PSYC 338 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Classical Conditioning, Contingency Management, Reinforcement
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Stimulus generalization: tendency to emit operant responses in situations other than those in which the responses were learned. Stimulus discrimination: solely responding to specific stimuli and not to similar situations. Primary: any stimulus that is positively or negatively related to an organism"s survival (food, water, oxygen, elimination, sexual activity) Secondary: objects or event that acquire reinforcing properties through their association with primary reinforcers (sight of mother pacifies hunger/thirst in infant bc mother is paired with primary need) Generalized: class of secondary reinforcers that may have been paired with more than one primary reinforcer (money) Develops under the circumstances of noncontingent reinforcement in which an organism seems to believe that a relationship exists between its actions and a reinforcement when, in reality, there is no such relationship. The purposive manipulation of reinforcement contingencies so they encourage desirable behaviors. Our behavior is maintained by small, immediate reinforcers instead of larger, more distant ones.
