Discriminative stimulus Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

QUALIFIED BEHAVIOUR ANALYST ELABORATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Four-term contingency - CORRECT ANSWER-MO - antecedent - behavior - consequence Phylogenic history - CORRECT ANSWER-History of the evolution of a species or group Ontogenic history - CORRECT ANSWER-Developmental history of an organism within it's own lifetime Classical conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER-Conditioned stimulus paired with previously neutral (unconditioned stimulus) Example: Pavlov's Dogs Stimulus cont...

ABSC 160 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASS Question: What is the primary focus of applied behavior analysis (ABA)? Answer: The primary focus of ABA is to improve specific behaviors by using principles of learning theory, including reinforcement and punishment, to bring about meaningful changes in behavior. Question: Define positive reinforcement and give an example. Answer: Positive reinforcement involves adding a desirable stimulus after a behavior to increase the likelihoo...

Four-term contingency correct answers MO - antecedent - behavior - consequence Phylogenic history correct answers History of the evolution of a species or group Ontogenic history correct answers Developmental history of an organism within it's own lifetime Classical conditioning correct answers Conditioned stimulus paired with previously neutral (unconditioned stimulus) Example: Pavlov's Dogs Stimulus control correct answers A situation in which the frequency, latency, duration, or...

Psychology 101 Quiz 6 Questions And Answers 2024/2025 An animal will give a conditioned response to a stimulus that has never been associated with the presentation of the original US in both A) higher-order conditioning and spontaneous recovery. B) stimulus discrimination and higher-order conditioning. C) stimulus generalization and higher-order conditioning. D) stimulus generalization and stimulus discrimination. - answerC) stimulus generalization and higher-order conditioning. While n...

Operant Conditioning - Skinner learned by association -works with VOLUNTARY behaviors - applying reinforcement or punishment AFTER the behavior Creator of this method considered a "reinforcer" something that made a behavior occur more frequently. If there was no change in the behavior, it wasn't a reinforcement. Formula: Discriminative Stimulus (your command)-Response-Consequence Classical Conditioning - Pavlov Learned association between 2 events: 1 event is neutral and 1 event elicit...

BCAT Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers Motivating Operations (MO) An environmental variable that alters the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event. Contingency Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior an it's controlling variables. Satiation Repeated presentation of a reinforcer weakens its effectiveness and for this reason the rate of responses declines. Positive Reinforcement A type of reinforcement in which the pr...

Define Sensation. - Awareness of a stimulus. Define Perception. - refers to the conscious registration of a sensory stimulus.Interpretation of the meaning of the stimulus List 4 prerequisites for sensation/perception to occur. - a. Stimulus b. Receptor c. Conducted d. Translate impulse into a sensation Define Projection. - describes the process by which the brain refers sensations to their point of stimulation. Define Adaptation. - is a decrease in sensitivity to continued stimuli...

Discriminative Stimulus (SD) - ANSWER Definition: Any event in the presence of which a target behavior is likely to have consequences that affect its frequency. Discriminative Stimulus (SD) E - ANSWER Examples of SD's: "Touch the cat," "Give me red," "Where are you?," "How is the weather outside?" Stimulus Control - ANSWER Definition: The tendency for the target behavior to occur in the presence of the SD but not in of the S-delta. (S-delta is not on the presence the task list, th...

Operant Conditioning - Skinner - Answer-learned by association -works with VOLUNTARY behaviors - applying reinforcement or punishment AFTER the behavior Creator of this method considered a "reinforcer" something that made a behavior occur more frequently. If there was no change in the behavior, it wasn't a reinforcement. Formula: Discriminative Stimulus (your command)-Response-Consequence Classical Conditioning - Pavlov - Answer-Learned association between 2 events: 1 event is neutral a...

Operant Conditioning - Skinner - Correct Answer learned by association -works with VOLUNTARY behaviors - applying reinforcement or punishment AFTER the behavior Creator of this method considered a "reinforcer" something that made a behavior occur more frequently. If there was no change in the behavior, it wasn't a reinforcement. Formula: Discriminative Stimulus (your command)-Response-Consequence Classical Conditioning - Pavlov - Correct Answer Learned association between 2 events: 1 e...