Learn about respondent conditioning, where an unconditioned stimulus and a neutral stimulus are paired to create a conditioned response.
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Test your behavior-change procedures skills with PTB founder Dana Meller as she reviews a BCBA® mock exam question that explores respondent-operant interactions, comparing and contrasting habilitation, habituation, and adaptation, with an emphasis on the importance of reinforcement. The breakdown touches on operant conditioning and its role in behavior change.
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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.
A formally neutral stimulus that has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus and as a result can elicit a reflexive behavior.
How do you discriminate between operant behavior and respondent behavior on test questions? PTB founder Dana Meller shows you the ABC of it.
PTB co-founder Dana Meller explains how one word can describe two different things. Here’s how to practically understand the difference between operant and respondent conditioning.
BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-3: Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning.
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When an unconditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly over a short period of time, the strength of the respondent behavior diminishes.
A branch of biology that deals with learned behaviors resulting from interaction with one’s environment.
A voluntary and learned behavior determined and maintained by its history of consequences and defined by its function (not its topography).
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.