Task List Reference: B-3

Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning.

Test your ABA Terminology: Temporal Contiguity Explained in Detail

Test your ABA Terminology ➠ Temporal Contiguity Explained in Detail

Test your knowledge of concepts and principles with PTB co-founder Dana Meller as she discusses the term temporal contiguity, its association with operant and respondent conditioning. Here, Dana breaks down the different relationship factors that contiguity shares with operant and respondent conditioning.

Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-3: Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning.

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ABA terms you need to know.

Test your ABA Terminology ➠ Operant vs. Respondent Extinction

PTB co-founder Dana Meller explains the differences between operant and respondent extinction procedures and how these procedures reduce challenging behaviors and diminish reflex responses in behavior management and conditioning.

Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-3: Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning.

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Test your ABA Terminology: Operant Conditioning that Automatically Occurs

Test your ABA Terminology ➠ Operant Conditioning that Automatically Occurs

Let’s clarify the concept of automaticity of reinforcement and punishment, and its distinction from automatic reinforcement. With a relatable example, PTB co-founder Dana explains how an individual’s behavior can be influenced without consciously knowing the reasons behind their actions.

Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-3: Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning.

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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

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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

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ABA terms you need to know: respondent behavior.

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).

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Phylogeny

A branch of biology that deals with genetically-inherited behavior.

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Operant conditioning

A process that involves an occasion for a behavior (SD), the behavior itself, and the consequence that follows; a process that determines the future of that behavior’s occurrence or nonoccurrence.

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Operant behavior

A voluntary and learned behavior determined and maintained by its history of consequences and defined by its function (not its topography).

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Ontogeny

A branch of biology that deals with learned behaviors resulting from interaction with one’s environment.

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ABA terms you need to know: contiguity

Master your ABA Terminology ➠ Exploring Contiguity & the Importance of Timing

Let’s take a quick dive into the concept of contiguity, in both respondent and operant conditioning. PTB co-founder Dana Meller explains its significance in understanding behavior change processes.

Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-3: Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning.

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Habituation

When an unconditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly over a short period of time, the strength of the respondent behavior diminishes.

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