Unit 2 Concepts And Principles Of Aba

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Reflex

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A simple relation between a specific stimulus and an innate involuntary response.

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Unconditioned Stimulus

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A stimulus which elicits an unconditioned response without prior learning; that is, due to an innate capacity to do so. It is the stimulus part of a reflex.

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Unconditioned Response

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A response which is elicited by an unconditioned stimulus without prior learning; that is, due to phylogenic provenance. It is the response part of a reflex.

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Elicit

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To strongly, consistently, and reliably evoke.

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Learning

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A relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience.

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3 Basic Operations Leading to Learning

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Pairing
Consequential Operations
Signaling

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Habituation

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A reduction in strength of a reflex response brought about by repeated exposure to a stimulus that elicits that response within certain temporal parameters.

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Sensitization

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Tendency of a stimulus to elicit a reflex response following the elicitation of that response by a different stimulus.

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Pairing

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Concurrently presenting two stimuli

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Consequential Operations

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Presenting, withdrawing, or withholding a stimulus.
(Consequating)

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Signaling

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When a stimulus signals that a consequence will occur if a response is emitted in the presence of that stimulus.

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Contiguity

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The nearness of events in time (temporal contiguity)

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Contingency

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A dependency between events.

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Functional Relation

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When changes in an antecedent or consequent stimulus class consistently alter a dimension of a response class. Identified via systematic manipulations.

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Function

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Refers to the effect of a response on the environment.

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Stimulus

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An energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells.

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Behavior-Altering

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When an antecedent evokes or abates a response; this change is only temporary

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Operant Behavior

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Behavior which operates or acts upon the environment. It is selected, maintained, and brought under stimulus control as a function of its consequences.

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Evoke

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To call forth or bring about.

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Evocative

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Immediately and momentarily increase the frequency of that behavior.

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Abative

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Immediately and momentarily decrease the frequency of the that behavior.

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Phylogenic Provenance

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The effect of a stimulus on a specific response may be innate, due to the evolutionary history of that species.

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Ontogenic Provenance

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The effect of the stimulus on a specific response may be learned, due to the experiential history of the individual organism in the environment.

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Kinesis

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An unlearned functional relation between a stimulus condition and the speed of movement, irrespective of direction.

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Taxis

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An unlearned functional relation between a stimulus and movement toward or away from the stimulus.

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Respondent Behavior

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The response component of a reflex; behavior that is elicited, or induced, by antecedent stimuli.

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Motivating Operations

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Environmental variables that have two effects on behavior: 1. alter the operant reinforcing effectiveness of stimuli/objects/evens 2. alter current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced by those stimuli/objects/events

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Fixed Action Pattern

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An unlearned relatively rigid sequence of responses that once started, continues to occur regardless of the effects of the separate responses on the environment

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Respondent Extinction

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A conditioned elicicitor will stop eliciting the conditioned response as a result of unpairing (and therefore start functioning as a neutral stimulus in relation to the reflex response). This effect is permanent (unless pairing takes place one again).