Discriminated avoidance
A signaled (SD) contingency for behavior that indicates that engaging in the behavior will prevent and/or delay the onset of an aversive stimulus. Hint: In Los Angeles, when the weather… Read more
B. Concepts and Principles
Discriminated operant
A learned response under the stimulus control of an SD. Due to a history of reinforcement, that response occurs in the presence of that specific SD and not in its
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Discriminative effects of punishment
When a behavior occurs less often (or not at all) in the presence of certain conditions (SDp).
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.