Mixed schedules of reinforcement
A compound schedule of reinforcement in which two or more un-signaled (No SDs) basic schedules of reinforcement are in effect in an alternating, random sequence for one or more behaviors.
B. Concepts and Principles
Motivating operation (MO)
An environmental variable that alters the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of a stimulus and alters the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus.
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Multiple schedules of reinforcement
A compound schedule of reinforcement in which two or more basic schedules of reinforcement are in effect and alternated in a random sequence for one or more behaviors. An SD
Negative punishment
A process that occurs when a response is followed immediately by the removal of a stimulus (or a decrease in the intensity of a stimulus) that results in a decrease
Negative reinforcement
A process that occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the reduction or removal of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of that and similar behaviors under similar
Negative reinforcement extinction
A process where the maintaining negative reinforcer no longer follows a specific behavior, resulting in that behavior decreasing and eventually ceasing.
Observational learning
Learning that occurs through indirect contact with the consequences experienced by other people (e.g., observing another person emit a response and the subsequent consequences for that response informs the observer’s
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.
Operant extinction
A process where a maintaining reinforcer is no longer provided, and the behavior that has been maintained by that reinforcer decreases and eventually ceases.