Discriminative effects of punishment
When a behavior occurs less often (or not at all) in the presence of certain conditions (SDp).
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Discriminative stimulus (SD)
A stimulus in the presence of which specific responses have been reinforced in the past and in the absence of which the same responses have not been reinforced in the
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Divergent control
When one antecedent variable affects the strength of many verbal behavior responses (e.g., the word “car’, can evoke many different responses such as, “drive”, “speed”, “transportation”, “traffic”, etc.).
Duplic
Any verbal behavior that shares formal similarity and point-to-point correspondence with its controlling stimulus (e.g., echoic).
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Echoic
An elementary verbal operant in which the speaker vocally repeats the vocal verbal behavior of another speaker that has a history of generalized conditioned reinforcement.
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Emergent mand relations
A complex mand response (e.g., a mand that includes an autoclitic, or a tact) that develops without direct training.
Emergent stimulus relations
Untrained stimulus relations (e.g., responses to stimuli) that develop following the training of other stimulus relations.
Environment
An elaborate and always changing universe of stimulus conditions and events that are internal and external to an individual.
Establishing operation
A type of motivating operation that is the product of deprivation that, at that moment, increases the effectiveness of the deprived stimulus as a reinforcer and increases the frequency of
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Evocative effect
A type of behavior-altering effect that causes an in-the-moment increase in the current frequency of behavior that’s been reinforced by a specific stimulus.