Chapter 7 ABA Terms Flashcards
Activity anorexia.
Following a period of food restriction, physical activity suppresses food intake and declining body weight increases activity.
Adjunctive behavior.
On interval schedules of reinforcement, or time-based delivery of food, organisms often show excessive behavior within the interreinforcement interval.
Biological context.
The evolutionary history and biological status of an organism, which are part of the context for specific environment–behavior interactions.
Conditioned taste preference.
When a taste or flavor CS is repeatedly associated with an appetitive US, in a choice test, animals prefer the solution with the CS-taste.
Facultative behavior.
Collateral behavior generated by properties of a schedule of reinforcement.
Polydipsia.
AKA excessive drinking is adjunctive behavior induced by the time-based delivery of food.
Stimulus substitution.
When a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus, the conditioned stimulus is said to substitute for the unconditioned stimulus.
Taste aversion learning.
When a distinctive taste is paired with nausea or sickness induced by a drug, X-ray, or even physical activity, the organism shows suppression of intake of the paired flavor.
