PSYCO282 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Graph Labeling, Operant Conditioning
17 May 2016
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Anticipatory contrast: the process whereby the rate of response varies inversely with an upcoming ( anticipated ) change in the rate of reinforcement. Behavioural contrast: a change in the rate of reinforcement on one component of a multiple schedule produces an opposite change in the rate of response on another component. Differential reinforcement of other behaviour (dro): reinforcement of any behaviour other than a target behaviour that is being extinguished. Discrimination training: as applied to operant conditioning, the differential reinforcement of responding in the presence of one stimulus (the sd) and not another. Discriminative stimulus for extinction (s ): a stimulus that signals the absence of reinforcement. Errorless discrimination training: a discrimination training procedure that minimizes the number of errors (i. e. , non-reinforced responses to the s ) and reduces many of the adverse effects associated with discrimination training. Extinction: the non-reinforcement of a previously reinforced response, the result of which is a decrease in the strength of that response.
