Unit 5

Question 1

A group of stimuli in which the frequency, latency, duration, or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus.

Answer 1

Stimulus control

Question 2

A motivating operation whose value-altering effect does not depend on a learning history.

Answer 2

Unconditioned motivating operations

Question 3

A motivating operation whose value-altering effect depends on a learning history.

Answer 3

Condition motivating operations

Question 4

An antecedent stimulus which evokes or abates a specific behavior, due to a past history of differential availability of reinforcement or punishment for that behavior, dependent on their presence versus there absence.

Answer 4

Discriminative Stimulus

Question 5

An environmental variable that alters the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and alters the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object, or event.

Answer 5

Motivating operation

Question 6

The basic process by which operant learning occurs.

Answer 6

Operant conditioning

Question 7

Behavior is likely to occur now, under the current conditions.

Answer 7

Evoke

Question 8

Behavior is NOT likely to occur under the current conditions.

Answer 8

Abate

Question 9

Reinforcing only those responses within a response class that meet a specific criterion along some dimension(s) and placing all other responses in the class on extinction.

Answer 9

Differential reinforcement

Question 10

When differential reinforcement consists of reinforcing some responses and not reinforcing other responses.

Answer 10

Differentiation

Question 11

When differential reinforcement consists of reinforcing a response when certain stimuli are present and not reinforcing the same response when those stimuli are not present.

Answer 11

Discrimination

Question 12

The tendency of behavior to occur more frequently in the presence of a particular stimulus because the behavior has been reinforced only or mostly in the presence of that stimulus.

Answer 12

Discriminative Control

Question 13

An operant class that is established through the process of differential reinforcement with respect to the presence or absence of antecedent stimuli.

Answer 13

Discriminated Operant

Question 14

Discriminative stimulus for reinforcement; Evokes behavior because in the past that behavior has been reinforced in it’s presence.

Answer 14

S^D for SR

Question 15

Discriminative stimulus for extinction; Abates behavior because in the past that behavior has NOT been reinforced in it’s presences.

Answer 15

S^(triangle) for SR (crossed out)

Question 16

Discriminative stimulus for punishment; Abates behavior because in the past that behavior has been punished in its presence.

Answer 16

S^DP for SP

Question 17

Discriminative stimulus for withholding punishment; Evokes behavior because in the past that behavior has NOT been punished in its presence.

Answer 17

S^(traingle)P for SP(crossed out)

Question 18

Discriminative Stimulus for Positive Reinforcement

Answer 18

S^DR+

Question 19

Discriminative Stimulus for Negative Reinforcement

Answer 19

S^DR-

Question 20

Discriminative Stimulus for Extinction of Behavior Maintained by Positive Reinforcement

Answer 20

S^(triangle)R+

Question 21

Discriminative Stimulus for Extinction of Behavior Maintained by Negative Reinforcement

Answer 21

S^(triangle)R-

Question 22

Discriminative Stimulus for Positive Punishment

Answer 22

S^DP+

Question 23

Discriminative Stimulus for Negative Punishment

Answer 23

S^DP-

Question 24

Discriminative Stimulus for Unavailability of Postive Punishment

Answer 24

S^(triangle)P+

Question 25

Discriminative Stimulus for Unavailability of Negative Punishment.

Answer 25

S^(triangle)P-

Question 26

A discrimination in which reinforcing a response is contingent (conditional) on another stimulus.

Answer 26

Conditional Discrimination

Question 27

The tendency of a learned response to occur in the presence of stimuli which were not present during training but which either have some similar physical properties to the S^D or have been associated with the S^D

Answer 27

Stimulus Generalization