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| value altering, behavior altering, MO can make things either more likely or less likely |
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An increase in the reinforcing effectiveness of some stim., object or event = EO
A decrease in reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event - AO |
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| Behavior altering effects |
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| evocative or abative, not simply related to frequency (can be magnitude, latency or frequency) |
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| increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus, ob. or event |
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| decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object or event |
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| behavior altering effects operate - |
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| operate on current frequency of the behavior, deal with antecedent variables (MO's, Sd's), can evoke or abate responses but not alter them |
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| function altering effects |
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| operate on FUTURE frequency of behavior, consequence variables, change repertoire of functional relations |
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| MO's and Sd's, alter the current frequency of the behavior, operant variables (control response frequency due to their relation to reinforcing or punishing consequences) |
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| temporarily make a stimulus more reinforcing (eating salty chips temporarily makes a liquid to drink more reinforcing) |
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| temporarily make a stimulus less reinforcing (eating a whole bag of potato chips temporarily makes potato chips less reinforcing) |
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| unconditioned motivating operations |
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| deprivation and satiation, sexual reinforcement, temperature changes, painful stimulation |
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