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9 Cards in this Set
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Acquisition
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the formation of a new conditioned response tendency
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Avoidance learning
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learning that has occurred when an organism engages in a response that prevnts aversive stimulation from occuring
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behavior modification
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systematic approach to changing behavior through the application of the principles of conditiong
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discriminative stimuli
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cues that influence operant behavior by indicating the probable consequence (reinforcement or nonreinforcement) of a response
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escape learning
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a type of learning in which an organism acquires a response that decreases or ends some aversive stimulation
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extinction
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the gradual eweakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency
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shaping
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reinforcement of closer and closer approximations of a desired response
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spontaneous recovery
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classical conditining, the reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of nonexposure to the conditioned stimulus
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token economy
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system for doling out symbolic reinforcers that are exchanged later for a variety of genuine reinforcers
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