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Chapter 2 Key Terms (Cooper et al., 2007)

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Antecedent   Environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior  
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Automaticity of reinforcement   Behavior is modified by its consequences irrespective of the person's awareness  
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Aversive stimulus   Condition that functions (a) to evoke a behavior that terminated it in the past; (b) as a punisher when presented following behavior, and/or (c) as a reinforcer when withdrawn following behavior  
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Behavior   Activity of living organisms  
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Behavior change tactic   Intervention derived from one or more principles of behavior and possesses sufficient generality  
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Conditioned punisher   Neutral stimulus change functions as a punisher because it has been paired with one or more other punishers  
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Conditioned reflex   Learned stimulus-response functional relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the response it elicits  
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Conditioned reinforcer   Stimulus change that functions as a reinforcer because of prior pairing with other reinforcers  
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Conditioned stimulus   Neutral stimulus that's been paired with an unconditioned stimulus and now elicits respondent behavior  
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Consequence   Stimulus change following a behavior  
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Contingency   Dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables  
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Contingent   Describes reinforcement (or punishment) that is delivered only after the target behavior has occurred  
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Deprivation   State of an organism with respect to how much time has elapsed since it has contacted a particular type of reinforcer  
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Discriminated operant   Operant that occurs more frequently under some antecedent conditions than under others  
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Discriminative stimulus   Stimulus for which some type of response has been reinforced, and in its absence, the same response has not been reinforced  
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Environment   Real circumstances in which the organism exists  
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Habituation   Decrease in responsiveness to repeated presentation of a stimulus  
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Higher order conditioning   Development of a conditioned reflex by pairing a neutral stimulus with a conditioned stimulus  
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History of reinforcement   Learning experiences and past conditioning of an organism  
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Motivating operation   Environmental variable that alters the reinforcing or punishing effects of a stimulus, and alters the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus  
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Negative reinforcement   Occurs when a behavior is followed by the termination (or reduction in intensity) resulting in an increase in the future probability of the behavior  
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Neutral stimulus   Stimulus that does not elicit respondent behavior  
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Ontogeny   History of the development of an individual organism during its lifetime  
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Operant behavior   Behavior that is selected/maintained/brought under stimulus control as a function of its consequences  
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Operant conditioning   Basic process by which operant learning occurs: events following behavior results in an increase (reinforcement) or decrease (punishment) in the frequency of the same type of behavior  
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Operant extinction   Discontinuing of a reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior, the effect of which is a decrease in the frequency of the targeted behavior  
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Phylogeny   History of the natural evolution of a species  
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Positive reinforcement   When a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior  
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Principle of behavior   Describes a functional relationship between behavior and its controlling variables  
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Punisher   Stimulus change that decreases the future frequency of behavior that immediately precedes it  
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Punishment   When the stimulus change immediately following a behavior decreases its future frequency  
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Reflex   Relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the respondent behavior it elicits  
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Reinforcement   Stimulus change immediately follows a response and increases the future frequency of the response  
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Reinforcer   Stimulus that increases the future frequency of behavior  
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Repertoire   All of the behaviors a person can do  
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Respondent behavior   Behavior that is elicited or induced by an antecedent stimulus  
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Respondent conditioning   Neutral stimulus is presented alongside an US until the neutral stimulus becomes a CS that elicits the CR  
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Respondent extinction   Repeated presentation of a CS in the absence of the US, whereby the CS loses its ability to elicit the CR  
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Response   Instance or occurrence of a behavior  
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Response class   Group of responses of varying topography, all of which produce the same effect on the environment  
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Satiation   Decrease in the frequency of behavior as a result of continued contact with a reinforcer  
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Selection by consequences   Fundamental principle underlying operant conditioning; behavior are selected/shaped/maintained by their consequences  
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Stimulus   Energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells  
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Stimulus class   Group of stimuli that share common elements (formal/temporal/functional)  
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Stimulus control   Situation in which the frequency, latency, duration or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus  
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Stimulus-stimulus pairing   Stimuli are presented together resulting in one stimulus acquiring the function of another stimulus  
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Three-term contingency   Basic unit of analysis of operant behavior  
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Unconditioned punisher   Stimulus that decreases the frequency of any behavior that immediately precedes it irrespective of the organism's learning history with that stimulus  
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Unconditioned reinforcer   Stimulus change that increases the frequency of any behavior that immediately precedes it irrespective of the organism's learning history with that stimulus  
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Unconditioned stimulus   Stimulus component of an unconditioned reflex; a stimulus change that elicits respondent behavior without any prior learning  
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