What are antecedents?
Stimuli that precede an operant response
What is stimulus control?
Achieved when a behavior is more likely to occur in the presence of a particular stimulus or stimulus class (SD) but less likely in the presence of other stimuli (S-delta)
What is a stimulus collage?
Various types of internal and external stimuli present at a given time
What is Compound Stimulus?
Multiple Stimuli that simultaneously occur directly before a US
What is overshadowing?
Being sensitive to a particular stimulus that takes precedence over other stimuli present
What is a stimulus class?
Stimuli that share similar features and have the same function effect on a particular behavior
How does eco-behavioral approach relate to stimulus collage?
- determines which stimuli is responded to and how
- past conditioning
- salience, proximity, conspicuousness
- facilitative or competing responses
Prior experience with CS and US: what is latent inhibition, blocking, sensory preconditioning?
- Latent inhibition: experienced CS without the US in the past
- Blocking: two CS1 formed at same time, one blocks the other
- Sensory Preconditioning: more sensitive to stimuli
What is Counter Conditioning?
Using Pavlovian procedures to reverse unwanted effects of conditioning
- relaxation, humor, anger
- systematic desensitization
What are the two steps in Stimulus Discrimination training?
- When SD is present, the behavior will be reinforced
- When in the presence of other antecedent stimuli (S-delta), the behavior will not be reinforced
Discrimination Training Procedures
- Succession
- Simultaneous
- Matching to Sample (MTS)
- Errorless Discrimination Training
- Differential outcomes effect (DOE)
Discrimination Training Procedures
- Succession
- Simultaneous
- Matching to Sample (MTS)
- Errorless Discrimination Training
- Differential outcomes effect (DOE)
Three term contingency
ABCs
Consequence contingent on behavior contingent on specific antecedent (SD)
What is generalization?
Behavior occurs in presence of stimuli similar in some ways to SD
What is Generalization gradient?
- organized order of how similar stimuli are to one another
- the more similar to SD, the more likely for bx to occur
Types of generalization
- semantic generalization
- operant generalization
- over generalization
-under generalization - Pavlovian generalization
What is concept formation?
- organizing stimuli into general rules or classes
- learning to discriminate within a class
- how to respond to different stimuli
