PTB co-founder Dana Meller offers detailed examples to help students better discriminate between two often confusing concepts: masking vs. overshadowing.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller discusses the ways in which you can increase your studying effectiveness through stimulus salience. We know that ABA works, and Dana reminds students to utilize basic ABA principles to help themselves prepare for the BCBA® exam.
Refer to Task List section B-10: Define and provide examples of stimulus control.
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A learned response under the stimulus control of an SD. Due to a history of reinforcement, that response occurs in the presence of that specific SD and not in its
Discriminated operant Read More
A stimulus in the presence of which specific responses have been reinforced in the past and in the absence of which the same responses have not been reinforced in the
Discriminative stimulus (SD) Read More
When a response occurs in the presence of an irrelevant stimulus as opposed to the relevant, trained stimulus.
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When a stimulus has acquired stimulus control over a specific response, but a competing stimulus is present, blocking stimulus salience, and causing a decrease in the occurrence of the learned
When focusing on a minor feature of a stimulus interferes with stimulus control and prevents the acquisition of new skills.
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When the presence of a competing or distracting stimulus interferes with the acquisition of a skill/stimulus control of another stimulus.
When a learned behavior occurs in the presence of the SD and doesn’t occur in the absence of the SD or in the presence of other stimuli (SΔ).
A stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has not produced reinforcement in the past or produces less reinforcement or lesser value reinforcement than when it occurs in
The process of making learning stimuli more prominent to establish stimulus control and skill acquisition.