Ethics-- 11.28.23

_________: Observable and measurable behaviors are targeted.

• Behavioral

• Applied

• Analytic

• Technological

______: Helps scientists fit their findings with the field's existing knowledge base.

• Pragmaticism

• Parsimony

• Replication

• Selectionism

______: A group of topographically different responses that generate the same consequences.

• Stimulus class

• Response

• Stimulus

• Response class

______: Reinforce roughly every "nth" response.

• Fixed Ratio

• Variable Interval

• Variable Ratio

• Variable Ratio

______: Reinforce after "n" amount of time.

• Fixed Interval

• Variable Interval

• Fixed Ratio

• Variable Ratio

A stimulus which has acquired reinforcing properties through repeated pairings, like money, is called a(n) _______________.

• Generalized Punisher

• Unconditioned Reinforcer

• Generalized Reinforcer

• None of the above

______: A previously neutral stimulus that functions as a punisher due to prior pairing with one or more other punishers.

• Conditioned Punisher

• Unconditioned Punisher

• Generalized Punisher

Shouting "NO!" or "Don't do that!" is considered a(n) ____________________ because it is a stimulus that is not naturally punishing, but due to its association with punishing stimuli, it now has a punishing effect.

• Generalized Punisher

• Conditioned Punisher

• Unconditioned Punisher

_______: The phenomenon in which a change in one component of a multiple schedule that increases or decreases the rate of responding on that component in accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule.

• Behavior Chain

• Behavioral Cusp

• Behavioral Contrast

______: Environmental variables that alter the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer.

• Motivating Operations

• Establishing Operations

• Abolishing Operations

• Rule-Governed Behavior