Behavior Basics
This is a specific instance of behavior, usually defined by its topography.
What is a response?
Pairing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus leads to this type of conditioning.
What is respondent conditioning?
Adding a stimulus after a behavior that increases its future occurrence is this type of contingency.
What is positive reinforcement?
A child touches a hot stove and gets burned. The behavior of touching the stove decreases. This is an example of this.
What is positive punishment?
Hearing your phone buzz and checking it right away is an example of this phenomenon.
What is stimulus control?
This term refers to a group of responses that share the same effect on the environment.
What is a response class?
A child presses a button and hears music play. The button-pressing increases in the future. This is an example of what?
What is operant conditioning?
Escape from an aversive stimulus that increases behavior is this contingency.
What is negative reinforcement?
A teenager loses phone privileges after breaking curfew, and staying out late decreases. This is an example of this.
What is negative punishment?
A client receives reinforcement after every 5th correct response. This is an example of which schedule?
What is a fixed ratio 5 schedule?
A flash of light, the smell of popcorn, and the sound of a bell all belong to this category if they evoke the same response.
What is a stimulus class?
When the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus, this process occurs.
What is respondent extinction?
Getting a headache to go away by taking Advil is an example of this.
What is negative reinforcement?
A loud buzzer goes off every time someone speeds through a gate, and speeding decreases. This is this type of punisher.
What is an unconditioned punisher?
A client alternates between working with one teacher who uses praise and another who doesn’t, with different contingencies in place depending on the teacher. This is which type of schedule?
What is a multiple schedule?
Jumping, yelling, and waving arms all serve the same function: gaining attention. They would be classified as this.
What is a response class?
This type of extinction involves withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.
What is operant extinction?
Attention and tokens are examples of these types of reinforcers, which require learning.
What are conditioned reinforcers?
A parent gives their child “the look,” and the child immediately stops talking back. This is an example of what kind of punisher?
What is a conditioned punisher?
When two reinforcement schedules are available simultaneously and behavior is allocated between them, this is the schedule type.
What is a concurrent schedule?
This is the observable interaction between an organism and its environment.
What is behavior?
Salivating to the sound of a bell is an example of this; pressing a lever for food is an example of this.
What are respondent conditioning and operant conditioning?
Candy is given every 3rd correct response. This is an example of which schedule?
What is a fixed ratio 3 schedule?
A sarcastic comment that decreases future rude behavior would be an example of this type of punisher.
What is a generalized conditioned punisher?
A series of responses is required across linked components, with reinforcement delivered only at the end of the sequence. This is what schedule?
What is a chained schedule?