Establishing Operations (EO)
You skipped lunch, and suddenly pizza looks irresistible.
What is an establishing operation (EO) for food?
After eating five slices of cake, dessert isn’t appealing anymore.
What is an abolishing operation (AO) for food?
These are the two types of value-altering effects.
What are establishing operations and abolishing operations?
After a 5-mile run, water becomes highly reinforcing.
What is an EO created by exercise and heat?
After binge-watching three hours of cartoons, watching more isn’t fun.
What is an AO for screen time?
Both EOs and AOs affect reinforcers in this way.
What is by changing their value?
An EO has this effect on reinforcer value.
What is increasing the effectiveness of a reinforcer?
An AO has this effect on reinforcer value.
What is decreasing the effectiveness of a reinforcer?
Being cold makes a blanket more valuable (EO). Being overheated makes a blanket less valuable (AO). Both illustrate this type of effect.
What is a value-altering effect?