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SAFMEDS
Content Area B Part 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stimulus Class | Environmental events that share formal, temporal, or functional properties |
| Learning is a ____ | Relatively permanent change in behavior |
| Stimulus | Environmental change affecting the organism through its receptors. |
| Function | Effect of a response on the environment |
| Environment | Events, stimuli, and conditions that can affect behavior |
| Public Behavior | Behavior that can be observed by others |
| Private Behavior | Behavior only observable by the organism engaging in it |
| Behavior: Interaction between __ | Living organism's actions and the environment |
| Behavior chain | Sequence of response in a specific order |
| Antecedent Stimulus | Environmental event that precedes a response |
| Contingency | Dependent relation between events |
| Response | Single instance of behavior |
| Evoke | Increase momentary probability of a response |
| Response class | Responses with different topographies but same effect on environment |
| Abate | Decreases momentary probability of a response |