NED106_Emotional & Behaviour Disorder Quiz

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

(a)  

Answer explanation

Positive reinforcement

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

(a)  

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

(a)  

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

(a)  

Contingent removal of a desirable stimulus that reduces the behaviour

(a)  

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

(a)  

Experiemental method to test hypothesis about behavioural function

(a)  

Behaviour continues to occur over time

(a)  

Newly acquired behaviour occurs in different places or with different people

(a)  

Emit untrained responses that are functional equivalent to newly acquired behaviour

(a)