Week 7 - EDF5684

An abolishing operation _______________ the value of a stimulus as a reinforcer.

• Increases.

• Decreases

• Does not change.

An establishing operation _______________ the value of a stimulus as a reinforcer.

• Does not change.

• Increases

• Decreases

A person has just completed an intense work out, and forgot their water bottle! At the end of the workout, the person is very thirsty. Therefore, water is much more valuable. This is an example of a(n) ____________________.

• Abolishing operation

• Establishing operation

• Punisher 

• Reinforcer 

A person has just eaten a large meal. As a result, food is no longer a reinforcer. Ingesting a large amount of food has a(n)  ______________________.

• Establishing effect

• Motivational effect

• Discriminative effect

• Abolishing effect

An abative effect refers to:

• A decrease in the current frequency of behaviour that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event.

• A combination of decreasing and increasing effects in the current frequency of behaviour that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event.

• No effect in the current frequency of behaviour that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event.

• An increase in the current frequency of behaviour that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event.

  
  

An abolishing operation has behaviour-altering effect which involves a decrease in the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event occurs.

• False.

• True.

An evocative effect refers to:

• A combination of decreasing and increasing effects in the current frequency of behaviour that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event.

• No effect in the current frequency of behaviour that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event.

• An increase in the current frequency of behaviour that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event.

• A decrease in the current frequency of behaviour that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event.

  
  

Behaviour altering effects have:

• Conditioned effects.

• Direct effects.

• Direct and indirect effects.

• Indirect effects.

  
  

Behaviour-altering effects refer only to the frequency of a behaviour.

• True

• False

Motivating operations:

• Should evoke the target behaviour, but may not consistently do so.

• Will evoke the target behaviour every single time.

• May never evoke the target behaviour.

• Evoke the target behaviour even if not first successful at doing so.