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Stimulus Generalization vs Response Generalization Consider how to classify the terms “stimulus” and “reaction.” We think of everything in our surroundings that we respond to when we hear the stimulus or stimuli of the word. This is classified as an antecedent in sequential order. Then, for response generalization, this includes our replies, which is a …

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Multiple Baseline Design A multiple baseline design is a single subject experiment that allows for the investigation of two or more dependent variables at the same time. The independent variable, the intervention, is used to assess the impacts of three kinds of dependent variables: behaviors, persons, and settings. To develop a multiple baseline design and …

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Let’s start with the definition. An SD is a discriminative stimulus.  Although the initials for the acronym are reversed, it is a discriminative stimulus. We know that a stimulus is anything in the environment that makes contact with our sense modes and signals the availability of objects or the lack thereof. In aba, the word discrimination refers …

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When a behavior analyst mixes schedules of continuous reinforcement, intermittent reinforcement, differential reinforcement of varying rates of responding, and extinction, they create compound schedules of reinforcement. In 1957 Ferster and Skinner discovered that elements from compound schedules can occur successively or simultaneously, with or without discriminative stimuli, as a reinforcement contingency independently or as a …

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