulus Class
A reinforcer follows the response only once in a while
Intermittent Reinforcement
A reinforcer follows each response
Continuous Reinforcement (CRF)
The behavioral term for language
Verbal Behavior
A muscle, glandular, or neuro-electrical activity
Behavior
The study of the principles of behavior
Behavior Analysis
A set of skills
Repertoire
The physical properties of a stimulus
Stimulus Dimensions
Intensity of a response
Force
The doctrine that the mind is spiritual (nonphysical)
Spiritual Mentalism
Stimuli resulting from acts of aggression
Aggression Reinforcer
The physical properties of a response
Response Dimensions
Preventing the opportunity (or occasion) for a response
Forgetting Procedure
The use of no unnecessary concepts, principles, or assumptions.
Parsimony
Always pinpoint specific behaviors when you deal with a behavioral Be concrete or (psych) problem
Be concrete
If a dead nan can do it, it probably isn’t behavior.
Dead-Man Test
A stimulus that increased the frequency of a response it follows
Reinforcer (Positive Reinforcer)
The time from the beginning to the end of a resposne
Duration
The extent to which a research design eliminates confounding variables
Internal Validity
The continuing of a performance after it was first established
Performance maintenance.
A supplemental stimulus that raises the probability of a correct response.
Prompt
The frequency of responding before reinforcement
Operant Level
The doctrine that the world is divided into two parts, material and spiritual
Spiritualism
Private behavior (not visible to the outside behavior)
Covert Behavior
Behavior under the control of a rule
Rule-governed Behavior
A description of a behavioral contingency
Rule
the doctrine that physical (material) world is the only reality.
Materialism
