SPE 526- MODULE 1 SET 2 QUESTIONS
Antecedent - answers :a stimulus in the environment the produces behavior in an
individual organism
Automatic reinforcement - answers :reinforcement that occurs independent of the social
mediation of others (e.g., scratching an insect bite relieves the itch).
Automaticity of reinforcement - answers :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 - answers :an event that an organism will avoid
Behavior - answers :observable actions of any individual living organism
Behavior change tactic - answers :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 - answers :a previously neutral stimulus change that functions as
a punisher because of prior pairing with one or more other punishers.
Conditioned reflex - answers :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 - answers :a stimulus or event that has acquired reinforcing value
by being associated with a primary reinforcer; also called a secondary reinforcer.
Conditioned stimulus (cs) - answers :in classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant
stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (us), comes to trigger a
conditioned response.
Consequence - answers :whatever event that immediately follows a behavior
Contingency - answers :the relationship between two events, one being "contingent" or
a consequence of the other event. Aba sees all behavior as a response to an
antecedent and driven by the consequences.
Contingency-shaped behavior - answers :behavior that develops because of its
immediate and direct consequences
Contingent - answers :dependent
Antecedent - answers :a stimulus in the environment the produces behavior in an
individual organism
Automatic reinforcement - answers :reinforcement that occurs independent of the social
mediation of others (e.g., scratching an insect bite relieves the itch).
Automaticity of reinforcement - answers :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 - answers :an event that an organism will avoid
Behavior - answers :observable actions of any individual living organism
Behavior change tactic - answers :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 - answers :a previously neutral stimulus change that functions as
a punisher because of prior pairing with one or more other punishers.
Conditioned reflex - answers :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 - answers :a stimulus or event that has acquired reinforcing value
by being associated with a primary reinforcer; also called a secondary reinforcer.
Conditioned stimulus (cs) - answers :in classical conditioning, an originally irrelevant
stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (us), comes to trigger a
conditioned response.
Consequence - answers :whatever event that immediately follows a behavior
Contingency - answers :the relationship between two events, one being "contingent" or
a consequence of the other event. Aba sees all behavior as a response to an
antecedent and driven by the consequences.
Contingency-shaped behavior - answers :behavior that develops because of its
immediate and direct consequences
Contingent - answers :dependent
