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| stimulus change prior to behavior |
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| Automacity of Reinforcement |
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| reinforcement does not need to be obvious to have an effect |
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| stimulus whose termination serves as reinforcement |
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| research based method for changing behavior, based on functional relations |
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| stimulus that decreases future probability of behavior due to pairing |
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| learned stimulus-response functional relation |
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| stimulus that increases future probability of behavior due to pairing |
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| Conditioned Stimulus (CS) |
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| stimulus elicits response because of pairing |
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| stimulus change after behavior |
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| temporal or functional relation between behavior and antecedent or consequent variables |
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| dependency of a particular consequence on occurrence of a behavior |
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| increasing effectiveness of reinforcer by limiting access to it |
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| operant that occurs more frequently under specific antecedent conditions |
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| Discriminated Stimulus (sD) |
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| stimulus with history of differential reinforcement that increases frequency of behavior |
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| circumstances in which organism exists |
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| reinforcement withheld for previously reinforced response |
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| gradually diminishing response strength |
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| Higher Order Conditioning |
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| Pairing neutral stimulus (NS) with conditioned stimulus (CS) |
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| how each organism's behavior has been selected, shaped, and maintained by history of reinforcement |
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| variable that alters reinforcing effect of a stimulus |
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| stimulus removed, increases future probability of behavior |
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| stimulus that does not elicit response |
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| history of individual organism |
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| behavior elicited by history of consequences |
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| effect of consequences on behavior |
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| stimulus presented, increases future probability of behavior |
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| functional relation between behavior and controlling variable |
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| stimulus that decreases probability of future responding |
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| stimulus change follows a behavior, decreases future probability of behavior |
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| evolved response to stimuli for survival |
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| stimulus change follows a response, increases future probability of behavior |
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| stimulus that increases probability of future responding |
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| set of skills relevant to specific task |
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| behavior elicited by antecedent stimuli (response to sD) |
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| Presenting conditioned stimulus (CS) without unconditioned stimulus (US) to weaken parining |
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| specific instance of behavior |
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| group of responses with same function |
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| Selection by Consequences |
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| operant behavior is under control of consequences throughout an organism's lifetime |
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| two stimuli presented together, one acquires function of other |
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| energy change that affects organism |
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| group of stimuli sharing common elements |
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| behavior is altered by a specific antecedent stimulus |
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| Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence |
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| stimulus that decreases future probability of behavior without pairing |
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| stimulus that increases future probability of behavior without pairing |
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| Unconditioned Stimulus (US) |
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| stimulus elicits response without prior learning |
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