NED106_Emotional & Behaviour Disorder Quiz

A contingent consequence that maintains or strengthens a behaviour because a person gets something

Answer explanation

Positive reinforcement

A contingent consequence that maintains or strengthen a behaviour because a person avoids or escapes something

A contingent consequence that occurs after a behaviour and reduces the likelihood that the behaviour will occur in the future

Contingent presentation of an aversive stimulus that reduces the occurence of behaviour

Contingent removal of a desirable stimulus that reduces the behaviour

Discontinuing or withdrawing reinforcement of a previously reinforced target behaviour to decrease and eventually eliminate that behaviour

Experiemental method to test hypothesis about behavioural function

Behaviour continues to occur over time

Newly acquired behaviour occurs in different places or with different people

Emit untrained responses that are functional equivalent to newly acquired behaviour