BACB questions with correct answers graded A+

BACB Operant Conditioning - correct answer Stimulus Equivalence - correct answer The emergence of accurate responding to un-trained and non-reinforced stimulus-stimulus relations following the reinforcement of response to some stimulus-stimulus relations Stimulus - correct answer Physical events that affect the behavior; may be internal or external; may occur prior to, during, or after behavior (i.e. temporal locus of stimuli Stimulus Class - correct answer A group of antecedent stimuli that have a common effect on an operant class; group members of a stimulus class tend to evoke or abate the same behavior or response class, yet vary across physical dimensions Unconditioned Reinforcement - correct answer A stimulus change that can increase the future frequency of behavior without prior pairing without any other form of reinforcement; no learning history required (i.e. food, water) Conditioned Reinforcement - correct answer When a previously neutral stimulus acquires the ability to function as a reinforcer through stimulus-stimulus pairing with one or more unconditioned or conditioned reinforcers; Generalized CRF (money, attention, tokens) Unconditioned Punishment - correct answer A stimulus change that can decrease the future frequency of behavior without prior pairing without any other form of reinforcement; no learning history required Conditioned Punishment - correct answer When a previously neutral stimulus acquires the ability to function as a punisher through stimulus-stimulus pairing with one or more unconditioned or conditioned reinforcers Extinction - correct answer A procedure that occurs when a previously reinforced response is discontinued, so that behavior decreases in the future Stimulus Control - correct answer When the rate/frequency, latency, duration, or amplitude of a response is altered in the presence of an antecedent stimulus; acquired when responses are reinforced only in the presence of a specific stimulus and not in the presence of other stimuli Automatic Reinforcement - correct answer reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others Automatic Punishment - correct answer punishment that occurs independent of the social mediation of others Transitive CMO - correct answer An environmental variable that establishes (or abolishes) the reinforcing effectiveness of another stimulus & thereby evokes (or abates) the behavior that has been reinforced by that other stimulus Reflexive MO - correct answer Conditions or objects that acquire their effectiveness as MOs by preceding a situation that either is worsening or is improving. Surrogate MO - correct answer A stimulus that has acquired its effectiveness by accompanying some other MO and has come to have the same value-altering effects as the MO that is has accompanied. Discriminative Stimulus - correct answer A stimulus in the presence of which responses of some type have been reinforced & in the absence of which the same type of responses have occurred and not been reinforced in the past; lets you know that reinforcement is available. Motivating Operation - correct answer Alters the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus and the current frequency of all behavior that have been reinforced by that stimulus Behavioral Contingency - correct answer Occur after behavior; only affect future behavior Conditional Discrimination - correct answer conditional on presence of other discriminative stimuli