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B.15 Identify examples of response maintenance

Response Maintenance

Response maintenance refers to the continued performance of a learned behavior after the original reinforcement has been reduced or eliminated. The behavior persists over time, even without consistent reinforcement.

Example: A student is taught to raise their hand before speaking in class. Initially, the teacher consistently reinforces this behavior with praise. Over time, the teacher reduces the frequency of praise, yet the student continues to raise their hand before speaking, even without regular reinforcement. This continued behavior demonstrates response maintenance.

B. Concepts and Principles (24 questions)

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.