PSYC 351 Study Guide - Final Guide: Binary Relation, Stimulus Control
12 Dec 2016
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Conditional relation: a relation in which the significance of one stimulus or event on the status of another stimulus. Configural-cue approach: an approach to the analysis of stimulus control which assumes that organisms respond to a compound stimulus as an integral whole rather than a collection of separate and independent stimulus elements. Discriminative stimulus: a stimulus that controls the performance of instrumental behaviour because it signals the vailability or nonavailability of reinforcement. Excitatory generalization gradient: a gradient of responding that is observed when organisms are tested with the s+ (reinforced stimulus) from a discrimination procedure and with stimuli that increasingly differ from the s+; progressively less responding occurs to the s+. Typically the highest level of responding occurs to stimuli that increasingly differ from the s+. Facilitation: a procedure in which one cue designates when another cue will be reinforced. (aka occasion setting)
