Conditioned response/reflex (CR)
An unlearned, automatic response that is elicited by a previously neutral stimulus which has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus that typically elicits the response.
B.3 Identify and distinguish between respondent and operant conditioning.
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
A formally neutral stimulus that has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus and as a result can elicit a reflexive behavior.
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BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-3: Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning.
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Habituation
When an unconditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly over a short period of time, the strength of the respondent behavior diminishes.
Ontogeny
A branch of biology that deals with learned behaviors resulting from interaction with one’s environment.
Operant behavior
A voluntary and learned behavior determined and maintained by its history of consequences and defined by its function (not its topography).
Operant conditioning
A process that involves an occasion for a behavior (SD), the behavior itself, and the consequence that follows; a process that determines the future of that behavior’s occurrence or nonoccurrence.
Respondent behavior
An involuntary behavior that is part of an organism’s genetic endowment, elicited without any prior learning, when an eliciting stimulus (US) produces a behavior (UR/REFLEX).
Respondent conditioning
What occurs when an unconditioned stimulus (US) is paired with a previously neutral stimulus (NS), causing the neutral stimulus to become a conditioned stimulus (CS) that elicits the reflexive behavior