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| automaticity of reinforcement |
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| refers to the fact that behavior is modified by its consequences regardless of person's awareness of being reinforced |
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| in general an unpleasant or noxious stimulus; technically a stimulus change or condition that functions (a) to evoke a behavior that has terminated it in the past; (b) as a punisher when presented following behavior, and/or (c) as a reinforcer when withdrawn following behavior. |
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| portion of an organism interaction with its environment that is characterized by detectable displacement in space through time of some part of the organism and that the result is a measurable change in at least one aspect of the environment |
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| a technologically consistent method for changing behavior derived from one or more principles of behavior; possesses sufficient generality across subjects, settings, and/or behaviors to warrant its codification and dissemination |
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| a previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a punisher because of prior pairing with one or more punishers ; sometimes called secondary or learned punisher |
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| a learned stimulus-response functional relation consisting on an antecedent stimulus and the response it elicits; each person's repertoire of conditioned reflexes is the product of his or her history of interactions with the environment |
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| a stimulus change that functions as a reinforcer because of prior pairing with one or more other reinforcers; sometimes called secondary or learned reinforcers |
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| the stimulus component of a conditioned reflex; a formerly neutral stimulus change that elicits respondent behavior only after it has been paired with an unconditional stimulus (US) or another (CS) |
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| a stimulus change that follows a behavior of an interest. Some consequences, especially those that are immediate and relevant to current motivational states, have significant influence on future behavior; others have little |
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| refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables |
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| describes reinforcement (or punishment) that is delivered only after the target behavior has occurred |
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he state of an organism with respect to how much time has elapsed since it has consumed or contacted a particular type of reinforcer, also refers to a procedure for increasing effectiveness of a reinforcer |
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| an operant that occurs more frequently under some antecedent conditions than others |
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| a stimulus in the presence of which response of some type have been reinforced and in the absence of some type have been reinforced and in the absence of which the same type of response have occurred and not been reinforced |
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| The complex of physical circumstances in which the organism or referenced part of the organism exists. this includes any physical event or set of events that is not part of behavior and may include other parts of the organism |
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| the discontinuing of a reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior (i.e. responses no longer produce reinforcement); (primary effect decrease in the frequency of the behavior until it reaches a pre-reinforced level or ultimately ceases to occur) |
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| a decrease in responsiveness to repeated presentations of a stimulus |
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| higher order conditioning |
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| development of a conditioned reflex by pairing of a neutral stimulus (NS) with a conditioned stimulus (CS) (secondary conditioning) |
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| term referring to all of a person's learning experiences and more specifically to past conditioning |
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| motivating operation (MO) |
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| an environmental variable that (a) alters the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and (b) alters the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by the stimulus, object, or event |
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| a stimulus whose termination or deduction in intensity functions as reinforcement |
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| a stimulus change that does not elicit respondent behavior |
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| the history of the development of an individual organism during is lifetime |
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| behavior that is selected, maintained, and brought under stimulus control as a function of its consequences |
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| the basic process by which operant learning occurs |
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| the history of the natural evolution of a species |
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| occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions |
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| a statement describing a functional relation between behavior and one or more of its controlling variables with generality across organisms, species, settings, behaviors, and time |
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| a stimulus change that decreases the future frequency of behavior that immediately precedes it |
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| occurs when stimulus change immediately follows a response and decreases the future frequency of that type of behavior in similar conditions |
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| a stimulus-response relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the respondent behavior it elicits |
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| occurs when a stimulus change immediately follows a response and increases the future frequency of that type of behavior in similar conditions |
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| a stimulus change that increases the future frequency of behavior that immediately precedes it |
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