Vocab Exam

Question 1

A learned response elicited by the presentation of a conditioned stimulus.

Answer 1

Conditioned Response (CR)

Question 2

There’s no such thing.

Answer 2

Forget Forgetting

Question 3

Reinforce behavior, not people

Answer 3

Reinforce Behavior

Question 4

Rats think

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The simplistic Cognitivist Error (SCE)

Question 5

People don’t think

Answer 5

The simplistic Behaviorist Error (SBE)

Question 6

The doctrine that the mind causes behavior to occur

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Mentalism

Question 7

analogous behaviors are homologous behaviors

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The Simplistic Biological Determinist Error (SBDE)

Question 8

The simultaneous training of all links in a behavioral chain

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Total-Task Presentation

Question 9

A reinforcer follows a fixed number of responses

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Fixed-Ratio

Question 10

Behavior that more closely approximates terminal behavior

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Intermediate Behavior

Question 11

Withholding a reinforcer increases relevant learning and performance

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Deprivation

Question 12

Selecting a comparison stimulus corresponding to a sample stimulus.

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Matching to Sample

Question 13

Record or evidence that the behavior has occurred

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Products of Behavior

Question 14

To call a behavior or process a thing

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The Error of Reification

Question 15

The time from the beginning to the end of a response

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Duration

Question 16

The effects of our action determine whether we will repeat them.

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The Law of Effect

Question 17

A stimulus that precedes an aversive condition and thus becomes learned aversive stimulus

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Warning Stimulus

Question 18

A unlearned response elicited by the presentation of an unconditioned stimulus

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Unconditioned Response (UR)

Question 19

An approach that attempts to modify behavior by modifying the cognitive structure

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Cognitive Behavior Modification (CBM)

Question 20

A stimulus that increases the future frequency of a response, its removal (termination) follows

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Aversive Stimulus

Question 21

The phase of an experiment or intervention where the behavior is measured in the absence of an intervention

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Baseline

Question 22

The occasion for a response, the response, and the outcome of the response

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Behavioral Contingency

Question 23

Pay is contingent on specific achievements

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Pay for Performance

Question 24

A condition not containing the presumed crucial value of the independent variable

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Control Condition

Question 25

A group of subjects exposed to the presumed crucial value of the independent variable

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Experimental Group

Question 26

A set of stimuli all of which have some common physical property

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Stimulus Class

Question 27

A reinforcer follows the response only once in a while

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Intermittent Reinforcement

Question 28

A reinforcer follows each response

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Continuous Reinforcement (CRF)

Question 29

The behavioral term for language

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Verbal Behavior

Question 30

A muscle, glandular, or neuro-electrical activity

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Behavior

Question 31

The study of the principles of behavior

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Behavior Analysis

Question 32

A set of skills

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Repertoire

Question 33

The physical properties of a stimulus

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Stimulus Dimensions

Question 34

Intensity of a response

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Force

Question 35

The doctrine that the mind is spiritual (nonphysical)

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Spiritual Mentalism

Question 36

Stimuli resulting from acts of aggression

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Aggression Reinforcer

Question 37

The physical properties of a response

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Response Dimensions

Question 38

Preventing the opportunity (or occasion) for a response

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Forgetting Procedure

Question 39

The use of no unnecessary concepts, principles, or assumptions.

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Parsimony

Question 40

Always pinpoint specific behaviors when you deal with a behavioral Be concrete or (psych) problem

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Be concrete

Question 41

If a dead nan can do it, it probably isn't behavior.

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Dead-Man Test

Question 42

A stimulus that increased the frequency of a response it follows

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Reinforcer (Positive Reinforcer)

Question 43

The time from the beginning to the end of a resposne

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Duration

Question 44

The extent to which a research design eliminates confounding variables

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Internal Validity

Question 45

The continuing of a performance after it was first established

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Performance maintenance.

Question 46

A supplemental stimulus that raises the probability of a correct response.

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Prompt

Question 47

The frequency of responding before reinforcement

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Operant Level

Question 48

The doctrine that the world is divided into two parts, material and spiritual

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Spiritualism

Question 49

Private behavior (not visible to the outside behavior)

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Covert Behavior

Question 50

Behavior under the control of a rule

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Rule-governed Behavior

Question 51

A description of a behavioral contingency

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Rule

Question 52

the doctrine that physical (material) world is the only reality.

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Materialism