Generativity - Answers means that we can create and understand an infinite number of
meaningful sentences and utterances
Generativity - Answers the most significant characteristic of Equivalence Based Instruction (EBI)
Reflexivity - Answers Stimulus-stimulus relation in which the learner - without any prior training
or reinforcement - selects a stimulus that is the same as the sample stimulus
A=A
Symmetry - Answers Stimulus-stimulus relation in which the learner - without any prior learning -
selects a stimulus that is the same as the sample stimulus and the comparison stimulus
• If A=B, then B=A
Show a picture of a bird and say bird. point to a picture of a bird and subject says bird
Transitivity - Answers stimulus-stimulus relations that emerge as a product of training two other
stimulus-stimulus relations--never trained
• If A=B, and if B=C, then A=C
Conditional discrimination - Answers the response that will produce reinforcement in the
presence of a particular stimulus depends on the presence or absence of other stimulus
The matching tip sample procedure arranges that 4 term contingency, sample stimulus, which
is your antecedent, correct comparison--selection, response, and a reinforcer. The performance
produced by this form term contingency is known as.
Nonequivalent relations - Answers related by some other way than sameness
Imitative behavior - Answers first time only
occasioned by another persons modeling
model - Answers antecedent stimulus
shaping - Answers Systematically and differentially reinforcing successive approximations to a
terminal behavior
Ex. The therapist first reinforces reaching, then reaching with outstretched fingers, then
reaching with only pointer finger outstretched