PS288- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 15 pages long!)
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Contingencies of reinforcement refer to the relationships between behaviors and the environmental events that influence behaviors. Wave from a friend (antecedent) walking over to friend (behavior) visiting and chatting (consequence) Prompts refer to specific antecedents that directly facilitate and guide performance of specific behaviors: verbal instructions (most frequent, written or physical cues, gestures, physical or manual guidance, modeling. Priming: presenting cues, then engaging in a task (out of people"s conscious awareness: non-normative message help save environment , social normative message: other guests did this. Discriminative stimuli and stimulus control: differential reinforcement: reinforcing response in the presence of one stimulus or situation and not reinforcing in the presence of another stimulus, discriminative stimulus: presence associated w/ reinforcement. Antecedent stimulus that signal a certain response will be reinforced (people can serve as a stimuli: non-discriminative: stimulus presence associated w/ non- reinforcement, stimulus control: responses are differentially controlled by antecedent stimuli. Presence of a stimulus increases likelihood of a response.
