SPCE 689 ACTUAL EXAM SCRIPT 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ abolishing operation . Answer: A motivating operation that decreases
the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.
◉ behavior-altering effect . Answer: An alteration in the current
frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is
altered in effectiveness by the same motivating operation.
◉ conditioned motivating operation . Answer: A motivating operation
whose value-altering effect depends on a learning history.
◉ establishing operation . Answer: A motivating operation that increase
the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer.
◉ evocative effect . Answer: An increase in the current frequency of
behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in
reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivation operation.
◉ function-altering effect . Answer: A relatively permanent change in
an organism's repertoire of MO, stimulus, and response relations, caused
, by reinforcement, punishment, an extinction, procedure, or a recovery
from punishment procedure.
◉ motivating operation . Answer: An environmental variable that A)
alters the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus,
object, or event; and B) alters the current frequency of all behavior that
has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object, or event.
◉ recovery from punishment procedure . Answer: The occurrence of a
previously punished type of response without its punishing consequence.
This procedure is analogous to the extinction of previously reinforced
behavior and has the effect of undoing the effect of the punishment.
◉ reflexive conditioned motivating operation . Answer: A stimulus that
acquires MO effectiveness by preceding some form of worsening or
improvement. It is exemplified by the warning stimulus in a typical
escape-avoidance procedure, which establishes its own offset as
reinforcement and evokes all behavior that has accomplished that offset.
◉ combinatorial entailment . Answer: Trained: A >B and B > C
Derived: A >C and C<A
◉ combinatorial entailment . Answer: Two or more stimulus relations
can mutually combine
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ abolishing operation . Answer: A motivating operation that decreases
the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.
◉ behavior-altering effect . Answer: An alteration in the current
frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is
altered in effectiveness by the same motivating operation.
◉ conditioned motivating operation . Answer: A motivating operation
whose value-altering effect depends on a learning history.
◉ establishing operation . Answer: A motivating operation that increase
the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer.
◉ evocative effect . Answer: An increase in the current frequency of
behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in
reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivation operation.
◉ function-altering effect . Answer: A relatively permanent change in
an organism's repertoire of MO, stimulus, and response relations, caused
, by reinforcement, punishment, an extinction, procedure, or a recovery
from punishment procedure.
◉ motivating operation . Answer: An environmental variable that A)
alters the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus,
object, or event; and B) alters the current frequency of all behavior that
has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object, or event.
◉ recovery from punishment procedure . Answer: The occurrence of a
previously punished type of response without its punishing consequence.
This procedure is analogous to the extinction of previously reinforced
behavior and has the effect of undoing the effect of the punishment.
◉ reflexive conditioned motivating operation . Answer: A stimulus that
acquires MO effectiveness by preceding some form of worsening or
improvement. It is exemplified by the warning stimulus in a typical
escape-avoidance procedure, which establishes its own offset as
reinforcement and evokes all behavior that has accomplished that offset.
◉ combinatorial entailment . Answer: Trained: A >B and B > C
Derived: A >C and C<A
◉ combinatorial entailment . Answer: Two or more stimulus relations
can mutually combine
