Stimulus discrimination
Narrow stimulus control exhibited when a person responds to a specific stimulus with a limited number of specific responses.
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B. Concepts and Principles
Stimulus generalization
Responding in the same way to antecedent stimuli that share certain aspects of other antecedent stimuli (SDs).
Stimulus salience
The process of making learning stimuli more prominent to establish stimulus control and skill acquisition.
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Surrogate MO (CMO-S)
A type of conditioned motivating operation that is established when a previously neutral stimulus acquires its evocative and value-altering effect by having been paired with an unconditioned motivating operation.
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Tact
An elementary verbal operant in which a speaker names non-verbal SDs they have direct contact with through any of their sense modes and private experiences that has a history of
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Temporal stimulus class
A group of stimuli that share common timing in relation to the behavior they precede or follow.
Textual
An elementary verbal operant in which a speaker reads words that are presented in writing (i.e., text) that has a history of generalized conditioned reinforcement.
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Three-term contingency:
Known as the ABCs of behavior and involves an occasion for a behavior (A/SD), the behavior itself (B), and the consequence(C) that follows that behavior. These components (i.e., the antecedent,
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An elementary verbal operant in which a speaker converts spoken or written words into identical written words that has a history of generalized conditioned reinforcement.
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Transitive MO (CMO-T)
A type of conditioned motivating operation that is established when an environmental variable establishes another event as a reinforcer or punisher, meaning that a deprived item can only be acquired
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Unconditioned motivating operation
States of satiation and deprivation in the presence of events, operations, and stimulus conditions that a person needs or values inherently without training.
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Unconditioned punisher
A stimulus change that decreases the frequency of any behavior immediately preceding it regardless of the organism’s learning history with that stimulus.