The acquisition, maintenance, and change of an organism's behavior due to lifetime events.
What is learning?
An innate response elicited by a "US".
What is an unconditioned response?
Where behavior is followed by the removal of a stimulus event and the probability of that behavior reoccurring increases.
What is negative reinforcement?
A common negative punishment procedure where access to positive reinforcers is removed contingent on problem behavior.
What is time out?
Different responding in the presence of different stimuli.
What is discrimination?
Behavior that is strengthened or weakened by the consequences that follow it.
What is operant behavior?
The reduction of respondent behavior over repeated presentations of the eliciting stimulus.
What is habituation?
Smoke detector -> startle
(but over time)
Smoke detector -> no startle
A simple schedule of reinforcement that results in a high, steady rate of responding with little to no PRPs.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
In this type of contingency, a response terminates an aversive stimulus. E.g., you find your TA incredibly annoying so when they start talking to you, you run away.
What is escape?
SΔ : R → SR-
In the presence of the above stimulus, this consequence will follow.
What is extinction?
While considered to be a kind of behavior, these "events" are not considered causes of behavior.
What are private / covert behaviors?
The reduction and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response (CR) after repeated presentations of a conditioned stimulus (CS) without the unconditioned stimulus (US).
What is (respondent) extinction?
On a cumulative record, ____ is shown on the X axis and _____ is shown on the Y.
Positive punishment, negative reinforcement, and negative punishment are all considered forms of _____ control.
What is aversive control?
This type of reinforcement schedule is best used to study determinants of choice.
What is a concurrent schedule?
Behavior that increases or decreases based on the presentation of an antecedent.
What is respondent behavior?
An increase in responding at the beginning of an extinction session relative to previous sessions (usually after some time has passed).
What is spontaneous recovery?
This includes all operant responses that share a similar function.
What is an operant class?
For this example, assume that Lab Checks are an aversive stimulus. A student forgot there was a Lab Check today until someone reminded them 10 min before class. The student skips class. This is an example of ___________ avoidance.
What is discriminated avoidance?
This procedure involves decisions between smaller-sooner and larger-later rewards.
BONUS: Name one real-world correlate for the procedure.
What is delay discounting?
BONUS: problem gambling, risky sexual bx, ADHD diagnosis
An experimental result has generality when it can be observed in different contexts, organisms, and times. Generality is established by this.
What is replication?
Kento is being attacked by a goose. The goose honks at Kento for 2 s, pauses, and then attacks him, causing fear. After repeated honks + attacks, the honk alone begins to elicit fear. In this example, the honk is functioning as this.
BONUS: What kind of respondent conditioning procedure is this?
What is a CS?
BONUS: Trace conditioning
Ka'ala checks her phone once every 5 minutes (yikes). On average, every 20 minutes an email notification will be there when she checks it. Ka'ala's email checking behavior is being reinforced on this kind of schedule.
What is a VI 20 min schedule?
In this procedure, a learner is required to restore and improve the condition of the environment. E.g., A teenager breaks dishes intentionally so their mother has the kid sweep up all the broken dishes, mop the area, and replace the dishes.
What is overcorrection?
Erin is responding on a concurrent VI schedule on her laptop by left- and right-clicking. 10 reinforcers are available for left-clicking and 40 reinforcers are available for right-clicking. Erin would be expected to allocate this percentage of responding to right-clicking.
What is 80%?