EAB 4798 Midterm Review Questions And
Verified Detailed Answers
What is Science? - ANSWER The critical essence of science is the features that are
fundamental to its effectiveness.
-Science and its writers.
ABC's of Behavior - ANSWER A - Response
B - Consequence
C - Response keeps Happening - Consequence has to be a Reinforcement. - Measure
Time
DRO = Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviors.
Three-Term Contingency: - ANSWER Set of functional relationships among distinct
classes of antecedent stimuli, responses, and consequent stimuli that together
constitute the model of how behavior is influenced by the environment.
S ------- R ------- S
Stimulus Response Stimulus
Respondent Operant
Three basic contingencies underlying all behavior: - ANSWER -Antecedent Event:
Environmental event that occurs immediately before a response.
-Consequential Event: All events that contingent on a response.
, -Environmental event that closely follows a response.
Respondent: Class of responses elicited by a particular unconditioned or conditioned
antecedent stimulus.
Operant: -ANSWER- A class of responses elicited by a particular unconditioned or
conditioned antecedent stimulus.
Discriminated Operant: -ANSWER A class of responses which are functionally related to
classes of both antecedent and consequent stimuli.
Discriminative Stimuli: - RESPONSE (SD) - A stimulus that has acquired the function of
setting the occasion for a response to occur. A response is more likely to occur in the
presence of a discriminative stimulus than it will in its absence.
The Consequences actually weakens or strengths the probability of the Response.
-ANSWER-Form of Stimuli: -Reinforcer (ScR) & -Aversive (Sc^)
Positive Negative
Reinforcement ScR ScA Strengthens
Punishment ScA ScR Weakness
Reinforcement: -ANSWER Is a procedure in which a Stimulus is either Presented or
Removed contingent upon a Response and there is an Increase in the Probability of that
Response.
Positive Reinforcement: - ANSWER A procedure in which a Stimulus is Presented
contingent upon a Response and there is an Increase in the Probability of that
Response.
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