EDF 6225 Exam 1 Review spring 2023

Exam 1 Review Antecedent ~  Environmental conditions or stimulus change that exist or occur prior to the behavior. o Play critical part in learning and motivation o Learners don’t need to be aware of antecedent for it to work Behavior~  Interaction with organism’s environment that is characterized by a detectable displacement in space through time and result in a measurable change. Consequence~  A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest o Immediately after o Influence on future behavior (flipping the light switch, more likely to do it in future) Response class  A group of responses with the same function (each response in the group produces the same effect in the environment) Stimulus class  Any group of stimuli sharing a predetermined set of common elements in one or more of these dimensions. What a stimulus is~  An energy change that affects an organism through its receptor Stimulus topography~  Form and physical characteristics  Describing the behavior as what it looks like in appearance (not describing function) Unconditioned and condition