Key Players
Is responsible for establishing the field of experimental analysis of behaviour
Who is B.F. Skinner?
A stimulus is added following a behaviour leading to an increased frequency of that behaviour in the future
Positive reinforcement
Trained: A=B
Demonstrated: B=A
What is symmetry
A group of stimuli which all evoke the same response
What is a stimulus class
A behavioral test of equivalence which is met when a learner is able to select a comparison stimulus that is the same as the sample stimulus (such as M = M), without prior training or reinforcement
What is Reflexivity
Who is Thorndike?
A behavior that occurs more often in the presence of a stimulus than in its absence
a person responds accurately to untrained and nonreinforced stimulus-stimulus relations following training on different stimulus-stimulus relations.
A rat presses a lever when a light is on, but does not when the light is off
What is simple discrimination
Class merger, Class expansion
What are ways to expand an equivalence class
Conducted respondent conditioning experiments in lab-based studies with dogs
Who is Pavlov?
Avoidance or escape are types of this
Negatively reinforced behaviour
Reinforce probes for symmetry, transitivity or equivalence
What is something you never do when testing emergent relations?
Joe hits his teacher every time and only (IF AND ONLY IF) she asks him to wash his hands.
What is conditional discrimination
Amanda has a father who is a Garda. The last time her father was home, he was in uniform. Now, every time she sees a garda, she says, "Daddy!"
What is an example of generalisation?
Through extensive, effortful training, this non-human animal demonstrated stimulus equivalence.
Who is Rio the Sea Lion?
Removal of reinforcement for a previously reinforced response
What is Extinction
Trained: A=B; B=C
Demonstrated: A=C
An antecedent stimulus paired with reinforcement in operant conditioning
SD
A group of responses that produce the same effect on the environment
What is a response class?
Through reading instruction, found the acquisition of untrained, unreinforced relations following the training of related trained relations
Who is Murray Sidman?
Can have value altering and behaviour altering effects
Motivating Operation
AB + BC = CA
What is the critical test of stimulus equivalence?
What is the difference between an SD and an MO?
Sheep, cow and a pig as the same
What is an arbitrary stimulus class