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| Any environmental variable that either alters the effectiveness of some stimulus object or event as a reinforcer, and alters the current frequency of all behaviorthat has been reinforced by that stimulus, object, or event. |
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| An environmental variable that (a) alters the effect of the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event; and (b) alters the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced by that variable. This term is the newer term related to EO |
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| Either an increase or decrease in the reinforcing effectiveness |
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| Motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object or event |
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| An increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation. |
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| A decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation |
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| Recovery from Punishment Procedure |
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| The occurence of a previously punished type of response without its punishing consequence |
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| Reinforcer- Establishing Effect |
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| An increase in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event caused by a motivating operation |
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| Reinforcer- Abolishing Effect |
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| A decrease in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event caused by a motivating operation |
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| Conditioned Motivating Operation |
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| A motivating operation whose value altering effect depends on a learning history |
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| Surrogate Conditioned Motivating Operation |
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| A stimulus that acquires its MO effectiveness by being paired with another MO and has the same value-altering and behavior altering effects as the MO with which it was paired. |
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| Reflexive Conditioned Motivating Operation |
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| A stimulus that acquires MO effectiveness by preceding some form of worsening or improvement. It is exemplpified by the warning stimulus in a typical escape-avoidance procedure, which estabslishes its own offset as reinforcement and evokes all behavior that has accomplished that offset. |
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| Transitive Conditioned Motivating Operation |
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| An environmental variable that, as a result of a learning history, establishes or abolishes the reinforcing effectiveness of another stimulus and evokes or abates the behavior that has been reinforced by that other stimulus |
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| The occurence alone of a stimulus that acquired its function by being paired with an already effective stimulus OR the occurence of the stimulllus in the absence as well as in the presence of the effective stimulus. |
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