SPE 526- MODULE 1 SET 2 Questions
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antecedent
✓ A STIMULUS IN THE ENVIRONMENT THE PRODUCES BEHAVIOR IN AN
INDIVIDUAL ORGANISM
AUTOMATIC REINFORCEMENT
✓ Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others
(e.g., scratching an insect bite relieves the itch).
automaticity of reinforcement
✓ behavior is modified by its consequences irrespective of the person's
awareness. Person doesn't have to know that a consequence has occurred.
AVERSIVE STIMULUS
✓ an event that an organism will avoid
BEHAVIOR
✓ observable actions of ANY INDIVIDUAL LIVING ORGANISM
BEHAVIOR CHANGE TACTIC
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✓ a research-based, technologically consistent method for changing behavior
that has been derived from one or more basic principles of behavior and that
possesses sufficient generality across subjects, settings and/or behaviors to
warrant its codification and dissemination
CONDITIONED PUNISHER
✓ A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a punisher because of
prior pairing with one or more other punishers.
conditioned reflex
✓ A learned stimulus-response functional relation consisting of an antecedent
stimulus (e.g. sound of refrigerator door opening) and the response it elicits
(e.g salivation); each person's repertoire of conditioned reflexes is the
product of his or her history of interactions with the environment
(ontogeny).
CONDITIONED REINFORCER
✓ A stimulus or event that has acquired reinforcing value by being associated
with a primary reinforcer; also called a secondary reinforcer.
conditioned stimulus (CS)
✓ in classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after
association with an unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a
conditioned response.
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