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| Behavior that is not followed by reinforceing consequences decreases in frequency. It has evolved over species history and is based on genetic endowment |
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| comes from the verb to operate, and it refers to behavior that operates on the environment to produce consequences that in turn strengthen the behavior |
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| Any consequence that increases the probability of the operant that produced it |
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| Refers to the physical form or characteristic of the responses |
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| It often occurs without an observable stimulus preceeding it |
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| Reflexive responses come from a preceeding stimulus |
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| A stimulus that precedes an operant and sets the occasion for behavior |
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| Differential Reinforcement |
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| Means reinforceing an operant in one situation but not another |
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| When an operant does not produce reinforcement, the stimulus that precedes the response is called |
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| Contingency of Reinforcement |
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| The relationship between the events that set the occasion for the behavior, the operant class, and the consequences |
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| A stimulus follows a behavior and as a result that behavior increases |
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| When an operant results in the removal of an event, and this procedure increases the rate of response the contingency is called negative reinforcement |
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| When an operant produces an event and the rate of operant behavior decreases |
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| Removal of stimuli contingent on behavior |
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| States, that a higher frequency behavior will function as reinforcement for a lower frequency behavior |
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| Any response in the hierarchy can be used to support the behavior below it; a response may be reinforced by any behavior above it |
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