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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 antecedent | environmental conditions or stimulus changes that exist or occur prior to the behavior of interest |
| behavior | activity of living organisms; also includes interaction with environment |
| behavior change tactic | a technologically consistent method for changing behavior derived from one or more principles of behavior (e.g) differential reinforcement of other behavrio, reponse cost) possesses sufficient genrality across subjects, settings and or behaviors to warrant its codification and dessimination |
| conditioned punisher | a previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a punisher because of prior paring with other punishers; sometimes called secondary or learned punisher |
| conditioned reinforcer | a stimulus change that functions as a reinforcer because of prior paring with one or more other reinforcers |
| consequence | a stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest |
| habituation | gradually diminishing response strength |
| negative reinforcement | an already present stimulus removed from the environment or reduced in intensity causing the future frequency of the behavior to increase |
| ontogeny | the history of development of an individual organism during its lifetime |
| operant conditioning | the basic profess by which learning occurs; consequences (stimulus changes immediately follow responses) result in an increased (reinforcement) or decreased (punishment) frequency of the same type of behavior under similar motivational and enviromental conditions in the future |
| phylogeny | the history of the natural evolution of a species |
| positive reinforcement | occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a new stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions |
| principle of behavior | a statement describing a functional relation between behavior and one or more of its controlling variables with genrality across organism, species, settings, behavior, and time; an empirical generalization inferred from many experiments demonstrating the same functional relation |
| punishment | occurs when stimulus change immediatley follows a response and decreases the future frequency of that type of behavior in similar conditions |
| reinforcement | occurs when a stimulus change immediately follows a response and increases the future frequency of that type of behavior in similar conditions |
| repertoire | all of the behaviors a person can do. But a better definition is a set or collection of knowledge and skills a person has learned that are relevant to particular settings or tasks. |
| respondent | behavior that is elecited by antecedent stimuli |
| respondent conditioning | a stimulus-stimulus pairing procedure in which a neutral stimulus is presendent with an unconditioned stimulus until the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus that elicits the conditioned responses (Pavolve classical condition) |
| response | a single instance or occurrence of a specific class or type of behavior. A technical definition is an action of an organisms effector |
| response class | a group of responses with the same function. That is each response in the group produces the same effect on the environment |
| satiation | a decrease in the frequency of operant behavior presumed to be the result of continued contact with or compumption of a reinforcer that has followed the behaivior also refers to a procedure for reducting the effectiveness of a reinforcer |
| stimulus class | any group of stimuli sharing a predetermined set of common elements in one or more of these dimensions |
| stimulus control | a situation in which the frequency, latency, duration, or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus |
| three term contingency | the basic unit of analysis in the analysis of operant behavior; antecedent (A)-behavior (B)- consequence (C) |
| unconditioned punisher | a stimulus change that decreases the frequency of any behavior that immediatley precedes it irrespective of the organisms learning hisotry with the stimulus |
| unconditioned reinforcer | a stimulus change that increases the frequency of any behavior that immediately precedes it irrespective of the organisms learning history with the stimlus |
| temporal locus | way behavior can be measured. It is when in time a specified behavior occurs |
| temporal extent | a way behavior can be measured. the duration of a given behavioral event |
| repeatability | way behavior can be measured. It is the frequency with which a specified behavior occurs over time |
| function | alters the current value of stimulus changes as reinforcement or punishment (satiation or deprivation) |
| operant behavior | any behavior whose future frequency is determined primarily by its history of consequences |
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