Name that Breed
Scooby Doo
What is a Great Dane?
This term describes the tendency for a behavior to be stronger or more resistant to extinction when it has been reinforced intermittently rather than continuously.
What is the partial reinforcement effect?
It's the genetic contribution to a variation in behavior within a population.
What is heritability?
This procedure determines the conditions under which behavior problems occur.
What is functional analysis?
This schedule of reinforcement reinforces a behavior after every correct response.
What is a continuous reinforcement schedule?
Toto
What is a Cairn Terrier?
This term describes a decrease in responding when reinforcement is delivered regardless of behavior, weakening the behavior- reinforcer relationship.
What is non-contingent reinforcement?
This evolutionary process occurs when traits that improve survival or reproduction become more common in a population over generations.
What is natural selection?
This type of reinforcer has no inherent biological value, but gains its reinforcing properties through repeated association with a primary reinforcer.
What is a secondary or conditioned reinforcer?
This schedule delivers reinforcement after an unpredictable number of responses and produces high, persistent behavior.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
Beethoven
What is a Saint Bernard?
A dog learns to respond differently to two similar stimuli - for example, sitting when cued by a hand signal, but not when a different hand gesture is used. This process is known as what?
What is discrimination?
This evolutionary process refers to random changes in gene frequency, especially in small populations, not driven by survival advantage.
What is genetic drift?
This process teaches a dog that acceptable behaviors result in rewards, while undesirable behaviors do not.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behaviors?
What is a fixed interval schedule?
Pongo & Perdita
What is a Dalmatian?
A dog who has just eaten a full meal shows a decreased interest in food rewards during training, making food less motivating.
What is an Abolishing Operation?
Dogs bred for guarding livestock often show these behaviors without the need for training.
What is instinctual behavior?
This term describes a learned emotional response after repeated pairing of a neutral stimulus with a pleasant or aversive stimulus.
What is a CER (Conditioned Emotional Response)?
This effect explains why behaviors trained on intermittent reinforcement are more resistant to extinction than those reinforced continuously.
What is the partial reinforcement effect?
Bluey
What is a Blue Heeler or Australian Cattle Dog?
This term describes a stimulus that signals the availability of reinforcement for a particular behavior, increasing the likelihood that the behavior will occur in its presence.
What is discriminative stimulus?
This term describes traits that are expressed differently depending on environmental conditions, despite the same genetic code.
What is phenotypic plasticity?
An increased probability that a behavior will occur as a result of the presence of an antecedent stimuli is called this.
What is stimulus control?
This term refers to reinforcement that maintains a behavior that has already been learned, rather than helping to establish it.
What is maintenance reinforcement?