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In behavioral psychology, stimulus control is a phenomenon in operant conditioning that occurs when an organism behaves in one way in the presence of a given stimulus and another way in its absence. A stimulus that modifies behavior in this manner is either a discriminative stimulus or stimulus delta. For example, the presence of a stop sign at ...
Classical conditioning (also respondent conditioning and Pavlovian conditioning) is a behavioral procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus (e.g. food, a puff of air on the eye, a potential rival) is paired with a neutral stimulus (e.g. the sound of a musical triangle).
Contingency management (CM) is the application of the three-term contingency (or operant conditioning), which uses stimulus control and consequences to change behavior. CM originally derived from the science of applied behavior analysis (ABA), but it is sometimes implemented from a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) framework as well.
Stimulus control is about arranging the occurrence, frequency and salience of stimuli that trigger behavior through respondent conditioning or stimuli that signal occasions on which a response (a behavior) will have desirable outcome in a specific context through operant conditioning.
Stimulus control refers to behavior that occurs more often in the presence of a stimulus than in its absence. Stimulus control occurs when the rate, latency, duration, or magnitude of a response is altered in the presence of an antecedent stimuli.
Stimulus control is a term used to describe situations in which a behavior is triggered by the presence or absence of some stimulus. If a person always eats when watching TV, then (in the operant conditioning use of the term) eating behavior is controlled by the stimulus of watching TV.
Stimulus control refers to a fundamental concept in behavioral psychology that describes the influence exerted by stimuli on behavior. It involves the process by which specific antecedent conditions reliably influence and alter the occurrence, frequency, duration, or intensity of a particular response.
