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EDF 6225 Final Exam questions and answers.
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EDF 6225 Final Exam questions andanswers
conditioned punisher - Correct Answer ✔✔ - A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a
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punisher because of prior pairing with one or more other punishers.
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unconditioned punisher - Correct Answer ✔✔ - A stimulus that, usually, is punishing without any prior
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learning.
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conditioned reinforcer - Correct Answer ✔✔ - a stimulus that has acquired reinforcing properties through
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prior learning
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Unconditioned Reinforcer - Correct Answer ✔✔ - A stimulus that, usually, is reinforcing without any prior
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learning.
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Side effects of punishment - Correct Answer ✔✔ - May lead to an increase in other undesirable behavior.
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Can lead to problems such as escape & avoidance, emotional outbursts, and behavioral contrast.
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Reinforcer - Correct Answer ✔✔ - any event that strengthens the behavior it follows
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Punisher - Correct Answer ✔✔ - A stimulus change that decreases the future frequency of behavior that
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immediately precedes it.
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, Hernstein's Matching Law - Correct Answer ✔✔ - suggests that when different schedules of
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reinforcement are available at the same time for different behaviors, individuals will distribute their
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behavior according to the relative rates of reinforcement available for each option.
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antecedent, behavior, consequence - Correct Answer ✔✔ - The three-term contingency is made of these
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three terms:
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antecedent - Correct Answer ✔✔ - is the environmental conditions or stimulus changes that exist or
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occur prior to the behavior of interest.
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behavior - Correct Answer ✔✔ - An organism's interaction with the environment.
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consequence - Correct Answer ✔✔ - is anything immediately following a behavior in which we are
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interested. Makes the behavior more or less likely to happen in the future.
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Discriminative Stimulus (SD) - Correct Answer ✔✔ - is the antecedent stimulus that has stimulus control
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over behavior because the behavior was reliably reinforced in the presence of that stimulus in the past. It
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signals the availability of a particular reinforcer for a particular behavior.
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Motivating Operation (MO) - Correct Answer ✔✔ - influences the effectiveness of a reinforcer or
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punisher while also influencing the frequency of the specific behavior.
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Premack Principle - Correct Answer ✔✔ - Some professionals will also refer to this technique as
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"First/Then", "If/Then", or "High Probability/Low Probability."
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Automatic Reinforcement - Correct Answer ✔✔ - reinforcement that occurs independent of the social
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mediation of others.
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when a person's behavior creates a favorable outcome without the involvement of another person.
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