Lecture 2

Question 1

The activity of living organisms; human behaviour includes everything that people do.

Answer 1

Behaviour

Question 2

A single instance or occurrence of a specific class or type of behaviour

Answer 2

Response

Question 3

A group of responses that all have the same function

Answer 3

Response Class

Question 4

The physical form or shape of a behaviour

Answer 4

Topography

Question 5

Any physical event or set of events that is not part of a behaviour and may include oter parts of the organism

Answer 5

Environment

Question 6

A particular aspect of the environment that affects behaviour.

Answer 6

Stimuli

Question 7

A group of stimulus that share specified common elements along formal, temporal and functional dimensions

Answer 7

Stimulus Class

Question 8

Any behaviour whose future frequency is determined by its consequences.

Answer 8

Operant conditioning

Question 9

Classes of behaviour are called operants; The behaviour operates on the environment by obtaining consequences.

Answer 9

Operants

Question 10

An environmental condition or stimulus change exsisting or occurring prior to a behaviour of interest.

Answer 10

Antecedents

Question 11

A stimulus that follows behaviour and affects the probability that behaviour will occur again under similar circumstances

Answer 11

Consequence

Question 12

A dependent relationship between a response class and one or more stimulus classes

Answer 12

Contingency

Question 13

Antecedent- Behaviour- Consequence

Answer 13

Three term Contingency

Question 14

The addition of a stimulus after a behaviour that results in an increase in the probability of that behaviour occurring again under similar circumstances.

Answer 14

Positive Reinforcement

Question 15

The removal of a stimulus after a behaviour that results in an increase in the probability of that behaviour occurring again under similar circumstances.

Answer 15

Negative Reinforcement

Question 16

Reinforcer

Answer 16

Reinforcer

Question 17

R -Sr+

Answer 17

Two- Term contingency

Question 18

Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others

Answer 18

Automatic Reinforcement

Question 19

A reinforcer that does not depend on a relation to other reinforcers irrespective of the organisms learning history- warmth, love, food

Answer 19

Unconditioned Reinforcement

Question 20

A stimulus change that functions as a reinforcer because of prior pairing with one or more other reinforcers,

Answer 20

Conditioned reinforcer

Question 21

Is a conditioned reinforcer that as a result of having been paired with many unconditioned and conditioned reinforcers does not depend on current EO for any particular form of reinforcement for its effectiveness.

Answer 21

Generalized conditioned reinforcer