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| The body weight of an individual that has free access to food 24 h a day. |
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| The tendency of an individual's responses to vary in form from instance to instance |
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| An event or stimulus that functions as a reinforcer because of the individual's life history |
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| Contingency of reinforcement |
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| A definition of the relationship between the occasion, the operant class, and the consequences that follow the behavior |
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| in the context of an equilibrium analysis of response deprivation, it is the more deprived activity that is obtained by making the instrumental response |
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| Continuous reinforcement (CRF) |
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| Each response produces reinforcement |
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| A real-time graphical representation of operant rate. |
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| A laboratory instrument that is used to record the frequency of operant behavior in real time (rate of response). |
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| Restricting access to a reinforcing event |
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| Differential reinforcement |
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| When behaviors with certain characteristics are reinforced and others are not |
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| A low rate of operant behavior as a function of S-delta |
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| Discriminative stimulus (SD) |
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| An event or stimulus that signals a response reinforcer contingency |
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| To bring forth; the term used with respondents (CRs & URs), FAPs/MAPs, and reaction chains |
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| To send forth; the term used with operant behavior |
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| A response that occurs with the change in contingencies from reinforcement to extinction. |
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| No longer reinforcing a previously reinforced response |
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| A rapid burst of responses when an extinction procedure is first implemented. |
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| Strength or energy as an attribute of a response |
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| An operant that the individual is free to emit or not emit over some period of time |
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| in the context of an equilibrium analysis of response deprivation, it is response that is made to access the more deprived contingent response |
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| Intermittent reinforcement |
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| When only some responses are reinforced |
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| Reinforcement made to occur in a laboratory vessel or other controlled experimental environment rather than within a living organism |
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| Time from the onset of one event to the onset of another |
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| Refers to stamping in (or out) some response. |
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| pairing the sound of a feeder with the presentation of food |
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| When the termination, cancellation, or delay of a stimulus or event contingent upon a response decreases the future rate/probability of that response |
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| When the termination, cancellation, or delay of a stimulus or event contingent upon a response maintains or increases the future rate/probability of that response |
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| Alterations of neurons and neural interconnections during a lifetime |
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| The selection of operant behavior during the lifetime of an organism. |
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| Behavior that operates on the environment to produce a change, effect, or consequence. |
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| A laboratory enclosure used to investigate conditioning |
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| A set of responses that may vary in topography but produce a common environmental consequence |
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| A change in operant response as a function of consequences |
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| The rate of an operant before any known conditioning |
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| The number of operants that occur in a given period of time. |
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| The differences in an operant response from instance to instance |
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| Partial reinforcement effect (PRE) |
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| The more intermittent reinforcement, the slower the effects of extinction take place (i.e., the greater the resistance to extinction) |
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| When the presentation or addition of a stimulus or event contingent upon a response decreases the future rate/probability of that response |
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| When the presentation or addition of a stimulus or event contingent upon a response increases the future rate/probability of that response |
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| A stimulus or event that, when delivered contingent upon a response, maintains or increases the future rate/probability of that response |
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| Access to engage in a higher frequency behavior will function as a reinforcer for a lower frequency behavior |
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| The likelihood that a response will occur |
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| The number of occurrences of a response during a specified period of time |
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| Reinstatement (of behavior) |
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| After a behavior has been extinguished, response independent occurrence the stimulus or event that reinforced that behavior will result in re-occurrence of the behavior |
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| All of the behavior in which an individual can engage on the basis of phylogenetic and ontogenetic histories. |
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| The extent to which behavior continues when it is placed on extinction. |
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| When access to a behavior is restricted below baseline level |
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| Differences in response characteristics that occur as a function of differential reinforcement |
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| Ranking of responses by the differences in their relative probability or rate of occurrence in an unrestricted setting. |
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| Any operant whose response rate is controlled by a given opportunity to emit the response; a response can only occur when an opportunity to respond exists. |
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| An event or stimulus that signals the absence of a response reinforcer contingency |
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| Providing access to a reinforcing event to the point that it is no longer reinforcing |
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| Differential reinforcement of successive approximations of a desired response |
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| After a behavior has been extinguished and the individual is removed from the envrionment in which extinction occurred, the next time the individual returns to the environment the behavior reappears |
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| increasingly more similar to some criterion |
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| The physical form of a response |
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