Lecture 6 Flashcards
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An environmental variable that alters the reinforcing or puinshing effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event and alters the current frequency of all behaviour that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, obeject or event,
Motivating Operations
A motivating operation that establishes (increases) the effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event as a reinforcer.
Establishing Operations
A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object or event,
Abolishing Operations
An increase in the current frequency of behaviour that has been reinforced by some stimulus object or event
Evacotive effect
A decrease in the current frequency of behaviour that has been reinforced by some stimulus object or event.
Abative Effect
A motivating operation whose value-altering effect does not depend on a learning history. Example food- food deprivation increases reinforcing valueness without any learning history.
Unconditioned motivating operations
A motivating operation whose value altering effect depends on a learning history.
Conditioned motivating operation
A surrogate CMO is a previously neutral stimulus that following temporal association with a UMO or other CMO, independently alters the probability of associated behaviours
CMO-S
A transitive CMO-T refers to stimuli in the context of which the value of exsisting conditioned reinforcers or punishers are altered, as is the liklihood of behaviours occurring that have been associated with such consequences in the past.
CMO-T
A reflexive CMO-R is a previously neutral stimulus that acquires its motivative effect through correlation with a set of worsening or improvement conditions.
CMO-R
