Masking
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… Read more
B. Concepts and Principles
Matching law
A behavioral concept that maintains that behavior is produced in direct proportion to the reinforcement that is available for that behavior. Hint: We make behavior choices at every moment, and
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.
Mock Exam Question Breakdown: What is Being Recorded
It’s time for a mock question breakdown. Marcus is collecting data on the door slamming behavior of his client who resides in a group home. On this particular day, Marcus
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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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6th Edition TCO
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.