The tendency of a stimulus to elicit a reflex response shortly after the elicitation of that response by a different stimulus is:

A property of behavior is

An unconditioned reflex is best defined as:

Billy “threatened to hurt his brother” 3 times in one hour.   This number, “3 times in an hour” represents a dimensional quantity whose measurement is always given as [response cycles]/[time] – (which can also be phrased as: “response cycles per unit of time”).  This dimensional quantity is:

Byron beats up kids who are walking to school, and takes their lunch money.  He only does this with kids who are smaller than he is, not if the kid is bigger.   In the past, he has always been able to get the money from small kids, but not from big kids, who have sometimes beat Byron up. Byron’s physical assaults and stealing behavior, being reliably evoked in the presence of a small kid walking alone to school, exemplifies which of the following principles of behavior? 

When a motivating operation decreases the value of a consequence to function as an effective form of reinforcement we term that an:

The FedEx driver is the behaver.  The FedEx driver says, “I need an adult signature,” to Chuck as she delivered the new iPad.  Chuck quickly signs.  The FedEx driver asking for a signature is an example of:

The Term unconditioned stimulus is only used when speaking about stimuli that relate to reflexes and:

Which of the following is a correct way to use the term punishment?

Biological factors, individual history, and current environmental conditions are all __________ of behavior