Week 8

Question 1

Discriminative Stimulus

Answer 1

Is a stimulus in the presence of which an operant response will be reinforced

Question 2

Extinction Stimulus

Answer 2

Is a stimulus in the presence of which an operant response will not be reinforced

Question 2

Operant Stimulus Discrimination Training

Answer 2

Refers to the procedure of reinforcing a response in the presence of an SD and extinguishing that response in the presence of an S-Delta

Question 3

Good Stimulus Control

Answer 3

A strong correlation between the occurrence of a particular stimulus and a particular response

Question 4

Good Stimulus Discrimination

Answer 4

A strong correlation between the occurrence of a response to an SD, but not to an S-Delta

Question 5

Operant Stimulus Generalization

Answer 5

Refers to the procedure of reinforcing a response in the presence of a stimulus or situation and the effect of the response becoming more probable not only in the presence of that stimulus or situation, but also in the presence of another stimulus or situation

Question 6

Common-Element Stimulus Class

Answer 6

Is a set of stimuli, all of which have one or more physical characteristics in common

Question 7

Stimulus Equivelance Class

Answer 7

Is a set of completely dissimilar stimuli—i.e., have no common stimulus element—that an individual has learned to group or match together or respond to in the same way.

Question 8

Contingency-Shaped Behavior

Answer 8

Behavior that develops because of its immediate consequences through trial and error

Question 9

Rule-Governed Behavior

Answer 9

Behavior controlled by the statement of a rule

Question 10

Antecedents

Answer 10

Stimuli present just prior to the occurrence of the behavior

Question 11

Consequences

Answer 11

Stimuli that serve to increase or decrease future behavior

Question 12

Darwinian Natural Selection

Answer 12

Selects certain genetic traits for survival of the species

Question 13

Operant Selectionism

Answer 13

Selects certain behaviors for continuation (or discontinuation) for the individual

Question 14

Fading

Answer 14

Is the gradual change over successive trials of an antecedent stimulus that controls a response so that the response eventually occurs to a partially changed or completely new antecedent stimulus

Question 15

Dimension of a Stimulus

Answer 15

Is any characteristic of a stimulus that can be measured on some continuum