HDL Chapter 5 Vocabulary Review

Pleasant or unpleasant conditions that follow behaviors and affect the frequency of future behaviors.

• Consequences
• Cues
• Extinction
• Shaping

Pleasurable consequence given to strengthen behavior

• Positive Reinforcer
• Negative Reinforcer
• Positive Punisher
• Negative Punisher

Release from an unpleasant situation, given to strengthen behavior.

• Positive Reinforcer
• Negative Reinforcer
• Positive Punisher
• Negative Punisher

An aversive stimulus following a behavior, used to decrease the chances that the behavior will occur again (e.g. spanking or reprimanding)

• Positive Reinforcer
• Negative Reinforcer
• Positive Punisher
• Negative Punisher

Withdrawal of a pleasant consequence that may be reinforcing a behavior, designed to decrease the chances that the behavior will recur (e.g. taking away your phone)

• Positive Reinforcer
• Negative Reinforcer
• Positive Punisher
• Negative Punisher

The weakening and eventual elimination of a learned behavior as reinforcement is withdrawn.

• Consequences
• Cues
• Extinction
• Shaping

Signals about which behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished

• Consequences
• Cues
• Extinction
• Shaping

The teaching of a new skill or behavior by means o freinforcement for smal steps toward the desired goal.

• Consequences
• Cues
• Extinction
• Shaping

These reinforcers satisfy basic human needs.

• Primary
• Secondary
• Intrinsic
• Extrinsic

These reinforcers acquire their value by being associated with primary reinforcers or other well-established secondary reinforcers.

• Primary
• Secondary
• Intrinsic
• Extrinsic