Elicited and Emitted Behavior
The reliable production of a response by a stimulus in unconditional or conditional reflexes.
What is elicitation?
A less probable response can be reinforced by the opportunity to engage in a more probably response.
What is Premack's princple?
What is punishment?
A reliable relation between a stimulus and the behavior it produces
What is reflex?
A stimulus that functions as a reinforcer because of its contingent relation to another reinforcer.
What is conditional/conditioned reinforcer?
The termination of an aversive stimulus by a response.
What is escape?
A response that occurs without an eliciting stimulus is said the be______________.
What is emitted?
Reinforcer that has an arbitrary relation to the responses that produce it (a musician plays for money).
What is extrinsic reinforcer?
A stimulus is a __________ ___________ if its presentation increases responding.
What is a positive reinforcer?
The probability of one event given another event.
What is conditional probability?
A reinforcer that is naturally related to the responses that produce it (when a musician plays because the playing produces music).
What is intrinsic reinforcer?
A stimulus is a _________ __________ if its removal increases responding that terminates it.
What is negative reinforcer?
The lowering or cessation of responding after repeated exposure to a stimulus.
What is habituation?
The effectiveness of a reinforcer depends on its relation to the responses that produce it. Teacher tells jokes and the students laugh- laughing reinforced joke telling. Teacher says a pun and the students laugh- laughing punished punning.
What is relativity of reinforcement?
The prevention of an aversive stimulus by a response.
What is avoidance?