Reinforcers are items or activities utilised to increase the future likelihood of behavior. Reinforcers fall into 2 domains. These would be ‘Primary Reinforcers’ and ‘Secondary Reinforcers’. Primary Reinforcers ‘aka’ Unconditioned ReinforcersThese serve as reinforcers naturally due to the biological needs of the learner (i.e. water, food, sleep, warmth, sex, etc.). Secondary Reinforcers ‘aka’ Conditioned ReinforcersThese… Continue reading Type of Reinforcers
Tag: Stimulus
Stimulus Equivalence
Stimulus equivalence refers to a learner picking up additional relations between stimuli not explicitly taught to them after they are taught simple relations between stimuli (Arntzen & Vaidya, 2008). This concept allows the learner to learn more in a shorter amount of time by allowing the client to derive/ “self-learn” different concepts independently without teaching… Continue reading Stimulus Equivalence
Behavior Bubbles 