CHAPTER 5 Vocab A-F

Question 1

The formation of a new conditioned response tendency

Answer 1

Acquisition

Question 2

In behavior modification, event that typically precede the target response

Answer 2

Antecedents

Question 3

Orientations that locate objects of thought on dimensions of judgement

Answer 3

Attitudes

Question 4

Learning that has occurred when an organism engages in a response that prevents aversive stimulation from occurring

Answer 4

Avoidance learning

Question 5

A systematic approach to changing behavior through the application of the principles of conditioning

Answer 5

Behavior modification

Question 6

A written agreement outlining a promise to adhere to the contingencies of a behavior modification program

Answer 6

Behavioral contract

Question 7

A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to evoke a response that was orginally evoked by another stimulus

Answer 7

Classical conditioning

Question 8

Two or more reinforcement schedules that operate simultaneously and independently, each for a different response

Answer 8

Concurrent schedules of reinforcement

Question 9

Stimulus events that acquire reinforcing qualities by being associated with primary reinforcers

Answer 9

Conditioned response (CR)

Question 10

A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response

Answer 10

Conditioned stimulus (CS)

Question 11

Reinforcing every instance of a designated response

Answer 11

Continuous reinforcement

Question 12

A graphic record of reinforcement and responding in a Skinner box as a function of time

Answer 12

Cumulative recorder

Question 13

Cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequences (reinforcement or nonreinforcement) of a response

Answer 13

Discriminative stimuli

Question 14

Sending a weak electric current into a brain structure to stimulate it

Answer 14

ESB

Question 15

To draw or bring for

Answer 15

Elicit

Question 16

To send forth

Answer 16

Emit

Question 17

Forming a memory code

Answer 17

Encoding

Question 18

A type of learning in which an organism acquires a response that decreases or ends some aversive stimulation

Answer 18

Escape learning

Question 19

The gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency

Answer 19

Extinction

Question 20

A reinforcement schedule in which the reinforcer is given for the first response that occurs after a fixed time interval has elapsed

Answer 20

Fixed-interval schedule

Question 21

A reinforcement schedule in which the reinforcer is given after a fixed number of nonreinforced responses

Answer 21

Fixed-ration schedule