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What can be done to improve generalization? - Answer- 1. observe natural
communnities and reinforce the target behaviour in that context
2. Diversify examplars
3. Loosen experimental control over stimuli and responses involved in training
4. Make unclear the limits of training contingencies
5. Use stimuli that are likely to be found in generalization settings during training
6. Reinforce accurate self reports
7. When generalizations occur, reinforce some of them.
Define: Train to generalize - Answer- If generalization itself is considered a response,
reinforce generalized behaviour.
Define: Program Common Stimuli - Answer- When there are sufficient elements in
common between the training situation and the natural setting
Define: Use Indiscriminable contingencies - Answer- Train so that the learner cannot tell
if the behaviour will produce a reinforcer
Define: Train Loosely - Answer- Training conducted with relatively little control over the
stimulus presented
Define: Time Out - Answer- the process of reducing the frequency of a target behaviour
by making removal of the learner from a reinforcing situation contingent on the target
behaviour
Define: Response Cost - Answer- The process of reducing the frequency of a target
behaviour by making removal of a reinforcer contingent on the target behaviour
Define: Reprimand - Answer- To reduce the frequency of a target behaviour by making
disapproval contingent on the target behaviour
List five kinds of punishment - Answer- Reprimand, response cost, time out, physical
punishment, overcorrection
Define: Physical Punishment - Answer- To reduce the frequency of a target behaviour
by making brief and non injurious contact with the skin contingent on the target
behaviour
, Define: Positive practice - Answer- Repeated performance of the appropriate behaivour
Define: Overcorrection - Answer- To reduce the frequency of a target behaviour by
making restitution for damage done and repeated performance of appropriate behaviour
contingent on the target behaviour
Define: Punisher - Answer- Any event that, when made contingent on a behaviour,
decreases the frequency of that behaviour
What are the rules for using extinction? - Answer- 1. Define the target behaviour2.
Identify the reinforcers that maintain the target behaviours3. Withhold all reinforcement
of the target behaviour4. Monitor Results
Define: Extinction Burst - Answer- A sharp increase in the frequency of the behaviour on
extinction
Define: Resurgence - Answer- The reappearance, during extinction of previously
effective behaviour
What problems exist when using extinction? - Answer- 1. Uncontrolled reinforcement
2. Duration to effect (slowness)
3. Extinction burst
4. Resurgence
5. Spontaneous recovery
Define: Spontaneous Recovery - Answer- The reappearance of the target behaviour
following its extinction
Define: Fixed Interval Schedule - Answer- Provide a reinforcer the first time the target
behaviour occurs after an interval of N length since the last reinforcement
Define: FI - Answer- Fixed Interval Schedule
What is the difference between FR5 and VR5? - Answer- With FR5, you reinforce every
fifth event, while with VR5 you reinforce an average of every 5th event
What happens on an FI-2 minute schedule? - Answer- The behaviour is reinofrced only
when it occurs after 2 minutes have elapsed after the last reinforcement
Define: VI
Define: Variable Interval Schedule - Answer- Variable Interval Schedule
Provide a reinofrcer the first time the target behaviour occurs after an interval, with the
interval varying around an average of N lengthVariable-interval schedule with a limited