chapter 7- stimulus control

Question 1

antecedent

Answer 1

• stimuli/ events that precede an operant response

* *important to analyze the antecedents and the consequences

Question 2

discriminative stimulus (SD)

Answer 2

• the stimulus that is present when a particular behaviour is reinforced

Question 3

generalization

Answer 3

• takes place when a behaviour occurs in the presence of stimuli that are similar in some ways to the SD that was present during stimulus discrimination training
  (something happens regularly in gneral)

Question 4

S-delta

Answer 4

The S-delta (SD) is the stimulus in the presence of which the behavior is not reinforced

Question 5

stimulus control

Answer 5

• the outcome of stimulus discrimination training
• a particular behaviour is more likely to occur in the presence of a particular discriminative stimulus (SD) because the behaviour has been reinforced only when the SD was present
• SD has stimulus control over the behaviour

Question 6

stimulus discrimination training

Answer 6

• a process in which a behaviour is reinforced when the discriminative stimulus SD is present and is extinguished when the S-Delta is present
• when SD is present, the behaviour is reinforced
• when any other antecedent stimuli except the SD are present the behaviour is not reinforced; during discrimination training, any antecedent stimulus that is not enforced is called an S-Delta
• *as a result, of discrimination training, a behaviour is more likely to occur in the future when the SD is present but is less likely to occur when S-delta is present

Question 7

three-term contingency

Answer 7

• the antecedent that is present when the behaviour occurs, the behaviour, and the reinforcing consequence - also called contingency of reinforcement

Question 8

generalization gradient

Answer 8

• a graph showing how the strength of response changes with similarity
• stimuli must be similar
• as stimuli are less and less similar to the SD, the behaviour is less likely to occur in the presence of these stimuli