Cooper (Ch. 16): Motivating Operations

abative effect
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abative effect
A decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation
abolishing operation (AO)
A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event. For example, the reinforcing effectiveness of food is abolished as a result of food ingestion.
behavior-altering effect
An alteration in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is altered in effectiveness by the same motivating operation.
conditioned motivating operation (CMO)
A motivating operation whose value-altering effect depends on a learning history. For example, because of the relation between locked doors and keys, having to open a locked door is a CMO that makes keys more effective as reinforcers, and evokes behavior that has obtained such keys.
surrogate
a __________________ is a substitute or stand-in
establishing operation (EO)
A motivating operation that increases the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer. For example, food deprivation makes food an effective reinforcer.
evocative effect
an increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation
function-altering effect
A relatively permanent change in an organism's repertoire of MO, stimulus, and response relations, caused by reinforcement, punishment, an extinction procedure, or a recovery from punishment procedure.
motivating operation (MO)
An environmental variable that (a) alters (increases or decreases) the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and (b) alters (increases or decreases) the current frequency of all behavior that have been reinforced by that stimulus, object, or event.
reflexive conditioned motivating operation (CMO-R)
A stimulus that acquires MO effectiveness by preceding some form of worsening or improvement. It is exemplified by the warning stimulus in a typical escape-avoidance procedure, which establishes its own offset as reinforcement and evokes all behavior that has accomplished that offset.
reinforcer-abolishing effectA decrease in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event caused by a motivating operation.reinforcer-establishing effectAn increase in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event caused by a motivating operation.surrogate conditioned motivating operation (CMO-S)A stimulus that acquires its MO effectiveness by being paired with another MO and has the same value-altering and behavior-altering effects as the MO with which it was paired.transitive conditioned motivating operation (CMO-T)an environmental variable that as a result of a learning history, establishes (or abolishes) the reinforcing effectiveness of another stimulus and evokes (or abates) the behavior that has been reinforced by that other stimulus.unconditioned motivating operation (UMO)A motivating operation whose value-altering effect does not depend on a learning history. For example, food deprivation increases the reinforcing effectiveness of food without the necessity of any learning history.MO unpairingPresenting the previously neutral stimulus (now CMO-S) without the effective MO or presenting the MO as often in the absence of the CMO-S as in its presence.value-altering effecteither (a) an increase in the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event, in which case the MO is an establishing operation (EO); or (b) a decrease in reinforcing effectiveness in which case the MO is an abolishing operation (AO).setting eventcomplex environmental condition that is likely to evoke certain voluntary behaviorsSDalter the differential availability of a currently effective form of reinforcement for a particular type of behavior tells you something that you wantMOalters the differential reinforcing effectiveness of a particular type of environmental event makes you want something