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...

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...

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...

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...

EDF 6225 Exam 2|52 Questions with Verified Answers Chained Schedules - CORRECT ANSWER two or more schedules in the same order, can be for same or different behaviors and conditioned reinforcement for one element is the presentation of the next element. SD is present Multiple Schedules - CORRECT ANSWER Reinforcement occurs in an alternating, usually random sequence and can be identified by the SD. Concurrent Schedules - CORRECT ANSWER Reinforcement occurs when (a) 2 or more contingencies...

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...