Reinforcement
A stimulus change following a behavior leading to said behavior occurring more often or strengthening the duration, latency, magnitude, or topography of said behavior in the future.
B. Concepts and Principles
Repertoire
A person’s entire collection of learned skills and behaviors that are related to a specific task or setting.
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
Respondent extinction
When a previously neutral stimulus that was paired with an unconditioned stimulus to become a conditioned stimulus that elicits a conditioned response is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus, and
Response
A single instance of behavior, which is the measurable unit of analysis in the science of behavior analysis.
Response class
A group of behaviors with differing topographies that have the same function and serve the same purpose.
Response generalization
The extent to which a client exhibits novel behaviors that are functionally equivalent to a trained target response in the presence of specific antecedent stimuli (SDs).
Rule-governed behavior
A verbal description of a behavioral contingency in which behavior comes under the control of consequences that are too delayed to influence behavior directly.
Setting events
An internal or external antecedent event or condition (e.g., motivating operation) that has an influence on the occurrence of a specific behavior.
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Socially mediated contingency
When an individual’s access to reinforcement is mediated or controlled by other people.
