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B23 Identify ways the matching law can be used to interpret response allocation

Matching Law and Response Allocation

The matching law outlines how people distribute their replies across available options in accordance to the amount of reinforcement received from each one. The matching law states that the rate of a particular behavior is proportionate to its rate of reward in comparison to other available behaviors.

Example: A A student is assigned two tasks: math problems and reading. The kid is praised for each arithmetic problem done and each page read. If the student receives more frequent or higher-quality praise for doing math problems, they will spend more time doing so rather than reading. The matching law helps to explain this behavior distribution by showing that the student’s response allocation is proportionate to the reinforcement rates associated with each activity.

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.