Exam 1

Question 1

behavior taxonomy

Answer 1

a way to talk about the behavior we influence and how we influence it

Question 2

behavioral processes

Answer 2

outcomes; changes in behavior

Question 2

experimental operations

Answer 2

procedures for studying/changing behavior (manipulating the environment)

Question 3

releasing stimulus

Answer 3

the events required to initiate a fixed action pattern

Question 3

fixed action pattern

Answer 3

a sequence of behavior (connected movements) that are phylogenic in origin

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reinforcing consequence

Answer 4

those that increase the future probability of a response

Question 5

punishing consequence

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those that decrease the future probability of a response

Question 6

consequation

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what you did (or will do), contingent on behavior

Question 6

anthropomorphism

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attributing human characteristics to non-human organisms

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learning

Question 7

establishing operation

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the effectiveness of a consequence as a reinforcer or punisher is established

Question 8

discriminative stimulus

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an antecedent stimulus that can evoke a specific operant response because the individual has learned that when the S^D is present, that response will be reinforced

Question 9

materialism

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behavior is caused by observable, measurable, and/or manipulatable variables

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determinism

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behavior is caused by a combination of nature and nurture

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prediction

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control

Question 13

the principle of parsimony

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when there are competing explanations for a phenomenon, always choose the simpler account

Question 14

responses

Question 15

stimuli

Question 16

covert behavior

Question 17

natural selection

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artificial selection

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humans are involved

Question 19

ontogeny

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changes across lifetime

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phylogeny

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changes across history

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meme

Answer 21

an idea or style that is spread from person to person in a culture

Question 22

3 levels of selection

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stimulus

Question 24

response

Question 25

elicited behavior

Question 26

emitted behavior

Question 27

reflex

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reflex strength

Question 29

habituation

Question 30

potentiation (sensitization)

Question 31

neutral stimulus

Question 32

conditioned stimulus

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conditioned response

Question 34

unconditioned stimulus

Question 35

unconditioned response

Question 36

respondent conditioning

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delay conditioning

Question 38

simultaneous conditioning

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trace conditioning

Question 40

backward conditioning

Question 41

respondent extinction

Question 42

overt behavior

Question 43

3 types of EOs