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| Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others (scratching an insect bite relieves the itch) |
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| Behavior is modified by its consequences irrespective of the person's awareness |
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| Unpleasant stimulus; a stimulus change that functions to evoke a behavior that has terminated it in the past; as a punished when presented following behavior and as a reinforcer when withdrawn following behavior |
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| The portion of an organism's interaction with environment that is characterized by detectable displacement in space through time of some part of the organism and of the environment |
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| A stimulus change that functions as a reinforcer because of prior pairing with one or more other reinforcers |
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| A formerly neutral stimulus change that elicits respondent behavior only after it has been pair with an unconditioned stimulus or another conditioned stimulus |
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| Dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables |
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| Amount of time that has passed since an organism has last consumed or contacted a particular reinforcer |
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| An operant that occurs more frequently under some antecedent conditions than under others |
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| An antecedent stimulus that signals that a particular behavior will be reinforced. |
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| Discontinuing of reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior |
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| A decrease in responsiveness to repeated sensations of stimuli |
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| Negative punishment/Type II Punishment |
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| A response behavior is followed immediately by the removal of stimulus (or a decrease in the intensity of the stimulus), that decreases future frequency of similar responses under similar conditions |
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| a stimulus whose termination (or reduction in intensity) functions as reinforcement |
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| The history of the development of an organism during its lifetime |
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| The history of the natural evolution of a species |
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| Positive Punishment/Type I Punishment |
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| A behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that decreases future frequency of behavior |
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| Occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that increases future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions |
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| A stimulus change that decreases the future frequency of behavior that immediately precedes it |
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| A S-R relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the respondent behavior it elicits (bright light = pupil contraction) |
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| All the behaviors a person can do/a set of behaviors relevant to a particular setting or task |
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| The response component of a reflex; behavior that is elicited by antecedent stimuli |
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| Respondent Conditioning (Pavlov) |
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| A stimulus-stimulus pairing procedure where a neutral stimulus is presented with an unconditioned stimulus until the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus that elicits a conditioned response |
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| A single instance or occurrence of a specific behavior of a specific class or type of behavior |
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Decrease in frequency of operant behavior presumed to be the result of continued contact with of consumption of a reinforcer that has followed that behavior; also reduced the effectiveness of a reinforcer -- when a reinforcer loses its effect due to overuse.
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| An energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells |
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| Group of stimuli that share specified common elements along formal (size, color), temporal (antecedent or consequent), and/or functional dimensions (discriminative stimulus). |
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| The frequency, latency, duration or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus |
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| Unconditioned Reinforcement |
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| A stimulus change that increases the frequency of a behavior that immediately precedes it irrespective of the organism's learning history with the stimulus |
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