Chapter 4: ABA Terms Flashcards
Spontaneous recovery (operant)
An increase in responding following a period of extinction in which an organism’s rate of response had decreased or was at or close to operant level. Over repeated contact with the extinction contingency, the amount of recovery (increase in R) decreases.
Reinstatement (of behavior).
The recovery of behavior when the reinforcer is presented alone (response independent) after a period of extinction.
Contingency of reinforcement.
A definition of the relationship between the occasion, the operant class, and the consequences that follow the behavior.
Differential reinforcement.
In discrimination procedures, differential reinforcement involves reinforcement of an operant in the presence of one stimulus (SD) but not in the presence of other stimuli/settings (SΔ). The organism comes to emit the operant when the SD is presented and not emit the operant in its absence/presence of the SΔ .
Operant
An operant is behavior that operates on the environment to produce a change, effect, or consequence.
Partial reinforcement effect.
Partial (or intermittent) reinforcement schedules generate greater resistance to extinction than continuous reinforcement (CRF).
Extinction (behavioral process).
A decline in the frequency of the operant when there is a break in the contingency between an operant and its consequence
Extinction (procedure).
The breaking of the contingency between an operant and its consequence.
Negative punishment.
The removal of a stimulus following a response that decreases the frequency of that response under similar conditions
Positive punishment.
The addition of a stimulus following a response that decreases the frequency of that response under similar conditions
Negative reinforcement.
The removal of a stimulus following a response that increases the frequency of that response under similar conditions
Positive Reinforcement.
The addition of a stimulus following a response that increases the frequency of that response under similar conditions
