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6th Ed. Test Content Outline Section B

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Concepts and Principles


B-1: Identify and distinguish among behavior, response, and response class ©


B-2: Identify and distinguish between stimulus and stimulus class ©


B-3: Identify and distinguish between respondent and operant conditioning ©


B-4: Identify and distinguish between positive and negative reinforcement contingencies ©


B-5: Identify and distinguish between positive and negative punishment contingencies ©


B-6: Identify and distinguish between automatic and socially mediated contingencies ©


B-7: Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized reinforcers ©


B-8: Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized punishers ©


B-9: Identify and distinguish among simple schedules of reinforcement ©


B-10: Identify and distinguish among concurrent, multiple, mixed, and chained schedules of reinforcement ©


B-11: Identify and distinguish between operant and respondent extinction as operations and processes ©


B-12: Identify examples of stimulus control ©


B-13: Identify examples of stimulus discrimination ©


B-14: Identify and distinguish between stimulus and response generalization ©


B-15: Identify examples of response maintenance ©


B-16: Identify examples of motivating operations ©


B-17: Distinguish between motivating operations and stimulus control ©


B-18: Identify and distinguish between rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior ©


B-19: Identify and distinguish among verbal operants ©


B-20: Identify the role of multiple control in verbal behavior ©


B-21: Identify examples of processes that promote emergent relations and generative performance ©


B-22: Identify ways behavioral momentum can be used to understand response persistence ©


B-23: Identify ways the matching law can be used to interpret response allocation ©


B-24: Identify and distinguish between imitation and observational learning ©