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| A technique for training sequences of behaviors by starting at the response closest to the terminal/final reinforcer [which for nonhumans is typically an unconditioned reinforcer] |
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| Chain schedule of reinforcement |
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| Two or more simple schedules presented sequentially with separate discriminative stimuli for each schedule |
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| Concurrent-chain schedule |
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| Two or more independent by simultaneously available chain schedules |
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| Conditioned reinforcement |
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| When the future rate/probability of a response is increased because it has been followed by a stimulus or event that acquired the ability to function as a reinforcer due to the organism's conditioning history associating it with another reinforcers |
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| A stimulus or event that has acquired the ability to function as a reinforcer due to the organism's conditioning history associating it with another reinforcer |
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| Delay-reduction hypothesis |
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| Stimuli that signal a decrease in the overall time to reinforcement will serve as conditioned reinforcers |
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| Discriminative-stimulus account of conditioned reinforcement |
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| The idea that it is necessary for a stimulus to be an SD in order to be a conditioned reinforcer |
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| Established-response method |
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| A technique for testing the effectiveness of a stimulus or events as a conditioned reinforcer by presenting it following an established response to see if it maintains or increases the rate/probability of that response |
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| Exchange-production schedule |
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In a token economy, the schedule according to which exchange periods (the periods during which tokens can be exchanged for other reinforcers) are earned
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| Generalized conditioned reinforcement |
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| When the future rate/probability of a response is increased because it has been followed by a stimulus or event that acquired the ability to function as a reinforcer due to the organism's conditioning history associating it with more than one other reinforcer |
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| Generalized conditioned reinforcer |
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| A stimulus or event that has acquired the ability to function as a reinforcer due to the organism's conditioning history associating it with amore than one other reinforcer |
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| Generalized social reinforcement |
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| A special class of generalized conditioned reinforcers where the stimulus/event involves social interaction |
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| Heterogeneous chain schedule |
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| Chain schedule of reinforcement where the topography of responses are different in each component |
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| Homogeneous chain schedule |
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| Chain schedule of reinforcement where the topography of the responses are similar in each component |
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| Information account of conditioned reinforcement |
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| A [now largely discounted] hypothesis that suggested a stimulus becomes a conditioned reinforcer if it provides information about the occurrence of other reinforcement |
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| Mixed schedule of reinforcement |
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| Two or more schedules that are not associated with unique discriminative stimuli are alternated in a regular or irregular pattern |
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| A technique for testing the effectiveness of a stimulus or event as a conditioned reinforcer by using it to train a new operant |
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| An operant that produces or clarifies a discriminative stimulus and is maintained by the effectiveness of the discriminative stimulus to function as a conditioned reinforcer |
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| S-S account of conditioned reinforcement |
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| The idea that conditioned reinforcers are a result of the stimulus-stimulus pairings that characterize respondent conditioning |
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| Two [or more] schedules of reinforcement where requirements of one schedule are reinforced according to requirements of the other |
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| Two or more simple schedules presented sequentially without separate discriminative stimuli for each schedule |
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| A type of generalized conditioned reinforcer that can be stored and later exchanged for other reinforcers |
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| A system where conditioned reinforcers can be earned, stored, and later exchanged for other reinforcers |
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| In a token economy, the schedule according to which earned tokens can be exchanged for other reinforcers (i.e., how many tokens are needed to get the other reinforcers) |
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| Token-production schedule |
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| In a token economy, the schedule according to which tokens are earned for target responses |
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| A stimulus or event that has acquired the ability to function as a reinforcer due to the organism's phylogenetic history |
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