Let’s Break Down a BCBA® Mock Exam Question: Stimulus Control & Game-Changing Learning Factors
PTB founder Dana Meller breaks down a BCBA® mock exam question that distills the factors that affect stimulus control in behavior analysis.
B. Concepts and Principles
Limited hold
A component that can be added to a schedule of reinforcement limiting access to reinforcement for correct responses that occur within a specific and fixed time.
Listener discrimination
A non-verbal response evoked by listening to a speaker’s verbal SD and doing what is instructed due to a history of generalized conditioned reinforcement.
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Mand
An elementary verbal operant in which the speaker’s verbal behavior is controlled by motivating operations and has a history of specific reinforcement.
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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
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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.
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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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.