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Antecedent
- An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest
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- Automaticity (of Reinforcement)
- Refers to the fact that behavior is modified by its consequences irrespective of the person's awareness
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Aversive Stimulus
- An unpleasant or noxious stimulus
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Behavior
- The activity of living organisms
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Behavior Change Tactic
- A technologically consistent method for changing behavior derived from one or more principles of behavior
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Conditioned Punisher
- A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a punisher because of prior pairing with one or more other punishers; sometimes called secondary or learned punisher
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Conditioned Reflex
- A learned stimulus-response functional relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the response it elicits
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Conditioned Reinforcer
- A stimulus change that functions as a reinforcer because of prior pairing with one or more other reinforcers; sometimes called secondary or learned reinforcer
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Conditioned Stimulus
- The stimulus component of a conditioned reflex
- A formerly neutral stimulus change that elicits respondent behavior only after it has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus or another CS
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Consequence
- A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest
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Contingency
- Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables
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Contingent
- Describes reinforcement (or punishment) that is delivered only after the target behavior has occurred
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Deprivation
- The state of an organism with respect to how much time has elapsed since it has consumed or contacted a particular type of reinforcer
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