Punishment: (1) Presenting an aversive stimulus contingent on a response (administering an elctrical shock) (2) Taking away a rewarding stimulus contingent on a response (removing the delivery of food pellets) An event is viewed as punishment only if it is followed by a consequence that DECREASES the behavior over time.
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Contingent events are those events that follow each other, esp. repeatedly. A contingency can happen naturally or in a planned way. ... Response contingencies are when an individual's behavior, considered a response to some unknown stimulus, is paired with external stimulation. It is the R-S part of the "stimulus -
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The maintenance of key pecking by stimulus-contingent and response-independent food presentation. Elkan Gamzu and Barry Schwartz ...
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Repetition of a stimulus results in decreased responses in many cortical areas. ... PFC neurons showed only weak size-contingent repetition effects, despite strong size selectivity observed with the same stimuli. Thus, based on the repetition effects in PFC, one would have erroneously concluded that PFC shows weak or no...
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Gamzu, E., & Schwartz, B. (1973). The maintenance of key pecking by stimulus-contingent and response-independent food presentation. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 19, 65-72.
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I wonder if Congress could enact some sort of contingent stimulus legislation: If the unemployment rate passes 11%, then $XXX billion goes to some predetermined range of programs. If it doesn't, then the money remains unspent.
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Determinants of the post - stimulus resolution of contingent negative variation (CNV). ... CBU number: 922 ... Year of publication: 1973...
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Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic ... All three figures consisting of four (square, circle) or three (triangle) segments had the same circumference. Three parameters were chosen to ... The performance quotient was the best for the square and the worst for the circle,
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The Stimulus Has Passed the House and Senate ... Yesterday, the both the House and Senate passed the stimulus package. The White House is now soliciting comments on the bill, and we encourage everyone to --- politely --- share their feedback.
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