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16 Cards in this Set
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The initial stage of learning something.
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Acquisition
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An organism acquires a response that prevents some aversive stimulation from occurring.
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Avoidance Learning
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A written agreement outlining a promise to adhere to the contingencies of a behavior modification program.
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Behavioral Contract
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A type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus.
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Classical Conditioning
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Events that acquire reinforcing qualities by being associated with primary reinforcers.
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Conditioned Reinforcers
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A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning.
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Conditioned Response (CR)
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A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response.
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Conditioned Stimulus. (CS)
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Occurs when every instance of a designated response is reinforced.
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Continuous Reinforcement.
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Creates a graphic record of responding and reinforcement in a skinner box as a function of time.
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Cumulative Recorder
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Are cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequences (reinforcement or non-reinforcement) of a response.
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Discriminative Stimuli
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Drawn forth.
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Elicit
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To send forth.
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Emit
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An organism acquires a response that decreases or ends some aversive stimulation.
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Escape Learning
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Consists of efforts to transfer the emotion attached to an US to a new CS
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Evaluative Learning
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The gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response system.
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Extinction
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The reinforcer is given for the first response that occurs after a fixed time interval has elapsed.
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Fixed-Interval Schedule
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