Term. Negative Reinforcement. Definition. A contingency where an ongoing stimulus or event is removed (or prevented) by some response (operant) and the rate of response increases.
Q. Is the contingent removal of an aversive stimulus upon the occurrence of the target behavior that is associated with an increase in future occurrences of that behavior?
A stimulus is removed (either terminated, reduced, or postponed) contingent on a response, which results in an increase in the future probability of that response. Negative reinforcement involves the presence of an aversive stimulus which is removed contingent upon a target behavior.
Q. When a behavior occurs and is followed by the removal of a stimulus that results?
Negative Reinforcement In an attempt to increase the likelihood of a behavior occurring in the future, an operant response is followed by the removal of an aversive stimulus. This is negative reinforcement.
Q. When a response is followed by the presentation of a stimulus and as a result similar responses occur more frequently in the future?
Positive reinforcement occurs “when a response is followed by the presentation of a stimulus and as a result, similar responses occur more frequently in the future” (Cooper, Heron, and Heward, 2007).
Q. What is the decreased response to a stimulus after repeated presentations?
Habituation is a decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated presentations.
Q. Is habituation stimulus specific?
The distinction between fatigue and habituation is commonly made by demonstrating that the response decrement is specific to the repeated stimulus (Barry, 2009; Rankin et al., 2009). Thus, habituation is a learning process that allows the animal to ignore irrelevant stimuli and focus on novel important stimuli.
Q. What term is used to describe a decrease in a behavioral response after repeated exposure to non threatening stimuli?
Habituation. a decrease in behavioral response after repeated exposure to a nonthreatening stimulus.
Q. What term is used to describe a decrease in a behavioral response?
Habituation, a form of nonassociative learning, is defined as a gradual decrease in responding to repeated irrelevant stimuli.
Q. What term is used to describe an increase in behavioral response after exposure to a threatening stimulus?
What term is used to describe an increase in a behavioral response after exposure to a threatening stimulus? negative reinforcement.
Q. What happens when you remove the unconditioned stimulus?
If the unconditioned stimulus does not appear at least some of the time, however, its association with the conditioned stimulus will be lost, and extinction of the dog’s learned or conditioned response will occur. As a result, the dog will stop salivating in response to the light.
Q. What is the difference between unconditioned stimulus and unconditioned response?
In classical conditioning, an unconditioned response is an unlearned response that occurs naturally in reaction to the unconditioned stimulus. 1 For example, if the smell of food is the unconditioned stimulus, the feeling of hunger in response to the smell of food is the unconditioned response.
Q. How does a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus?
A neutral stimulus is a stimulus which initially produces no specific response other than focusing attention. In classical conditioning, when used together with an unconditioned stimulus, the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus.
Q. When a conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus a resulting decrease?
Extinction refers to the reduction in responding that occurs when the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus.
