Exploring Conditioning and New Course

good evening everyone and welcome to the Understanding Behavior live stream i'm so glad you can make it tonight we've got a great topic for y'all we're going to talk about respondent and operant conditioning it's going to be lit how's everybody feeling tonight uh we had some really exciting news last week i mean you're probably here because it was like the most lit stream we've ever had but uh we announced the understanding behavior beast slayer course it's now been out for a whole week how has how have people been liking it so far has anybody here that uh that's been using the course and been digging it okay yeah people are feeling good we've got good great uh Crystal like spring break needs to hurry up for sure we got Emily E looking for a study buddy for sure study buddies are great shauna Heather doing well ify doing well sweet yeah glad you guys are are doing well overall yeah a couple couple people having painful days it's to be expected you know life is hard it's been a long day over here too uh busy getting more stuff ready for this co uh for this course release tomorrow nice taylor just picked it up today congratulations erin's looking for a buddy too maybe you guys should connect yeah Anita just about to get that new course sick sick sick yay Lisa i'm so glad you're here what I hope hopefully what you heard about me is good all right love it love it love it well cool well if you uh missed out last week uh we did announce the behavior be slayer comprehensive course it is really awesome oh look who we've got in chat here shuthie just passed the exam on Tuesday your content and be the beat the beast mocks helped me a lot a big thank you yay let's everybody give a big congrats to Shuty i knew you would kill it you've been nailing it in these study halls yes way to go congratulations love it love it love it love it um so yeah the Behavior Beast Slayer course just came out last Thursday in early access we have our second content drop tomorrow uh it is pretty awesome let me just highlight some of the things for you uh we are doing a couple um we are doing a couple things in our um early access release so the normal price on May 1st is going to go up to $325 but uh this month only you can get it for $250 which is a great deal um trust me this is this course is really everything that you need to pass this exam it has over 13 hours of interactive videos um the qu there's actually like questions built into the video so like it will have um the question is displayed um and then it will like pause the video let's see if we can get to a point here but it'll actually like pause the video and have you select the the uh correct option let's I think it's going to do it like right here so um yeah it has like questions built into the video so like right here you can just um read the question and then select the correct answer and then it'll give you some feedback and then um you can resume the video from there so super cool uh way to keep you engaged during these videos most of the videos are like pretty bite-size and consumable they're um between like five and 20 minutes overall um you can access the uh you can try the course for free at a link that I'll drop in just a second into chat but highly recommend you check it out um additionally with the um early access offers we are offering you get a free beat the beatmach with it um or you can get the fluency package absolutely for free and instead of uh six months access you'll get eight months access so you'll get access until basically the end of this year if you buy it uh towards the end of April you're going to get it towards the end of December and it's pretty amazing so uh definitely go check that out if you're looking for something thorough to get you to master this c uh master all the content for the TCO and I'm pretty we're probably going to do a money back guarantee i'm like kind of scared to like to put it out there yet i might wait until like all the um content is dropped but I think we're probably going to do a money back guarantee like if you complete all of the modules uh and pass your and don't pass the exam we'll probably do a money back guarantee uh until you pass so um so we'll probably put that into place it's not not set in stone yet but I'm pretty confident in this product and I'm pretty confident it's going to be uh just what you need to pass the exam and if you combine it with our super ultimate mock bundle which has our toughest mock exams and our toughest mini mocks um you'll definitely be grooving ready to go so uh highly recommend checking out those products if you are interested in some thorough study materials uh last week it was also pretty crazy uh we had somebody mention that like hey they asked like "Hey if we get a UB tattoo do you get the course for free?" And like I thought it was kind of a joke at first and then uh we had somebody do it so we've got we've got understanding behavior in the flesh now uh the first UV tattoo and uh Emily Surf Kushi um she got it and you know I'm I'm a man of my word she got the course absolutely for free i think it looks it looks pretty sick uh to get understanding behavior tattooed in the flesh so uh Emily is now our our biggest fan you be for life um I think it's actually her her ankle but pretty pretty sick um and I think yeah I did not expect that to happen it kind of like blew my mind away i'm like "Yeah our our students are dedicated." So I'm going to send her a bunch of merch uh because that just that just freaking rules uh I'm going to put a video up later this week too uh I've got a nerdy behavior analysis tattoo as well so I don't want to talk about that and show it off so it'll just be a fun video uh once I get the content drop out for this next week so that was fun and uh yeah hopefully everyone's healing up oh well Emily she's here tonight yeah well cool cool cool um I think that's all the exciting things we got going on for this month of our beat the be our beast slayer release month we're going to do a beast slayer giveaway during each of these streams so looks like we've got two we've got tonight and then two more Thursdays after um after this week so you are here in a perfect spot we're gonna uh for a giveaway to win the beast slayer course heck yeah uh and yeah all of the uh beast slayer the behavior beast slayer material is tuned for six edition absolutely and I think what really differentiates this 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body with muscular behavior glandular behavior this is talking about like gland secretion so we have like adrenaline secretion we have sweat secretion we've got um we've got spit secretion salivation um and then neuro electric neuroelectrical activity is going to talk about uh behavior of your neurons so these help um get everything to fire off talking about thinking and covert behaviors like that uh neurotransmitter secretions and things like that um so that's our more technical definition if you want a more simple definition you can just go with it's an action of an organism so something that something that an organism does uh we can also think about it as something that a dead man is unable to do so uh either of those definitions work there's two main types of behavior so we have operant behavior these are behaviors that are affected by context and consequences so affected by our antecedants and the consequences that follow when we are looking at operant behavior we know that the consequence is the most dominant factor of whether a behavior is going to occur so um the law of effects states that the effects of our actions determine whether they're repeated this is what we're talking about with operant behavior we can also think about um operant behavior as voluntary behavior so something that like if you had the physical capability to do it and I asked you to do it you could probably do it so for example if I say like jump up and down or if I say um say gaba goooo like you would be able to do any of those behaviors those would be considered operant behaviors most behavior that we look at is operant so uh it's affected by our context and consequences and it's um movement of our body the other type of behavior is reflexive behavior so reflexive behavior is a behavior that occurs automatically when a stimulus is presented we can also think about it as involuntary behavior so if I asked you to do it you would not be able to do it so if I said just like start sweating a bunch then you just like can't do it or if I was like dee decrease your heart rate by 30 BPM and it's like no you can't do it uh so uh anything that occurs automatically and uh fits like that involuntary category is going to be considered reflexive behavior and we're going to start off talking about reflexive behavior and respondent conditioning we had a question what's the difference between a behavior and a response honestly I use the words interchangeably sometimes people talk about behavior as like more broad and then response is like a single instance but honestly I think the words are completely interchangeable and you you don't lose anything all right let's talk about this word conditioning so conditioning means learning so whether we're talking about operant conditioning or respondent conditioning this means that learning is occurring a lot of people think about respondent behavior or reflexive behavior as unlearned behavior and that is incorrect if we have respondent conditioning that means that learning is involved and learning has occurred so um kind of like get like se like separate that fact where it's like unlearned or like learned is operant and unlearned is respondent that's totally incorrect both involve conditioning that means learning is occurring um we have conditioning of both stimuli and behavior so stimuli are conditioned through pairing with other stimuli this is the main function of respondent conditioning there's also operant stimuli can be paired um who know like we don't talk about it in this presentation but we do talk about it in the beast layer course who knows like what is the result of operant pairing when we're pairing two operant stimuli together what what's the result of that can anybody know let's see that in chat so yeah tough a tough question uh we have oper when we have operant pairing what is formed when we pair two operant stimuli together it's not not quite reinforcement tammy you might want to spell that out because that's an acronym for a different term but I kind of like where you're going not necessarily higher order we could have higher order conditioning with either operant or respondent conditioning i think Kayla's on it yeah the question is what is the result of operant pairing when we pair two operant stimuli together i like Kayla's answer the best so far good yeah Maria's on it too so um this is when we have a gen when we have a conditioned reinforcer not necessarily like a generalized condition reinforcer it could be a generalized condition reinforcer um but we see condition reinforcers or condition punishers so this is when we pair a neutral stimulus with another reinforcer it's going to turn that neutral stimulus into a conditioned reinforcer same thing with punishers uh so if we pair a neutral stimulus with a punisher it's going to turn that neutral stimulus into a conditioned punisher so um that's what operant pairing um goes on with and or sorry yeah operant pairing uh produces and then we have um respondent conditioning which we'll talk about in just a sec so stimuli are conditioned through pairing with other stimuli and then behaviors are conditioned through consequences and the context associated with them so again looking at that ABC contingency the anticedance behaviors consequences that um revolve a behavior all right let's talk about respondent conditioning first does anybody know who this guy is he's a real old guy hopefully his name rings a bell nice looking good looking good aren't I funny all right uh this is Ivon Pavlov so uh Ivan Pavlov was an interesting dude he um he actually existed like in the very early days of psychology so he was um so he was around even before Skinner's time he was uh like he was between like Sigman Freud and BF Skinner so uh Pavlov was actually not a psychologist at all he was actually somebody who uh would study digestion so he was uh doing a digestion study and he noticed something really interesting so he was working with dogs and he um was seeing like how much they would salivate when he was uh providing meat to them so he would uh show off the meat and before he would feed them dinner what he would do is he would ring a little bell that would signal like dinner time like we're about to have dinner so he was measuring the salivation of these dogs they were all hooked up to a device that would just like collect all of their saliva and he was measuring how much they were salivating and what he noticed is that they the dogs were starting to salivate before he even introduced the meat he was like he was ringing the bell and then like the dogs just started salivating he's like "Okay well this is really interesting and weird." So he's like "Screw my study." Like this is like what what I was studying doesn't matter at all this is really interesting i'm going to study this instead so uh he was really embracing like um one of Skinner's big philosophies he um one of Skinner like one of my favorite Skinner quotes is that when you stumble upon something interesting stop everything and study it so um I don't know if uh if Pavlov inspired Skinner for this quote or um if uh Pavlov just kind of like knew what was up and uh like embraced his philosophy even before Skinner put it into words but that's exactly what he did so um so really interesting thing occurred and this was the the discovery of respondent conditioning there are a lot of different terms to nail down when we're talking about respondent conditioning so we'll um get started with them the first st um thing that we're going to talk about is a neutral stimulus a neutral stimulus is a stimulus that has no eliciting power so it doesn't really have any effect it doesn't elicit any behavior when we're talking about respondent conditioning we always want to use this word elicit we'll not uh we'll save the word evokes for operant behavior so whenever we're talking about respondent relations we're always going to use this word elicit instead of evokes the next we'll nail down is an unconditioned stimulus so this is a stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response and it doesn't necessarily require any pairing to do so or at least any additional pairing so we would say that the meat would u is a us where it elicits that salivation and this is kind of programmed into our DNA or at least the dog's DNA an unconditioned response is a response elicited by the unconditioned stimulus we got two more terms here uh we have a conditioned stimulus so this is a stimulus that elicits a conditioned response and it does so because it's been paired with an unconditioned stimulus and then lastly we have a conditioned response which is a response that is elicited by a conditioned stimulus once again whenever we're talking about respondent conditioning uh we're going to use this word elicit essentially elicit means that it causes the response so uh again there's there's no like control over it like if you smell the meat then they're going to start salivating and there's nothing you can do about it all right so you guys are probably a bit familiar with Pavlov already and we've uh briefly described what was going on with his scenario we've got a really handy dandy chart here to discuss the respondent conditioning process the uh first we're going to take this line by line and see if you guys can label all of the components our first line here is that our us elicits our UR so each of these terms can be replaced with one of these terms your job is to finish this sentence so I want you to even write out the word that is in the middle here um so what is the US write the word elicitus and what is the ur as your answer let's see that in chat oh no Crystal how did I miss that i must have been sleepy when I was looking at your question it's okay we all make errors so again what we're doing right now is we're taking this first line i want you to replace the terms um each one is going to be one of these and use that word um that connects it to finish the whole thought and sentence so we have blank elicits blank all right we got some good answers coming through alyssa Shauna Amy right on track it's funny there's a typo in chat it says "Hell is an NS." I'm like I don't know if hell is a neutral stimulus i mean I don't really believe in hell but I don't think it's neutral for most people cool angel's looking good so far yeah Laura I like where you're going taurus Evelyn Emily it's all good it's funny okay loving the answers here so far looking really good our first line is that our meat powder is our unconditioned stimulus and this elicits our salivation so remember unconditioned stimulus is the uh thing that has eliciting power without requiring any pairing so the meat powder is what elicits the salivation before our pairing procedure occurs all right looking good looking good we're going to go with line two uh we've got our neutral stimulus is now paired with our unconditioned stimulus finish this sentence for me in chat let's see it all right yeah some of y'all were ready and fast on this emily Alyssa Briana looking great nice job Hie yeah there you go Erin good yeah Maddie good to see you here looking good yeah Lisa Leslie Aaron Aua yeah there you go Tammy yeah Kayla Ify looking great everyone nice job yay Jameson i'm glad you're here okay looking groovy all right so our neutral stimulus remember this is the thing that does not have eliciting power this is going to be our bell and our bell is paired with our meat powder our unconditioned stimulus so uh unconditioned stimulus did not change the meat powder still has the eliciting power um but in this conditioning process the um bell is going to be paired with our unconditioned stimulus for our third line um the stimulus is going to be the same so we would just say that the bell our neutral stimulus here becomes a condition stimulus so we don't need to u wrestle with this line too much uh lastly we're going to look at our final line our CS now elicits our CR let's replace the terms in there what do you guys got so this is going to be the result of our pairing procedure yeah answers looking great y'all are grooving we've got 105 people here that's a great turnout 61 likes on the video you know I I have a number in mind um for doing our Beast Slayer giveaway tonight so um let's get those likes up and we can give away the beast slayer cores even faster uh and if we get even the higher number that I'm thinking of uh we'll do a bonus giveaway too so we we'll give away lots of stuff tonight if we get the likes on the video but we need the likes to win the giveaways all right thanks for everybody who's hit that and is continuing to hit that it's looking great we're at our 69 mark a brilliant number we We like the hearts too but yeah the the likes are going to be the thumbs up for the um for the giveaways all right looks really groovy everyone nice job um so final line here this is now that our bell is uh going to elicit our salivation so a couple things to highlight in here our um unconditioned response and our conditioned response is exactly the same the only thing that's different is what it's elicited by so um with our unconditioned response is elicited by our unconditioned stimulus remember the neutral stimulus is the thing that doesn't have any power um and then our conditioned stimulus is um our bell in here so that's what we paired with the unconditioned stimulus and now that gains the same power as our unconditioned stimulus that our unconditioned stimulus had prior likes evoke giveaways yes Amy's using those terms correctly i love it should be the the next line here likes evoke giveaways love it love it love it all right um so let's talk a little bit about our um respondent conditioning one um one really common reflexive behavior that we like to analyze with responding conditioning is known um or sorry before we get that when common like usually when we're talking about reflexive behaviors we're looking at like emotional responses or feelings so like feelings again they kind of occur automatically when we're exposed to certain stimuli so like for example like if you see if you're watching a movie and like a dog dies just like oh my god like why is this happening and I feel like all these sad emotions like not you can kill any human in the show or whatever but don't kill the dog um so you're get like automatically produces like those emotional responses that would be considered a reflexive behavior um and again we're talking about like those glandular behaviors as well so like sweating heart rate increase um salivation those are going to be reflexive behaviors as well uh feelings of joy when so when you're experiencing something really happy then uh or like uh it's going to elicit those feelings of joy uh feelings of anxiety as well also reflexive behavior uh feelings of like intensity or anger okay so you guys just put two movies in the chat that I haven't seen but I'm probably never gonna watch them now because you're saying a dog dies in them so that's not worth it so so thanks for telling me which movies to avoid it's some operating conditioning there uh and then this uh really another another really important reflexive behavior to look at is the activation syndrome um the activation syndrome kind of a weird term and it's it's like it sounds like it's a symptom or uh like a stimulus but it's actually a behavior uh the activation syndrome is what we consider to be the the fight orflight response it has a multitude of uh reflexive behaviors involved in it so some of them include increased heart rate adrenaline secretion sweating and more so all of these things will happen at the same time and that's all considered like the activation syndrome again this is essentially the same exact thing as our fightor-flight response okay Marley and me not watching that ever either perfect thanks guys you're you're the mess all right so I want to talk a little bit about social anxiety and so we can understand like we've got Pavlov's situation down really well but let's apply these same principles to social anxiety so um we've got a a similar bank as we had for Pavlov's example so we have social situations um and then we have rejection or awkward situations note that uh rejection is going to be something that we're kind of programmed to uh elicit this fightor-flight response so uh for example like if we have an infant that is being neglected by its mother it's going to fear that it's going to feel that fear response so this is something that we're programmed from birth in our DNA to um to be fearful of is just rejection uh and then our last thing here is we're going to talk about the activation syndrome which is once again that fight orflight response so we're going to go line by line once again with our social anxiety situation so uh we're going to start off with line one our us elicits our you are what what terms are we going to replace in that sentence let's see it in chat oh no Laura was like "My school day today." Referring to this situation oh no we don't like that school's supposed to be fun all right we got a little mix of mix of answers here so again we're taking our US elicits our UR so think about it which stimulus does not require pairing to elicit this fight orflight response let's see uh well give me like 10 15 more seconds on this one bridget's changing her answer okay all right we got a couple people changing their answer all right let's go ahead and talk about this one so remember our US is the stimulus that elicits our UR without requiring any pairing so uh this is going to be our rejection in this situation so rejection is the one that does not require any pairing and it's going to uh elicit that activation syndrome that uh fight orflight response remember I was talking about like the infant if like if they're being neglected by their mother they're going to feel fearful they're going to um have that fight orflight response so uh so social situations they are not necess they don't necessarily have this um kind of interaction right from birth or right from um or like programmed into our DNA so um yeah first line here rejection elicits that activation syndrome the fight orflight response i know the crow the crowd wanted to go the other way social situations for that one but uh not quite accurate this one is our rejection is our US okay let's go for line two now we have an NS is paired with our US what do we got fill in the blanks yeah I like what Aaron Vas is saying here she's like uh a lot of people are more outgoing as children and develop social anxiety as they get older is a good way to think about it i totally agree yeah a lot of kids are just like fearless yeah heather's like "This is why I'm taking your course." Absolutely it's the best tool out there to learn behavior analysis i I'm actually so confident in this course i literally think it's the best tool out there to learn behavior analysis that that is going to exist like I I'm very proud of of the course and where it's going and I mean most of it's completed but I'm really proud of of what we have going here and if you feel like like you have a lot of disconnects between concepts or like are struggling with a framework and seeing everything through this behavioral lens I well I'd highly recommend checking it out nice yeah Heather picked it up after the last stream excellente hopefully you're enjoying it so far all right line two is looking pretty good so far let's get a few more seconds and we'll review it all right i like where we're going i like where we're going so our neutral stimulus is going to be our social situations and these are going to be paired with our unconditioned stimulus which was our rejection perfect so um the pairing of that social situation with our rejection is uh going to convert the social situations into a conditioned stimulus lastly we have a conditioned stimulus elicits a conditioned response let's go see it in chat uh so we're going to fill out this last line cs elicits our CR yay james I'm so glad you're here and enjoying all the content i love having you in the streams and yeah like I find like so many of the school programs out there are just so boring and like don't know how to get people excited about behavior analysis and that's one of my main missions it's like I find this stuff so cool like literally my whole life is behavior analysis um so I just want you guys to get excited as excited about it as I do because it's just so cool and I think the world really needs us the the society and the and uh world right now is uh really crazy so I think I think we really need more science and psychology out there so uh so be my students learn and spread the good word all right loving the answers coming out here yeah hie Akula Jen looks great shobu looks great i know it's like a symptom of like being a behavior analysis instructor is that you you get on your soap box a [Laughter] lot oh yeah Bridget I believe in you you've been you've been so invested in rocking these i think you're going to be great okay let's go ahead and review our fourth line here our uh social situations are now going to elicit our activation syndrome so uh because rejection has been paired with sorry since our social situations have been paired with rejection this turn the social situations to a CS and now our social situations are going to elicit that fight orflight fear response awesome yeah um Taurus is asking uh do I know the percentage of males in ABA uh I don't know the percentage in ABA as a whole but I believe the out of BCBAS i think it's seven no I think it's 87% female it's between 87 and 90% female there's not a whole lot of of male BCBAs out there we We are a very small few 71% BCBAS really Chris i thought I thought I read I thought I read it was higher i might be wrong on there i I thought I looked at the data recently and it was like 88% okay she said she should just looked it up she says 71% okay so maybe we're not as outnumbered as I thought but anyway we're there's not a whole lot of males um all right cool well that's how social anxiety forms and it looks like we uh met our first marker for our giveaway tonight so I think this is a good time how about we give away that beast slayer course who Who wants to become a beast slayer tonight how we feeling how we feeling we lit we We're going to do this who's going to win all right maddie wants it okay sha wants it misty wants it all right well let's go away let's go ahead and give this away for sure i think it's a good time i think it's a good time we got to do it fairly so it is going to be random i promise I am not going to to skew with the results or anything um let me get this out of here um Patricia can we have access although we're already a BCBA yeah i mean honestly yeah if you're here to learn more and you're going to use it and you're already a BCBA then yeah you can you can participate you can look be slayer is not just a BCBA like it's like a super BCBA sorry I'm getting all my screens messed up it's like a super BCBA so um yeah even if you haven't finished the or even if you're already a BCBA you can still participate only if you promise to to do all the stuff j oh I think Jameson missed it uh Jameson I think was the person who proposed the UB tattoo last week uh and then Emily went ahead and did it so we've we've got UB in the flesh thanks to Jameson for suggesting it last week so that was cool but she said apparently his wife said no so uh but super cool all right all right how about we do we got a 100 people here let's do an uh we'll do our giveaway no one to 600 any number in there is fair game we're going to pick one number whoever is closest is going to be our winner uh we will do a roll off if there's two if if it's if it's a tie so one number per person let's see it in chat and whoever is closest is uh going to get the the beast slayer is trolling me she's like "Nick quote I'm not giving away the beast slayer every week." Also Nick you're here giving away the beast slayer this is only for release month i promise it's really only for release month in May we're not going to give it away every week we might I think we we'll probably do it like once a month like a really special stream or if we like if we like break records we might give it away at that one [Laughter] but uh yeah Erin's trolling me here i'm here for [Laughter] it all right cool beans we'll give it like 20 more seconds and then we'll uh pick our winner erin here for ABA first trolling a close second i'm I'm I'm here for both so love [Applause] it okay last call for entries all right we're gonna make Grace the last entry here here's my screen for it uh our number is 127 let's see oh Nicole Zimmerly 129 oh man that's pretty close who's closer 127 who do we got i I think it's Nicole Z 129 is pretty dang close i don't think I see anyone closer please confirm for me i think Nicole Zimmerly's got it yeah all right i think we're giving it to Nicole congratulations she just won uh the Behavior Beast Slayer comprehensive BCBA exam prep course $250 value really it's a $325 value but we were on a sale this month uh yay i know it's like these these giveaways I feel like they actually feel lit like I even get excited uh I have a question does the Beast Slayer have mini mocks it has 65 quizzes in it um they're they're not like mini mocks like um the mini moach package but they are questions and they're kind of like mini mocks in their own right yeah uh sorry Nicole C uh and yeah you can you have unlimited attempts on the quizzes and all the videos you can watch them as many times you want you can take the quizzes as many times as you want to it's a really awesome course like I said I'm like I'm pretty confident that this is going to be the best product out there that teaches behavior analysis and like uh you know I might be a little arrogant but I you know you know how I teach and I think it's kind of accurate too um so um so yeah I if you're if you're studying for the exam and you really want something thorough I think the Beast Slayer is going to be enough for you um supplemented with a couple mock exams to um test your skills out and get a good uh picture of everything i think you are going to be totally grooving with the be slayer course so uh yeah yeah ub takeover here we go okay u well that was exciting congratulations to Nicole Z uh yeah just yeah send me an email at [email protected] and I'll set you up with your course right after stream lisa Lisa's asking "Can Lexi be photoshopped in the Beast Slayer outfit?" Yeah absolutely i think I think we'll have to do that she's right next to me but she's taking a nap here I'll I'll show Lexi actually no my camera no it's not going to work sorry she taken a puppy snooze next to me though and I think I just unplugged my camera so that was sweet i'm so good at this uh let me let me fix my camera sorry technical delay here i really wanted to show off Lexi but I ruined [Music] everything camera are you gonna work um I'm here hold on sorry give me one sec ah there we go yeah blame Melissa for that no I'm just kidding that's my fault and Belle saying "I listen to your videos so much that your four-year-old started to say groovy." I love that yes yes yes okay sweet sweet sweet anyway we're gonna continue on with respondent conditioning um actually we're instead of respondent conditioning we're going to talk about respondent extinction so um respondent extinction um here is our process and our definition this is when we uh repeatedly present the CS without the US which causes the CS to lose its listening power all right well that's kind of a mouthful of a definition so um let's run through some examples and uh talk about how that occurs um with Pavlov's example this is we're going to be presenting the bell without the meat powder so again we're repeatedly presenting the CS the bell without the meat powder and the effect of that is the CS is going to lose its eliciting power so as a result the bell is no longer going to elicit salivation so we're repeatedly presenting the bell and um we are not presenting the meat powder all right um for our social anxiety this is when we repeatedly present social situations but we don't have it paired with rejection or awkwardness so um again once again we're going to be repeatedly present the CS the social situations we're not going to pair it with the US um and eventually that uh CS is going to lose its listening power so the social situations are no longer going to make you feel fear so um that's respondent extinction this is also uh could be referred to as respondent unpairing so um either term works um respond to extinction is definitely the more go-to term but it really is just unpairing of the stimuli cool cool cool um so that's responding extinction there's one more term we need to get down here this is habituation this is when repeated exposures to the eliciting stimuli weaken the reflexive behavior that it elicits so we've got our little infant here he sees this ball for the first time he's like "Oh my god it's the coolest thing ever it's super novel it's eliciting a lot of joy." Um but after repeated exposures he sees the ball it's like "Okay this doesn't bring me that much joy anymore." So essentially if you want to um get rid of your social anxiety you're probably going to want to do a combination of these two things so um instead whenever you're facing anxiety it's best to just kind of plunge through it even though you really want to avoid it so uh if you plunge through it then the repeated exposures are going to uh weaken those eliciting stimuli over time so um you're going to get more comfortable with the social situations and it's going to become less fearful if you're more comfortable and less fearful of the social situations then um some respondent extinction is also likely to occur so you're probably not going to face as much rejection in those social situations so we're going to also see some unpairing which is going to continue to um get that out of the way um is my screen showing up all right just need to make sure here okay yeah I think it is something looked weird here all [Music] right uh just catch up on my chat um what is the distinct difference between habituation and respondent extinction so respondent extinction is the unpairing of the two stimuli habituation is more of like you're just getting used to it so it's repeated exposure weakens it so they're both similar in that they'll both weaken the eliciting um the the behavior that's elicited but um the the um process of it is different so respondent extinction is the unpairing the habituation is just repeated exposure and you're more used to it um Maria's asking what about fogyny do we not talk about that anymore so fogyny or fioenic selectionism uh we talk about it in the course during section A so that essentially that's like traits um that are selected through natural selection and evolution so like it like we would say that like the rejection face or like fearing feeling fearful from rejection this is a phogenic trait that's spread down through evolution in our genetics um so like they definitely kind of relates here with our respondent conditioning it's like our original um fearful behaviors but um yeah right now we're talking more about like the conditioning process and like how those change from our things yeah the question what's the difference between adaptation and habituation i think I don't think there's any difference adaptation is not really as technical of a term so yeah um Alyssa is saying when you're in the movie theater and the movie makes a loud noise you jump out of your skin however the more you hear the loud noise in the movie you don't jump as much so yeah that would be considered to be habituation where just repeated exposures weaken that response habituation versus habilitation habilitation is like rehabilitation so it's like like coming back again it's it's not really a technical term that you you need to know for behavior analysis uh a bell has a um as an example like when you live by a train station you jump every time you hear the train until habituation happens you don't jump anymore yeah exact exactly that would be that would be habituation not Yeah habituation yeah Bridget right on track there maria has uh Watson pairing loud noises with animals i think you're talking about like the little Albert experiment that would be an example of respondent conditioning so he pairs the loud the loud noises which elicit that fear and he pairs the animals which were neutral stimuli before that and now the animals elicit that fear response yep don't listen to pass the big so much stuff wrong i know poor Albert are Pavlov and Watson similar uh no oh they're they're totally different [Laughter] people all right we're going to move on to operant conditioning we've got our boy here Burrus Friedrich uh so our boy here BF Skinner he was really the person to um do all of the work with our operant conditioning operate conditioning was actually originally noted by Watson so Watson was um Watson was a very early psychologist and he was the first one to kind of like look at the law of effect so looking at um whether our the effects of our actions determine whether or not they were repeated skinner was like "Oh this actually applies everywhere." And like really fleshed this out did tons of experiments to validate our principles of behavior and if we didn't have BFG like we wouldn't know what reinforcement is we wouldn't know what SDS are uh and we wouldn't we wouldn't really understand behavior nearly as well as we do the today yeah um BF Skinner also known as the rat daddy for sure we still got to get some shirts going on that I got to get an artist on that uh so essentially when we're looking at operating conditioning we're looking at that basic contingency the ABC contingency and um and how like the associated consequences they control all non-reflexive behavior so another easy way to think about operant behavior is it's any behavior that's not a reflexive behavior so not like an emotional behavior not a glandular behavior not a neuroelectrical behavior literally everything else is going to be an operate behavior so yeah so okay so apparently Snaba teaches that Pavlov and Watson are similar so uh Pavlov he was the person who discovered respondent conditioning watson did the lot Watson did a lot of different experiments so one of the most famous he's known for is the little Albert experiment so that's what where he's pairing the loud noises with the animals and now they made this kid fear animals so they are similar in that respect where they looked at respondent conditioning in that way but Watson did so much he did so many other things other than uh the little Albert experiment so Watson I would say actually Watson's bigger contribution is that he first identified the law of effect i think I would say it's a way bigger contribution than the little Albert study the little Albert study is just like yeah we can scare we can make a kid scared of animals like what did that really tell us it really wasn't wasn't a whole lot uh but but really his biggest discovery was this law of effect where it's like okay if good consequences happen after behavior then people do it more it's way more important of a discovery than the little Albert study so yeah I would say Watson's Watson's biggest discovery was really the law of effect yeah ST is confused sometimes too not a trash on them they have good stuff too and And I know their materials are fine but uh I've seen more than a few errors from them i I like to nerd about the history i don't think there's going to be a whole lot of information on the history on history on the BCBA exam i think it's fun to know where you came from though i think it's important um all right yeah Shauna I I would disregard that pavlov's really like the respondent conditioning watson and Skinner are mostly operant conditioning all right um let's keep moving forward so uh the basic logic behind operant conditioning is that uh organisms engage in behavior to achieve more reinforcing consequences and fewer punishing consequences obviously this is very oversimplified but um it's generally how organisms behave uh when we are dealing with like reinforcing or punishing stimuli uh we also have our context or anticedants they get associated with these consequences for the behavior and they can also change the functions of those behaviors so uh yeah we'll go through an example in in a sec these anticedants they can also alter the likelihood of behavior so this is talking about evocative and abative effects we know that SDS um and MOS and prompts they can either have uh evocative or abive effects depending on the history and how they're paired um with behavior and consequences uh what's really neat about operating conditioning is that these uh principles of behavior are experimentally validated so we've proven time and time and again that reinforcement increases future rate of behavior um it's not a myth it's not um something that we're unsure of it's something that we're we're very sure of if something is actually a reinforcer it follows a behavior and um it's going to um change the rate of the behavior or increase it all right a quick question in chat can I ask what a big S and a little S or sorry a big S and a little P means in the format of S delta so if it's like S delta P then it's a it's an S delta for punishment typically so it's a stimulus that signals that punishment is not available if you want to learn more about this stuff behavior be slayer course i'm telling you I'm to learn these basic principles there's literally nothing better out there if it doesn't have the delta it's just SP if it's a little P that's going to be a um a conditioned punisher if it's a big P it's going to be an unconditioned punisher all right so I like to think about us we're just we're just meat machines and we respond to um our inputs and um our biology responds to those inputs and it changes what the meat machine actually does there are lots of different things that control operant behavior and we'll uh break these up into a few different categories so uh we have consequences these uh again relating to our law of effect this uh are uh states that the effects of our actions determine whether they will be repeated or not consequences that increase rate we've got reinforcement either positive or negative reinforcement also recovery from punishment so this is when a behavior is no longer punished um it's going to increase that rate because it's no longer being punished decreasing rate we've got punishment both positive and negative as well as extinction um the consequences also look at the schedule of reinforcement and punishment so not just if it's receiving reinforcing or punishing consequences but how frequently is it doing so and um based on what factors is it doing so uh we also have contextual stimuli that we need to look at this is a um just another fancy word to say anticedants so um our anticedants that we want to look at are our motivating operations these alter how powerful our consequences are so if we have a strong mo in place this can make a reinforcer really strong or reinforcer weak can also make a punisher really strong or a punisher really weak we have pairing of stimuli we talked a little about this earlier uh remember the pairing of operant stimuli this is neutral stimuli with reinforcers or neutral stimuli with punishers and this creates either condition reinforcers or condition punishers sds and S deltas these signal the availability of consequences so how likely is something going to get reinforced or punished compared with our anticedent context and then we also have prompts prompts make certain behaviors more likely to occur uh so uh these are supplemental stimuli that increase the likelihood of of responses they are not like SDS where they signal reinforcement but they um but they can make responses more likely and have that evocative effect lastly we have rules rules describe context and consequences uh for behavior and they may alter rate and uh we're we're skipping rules in this presentation but uh we talk about them in the behavior be slayer course so uh there's some fun examples if you want to go check that out there's also an activity that looks at u whether rules are powerful or weak and lastly we have our behavioral history which is everything that the meat machine or us have experienced in the past and this determines what we do now so all of our history of all of our behavior the consequences of them and the context that get associated with them that makes up our behavioral history so all these things control operant behavior these are uh the most important factors that we want to look at uh we can explain or change behavior with any of these tools so um utilize them appropriately and you will become a behavior master all right um that is gonna Oh no it doesn't wrap us up for today we have an example all right uh yeah Jakarus let me I'll check over for your emails i don't think I've seen it yet though i'll I'll I'll take another look you might have been sending it to the wrong one but uh yeah shoot me a message after all right so let's look at a quick example uh we're drinking uh from a cup of water results in water in the mouth so really simple behavior but um but there's a lot of complex components that can that um are involved here the right way to explain this uh with the law of effect is that Nick drinks from his cup because it has resulted in water in the past really important part about this is we're talking about past consequences of behavior and how this determines future rates of behavior now it would be incorrect to say Nick drinks to get water we would say Nick drinks because it has resulted in water in the past again this is really if we're only doing a really technical analysis uh but we always want to root it in past consequences for behavior all right um looking at extinction um extinction for this behavior would be if we drink from the cup and it does not result in water so it's not necessarily that the cup isn't there it's just that the cup is there and it's either empty um because it would not result in water and this would uh decrease drinking from the cup in general but only under that condition when the cup is empty this forms what we call a discrimination training procedure so um what happens is that I'm more likely to drink from the cup when there is water in it and I'm less likely to drink from a cup when there's not water in it uh in addition we could look at motivating factors so if I haven't drank water in a while this is going to increase the value of water and it's going to make it more likely that I'm going to drink water uh we've got some really nice diagrams and we use these all over the beast slayer chorus as well so uh we can run through this one here's our antecedent is that I currently uh don't have any water i drink from the bottle under our SD condition when there is water in the bottle this results in water in my mouth uh this is going to increase the rate of drinking water when there is water in the bottle our S delta is that there is no water in the bottle this signals extinction for this behavior so I have no water drink from the bottle no water so the response is not getting reinforced as a result this is going to decrease the rate of drinking water when there is no water in the bottle so our extinction is going to get associated with our antecedent and now this antecedent S delta of no water in the bottle is going to have an abative effect on this behavior decrease that likelihood because it's paired with no reinforcement for that behavior so we're just looking at like the most simple behavior ever um which is just drinking water but there's so many different components to it and um if you really want to become a behavior master uh you have to understand how each different component plays a part and um you can get really nerdy with it and uh and break these down to to really um minute details and whenever we're looking at behavior usually there's just going to be a couple components that are most relevant to it so if you can identify those and 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I would do like one big mock then do the minis and then do the other big mock like a week before your exam i think it's the best way to go about it maddie I'll I'll uh message Amber and and have her reach out to you cool cool cool all right thanks so much for coming tonight everybody yeah congrats Nicole shoot me that email and we'll get you set up with the Be Slayer course and I will hopefully see you at the next one have a great week everyone have a lovely weekend and I'll see you next Thursday bye bye bye

good evening everyone and welcome to the Understanding Behavior live stream i'm so glad you can make it tonight we've got a great topic for y'all we're going to talk about respondent and operant conditioning it's going to be lit how's everybody feeling tonight uh we had some really exciting news last week i mean you're probably here because it was like the most lit stream we've ever had but uh we announced the understanding behavior beast slayer course it's now been out for a whole week how has how have people been liking it so far has anybody here that uh that's been using the course and been digging it okay yeah people are feeling good we've got good great uh Crystal like spring break needs to hurry up for sure we got Emily E looking for a study buddy for sure study buddies are great shauna Heather doing well ify doing well sweet yeah glad you guys are are doing well overall yeah a couple couple people having painful days it's to be expected you know life is hard it's been a long day over here too uh busy getting more stuff ready for this co uh for this course release tomorrow nice taylor just picked it up today congratulations erin's looking for a buddy too maybe you guys should connect yeah Anita just about to get that new course sick sick sick yay Lisa i'm so glad you're here what I hope hopefully what you heard about me is good all right love it love it love it well cool well if you uh missed out last week uh we did announce the behavior be slayer comprehensive course it is really awesome oh look who we've got in chat here shuthie just passed the exam on Tuesday your content and be the beat the beast mocks helped me a lot a big thank you yay let's everybody give a big congrats to Shuty i knew you would kill it you've been nailing it in these study halls yes way to go congratulations love it love it love it love it um so yeah the Behavior Beast Slayer course just came out last Thursday in early access we have our second content drop tomorrow uh it is pretty awesome let me just highlight some of the things for you uh we are doing a couple um we are doing a couple things in our um early access release so the normal price on May 1st is going to go up to $325 but uh this month only you can get it for $250 which is a great deal um trust me this is this course is really everything that you need to pass this exam it has over 13 hours of interactive videos um the qu there's actually like questions built into the video so like it will have um the question is displayed um and then it will like pause the video let's see if we can get to a point here but it'll actually like pause the video and have you select the the uh correct option let's I think it's going to do it like right here so um yeah it has like questions built into the video so like right here you can just um read the question and then select the correct answer and then it'll give you some feedback and then um you can resume the video from there so super cool uh way to keep you engaged during these videos most of the videos are like pretty bite-size and consumable they're um between like five and 20 minutes overall um you can access the uh you can try the course for free at a link that I'll drop in just a second into chat but highly recommend you check it out um additionally with the um early access offers we are offering you get a free beat the beatmach with it um or you can get the fluency package absolutely for free and instead of uh six months access you'll get eight months access so you'll get access until basically the end of this year if you buy it uh towards the end of April you're going to get it towards the end of December and it's pretty amazing so uh definitely go check that out if you're looking for something thorough to get you to master this c uh master all the content for the TCO and I'm pretty we're probably going to do a money back guarantee i'm like kind of scared to like to put it out there yet i might wait until like all the um content is dropped but I think we're probably going to do a money back guarantee like if you complete all of the modules uh and pass your and don't pass the exam we'll probably do a money back guarantee uh until you pass so um so we'll probably put that into place it's not not set in stone yet but I'm pretty confident in this product and I'm pretty confident it's going to be uh just what you need to pass the exam and if you combine it with our super ultimate mock bundle which has our toughest mock exams and our toughest mini mocks um you'll definitely be grooving ready to go so uh highly recommend checking out those products if you are interested in some thorough study materials uh last week it was also pretty crazy uh we had somebody mention that like hey they asked like "Hey if we get a UB tattoo do you get the course for free?" 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body with muscular behavior glandular behavior this is talking about like gland secretion so we have like adrenaline secretion we have sweat secretion we've got um we've got spit secretion salivation um and then neuro electric neuroelectrical activity is going to talk about uh behavior of your neurons so these help um get everything to fire off talking about thinking and covert behaviors like that uh neurotransmitter secretions and things like that um so that's our more technical definition if you want a more simple definition you can just go with it's an action of an organism so something that something that an organism does uh we can also think about it as something that a dead man is unable to do so uh either of those definitions work there's two main types of behavior so we have operant behavior these are behaviors that are affected by context and consequences so affected by our antecedants and the consequences that follow when we are looking at operant behavior we know that the consequence is the most dominant factor of whether a behavior is going to occur so um the law of effects states that the effects of our actions determine whether they're repeated this is what we're talking about with operant behavior we can also think about um operant behavior as voluntary behavior so something that like if you had the physical capability to do it and I asked you to do it you could probably do it so for example if I say like jump up and down or if I say um say gaba goooo like you would be able to do any of those behaviors those would be considered operant behaviors most behavior that we look at is operant so uh it's affected by our context and consequences and it's um movement of our body the other type of behavior is reflexive behavior so reflexive behavior is a behavior that occurs automatically when a stimulus is presented we can also think about it as involuntary behavior so if I asked you to do it you would not be able to do it so if I said just like start sweating a bunch then you just like can't do it or if I was like dee decrease your heart rate by 30 BPM and it's like no you can't do it uh so uh anything that occurs automatically and uh fits like that involuntary category is going to be considered reflexive behavior and we're going to start off talking about reflexive behavior and respondent conditioning we had a question what's the difference between a behavior and a response honestly I use the words interchangeably sometimes people talk about behavior as like more broad and then response is like a single instance but honestly I think the words are completely interchangeable and you you don't lose anything all right let's talk about this word conditioning so conditioning means learning so whether we're talking about operant conditioning or respondent conditioning this means that learning is occurring a lot of people think about respondent behavior or reflexive behavior as unlearned behavior and that is incorrect if we have respondent conditioning that means that learning is involved and learning has occurred so um kind of like get like se like separate that fact where it's like unlearned or like learned is operant and unlearned is respondent that's totally incorrect both involve conditioning that means learning is occurring um we have conditioning of both stimuli and behavior so stimuli are conditioned through pairing with other stimuli this is the main function of respondent conditioning there's also operant stimuli can be paired um who know like we don't talk about it in this presentation but we do talk about it in the beast layer course who knows like what is the result of operant pairing when we're pairing two operant stimuli together what what's the result of that can anybody know let's see that in chat so yeah tough a tough question uh we have oper when we have operant pairing what is formed when we pair two operant stimuli together it's not not quite reinforcement tammy you might want to spell that out because that's an acronym for a different term but I kind of like where you're going not necessarily higher order we could have higher order conditioning with either operant or respondent conditioning i think Kayla's on it yeah the question is what is the result of operant pairing when we pair two operant stimuli together i like Kayla's answer the best so far good yeah Maria's on it too so um this is when we have a gen when we have a conditioned reinforcer not necessarily like a generalized condition reinforcer it could be a generalized condition reinforcer um but we see condition reinforcers or condition punishers so this is when we pair a neutral stimulus with another reinforcer it's going to turn that neutral stimulus into a conditioned reinforcer same thing with punishers uh so if we pair a neutral stimulus with a punisher it's going to turn that neutral stimulus into a conditioned punisher so um that's what operant pairing um goes on with and or sorry yeah operant pairing uh produces and then we have um respondent conditioning which we'll talk about in just a sec so stimuli are conditioned through pairing with other stimuli and then behaviors are conditioned through consequences and the context associated with them so again looking at that ABC contingency the anticedance behaviors consequences that um revolve a behavior all right let's talk about respondent conditioning first does anybody know who this guy is he's a real old guy hopefully his name rings a bell nice looking good looking good aren't I funny all right uh this is Ivon Pavlov so uh Ivan Pavlov was an interesting dude he um he actually existed like in the very early days of psychology so he was um so he was around even before Skinner's time he was uh like he was between like Sigman Freud and BF Skinner so uh Pavlov was actually not a psychologist at all he was actually somebody who uh would study digestion so he was uh doing a digestion study and he noticed something really interesting so he was working with dogs and he um was seeing like how much they would salivate when he was uh providing meat to them so he would uh show off the meat and before he would feed them dinner what he would do is he would ring a little bell that would signal like dinner time like we're about to have dinner so he was measuring the salivation of these dogs they were all hooked up to a device that would just like collect all of their saliva and he was measuring how much they were salivating and what he noticed is that they the dogs were starting to salivate before he even introduced the meat he was like he was ringing the bell and then like the dogs just started salivating he's like "Okay well this is really interesting and weird." So he's like "Screw my study." Like this is like what what I was studying doesn't matter at all this is really interesting i'm going to study this instead so uh he was really embracing like um one of Skinner's big philosophies he um one of Skinner like one of my favorite Skinner quotes is that when you stumble upon something interesting stop everything and study it so um I don't know if uh if Pavlov inspired Skinner for this quote or um if uh Pavlov just kind of like knew what was up and uh like embraced his philosophy even before Skinner put it into words but that's exactly what he did so um so really interesting thing occurred and this was the the discovery of respondent conditioning there are a lot of different terms to nail down when we're talking about respondent conditioning so we'll um get started with them the first st um thing that we're going to talk about is a neutral stimulus a neutral stimulus is a stimulus that has no eliciting power so it doesn't really have any effect it doesn't elicit any behavior when we're talking about respondent conditioning we always want to use this word elicit we'll not uh we'll save the word evokes for operant behavior so whenever we're talking about respondent relations we're always going to use this word elicit instead of evokes the next we'll nail down is an unconditioned stimulus so this is a stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response and it doesn't necessarily require any pairing to do so or at least any additional pairing so we would say that the meat would u is a us where it elicits that salivation and this is kind of programmed into our DNA or at least the dog's DNA an unconditioned response is a response elicited by the unconditioned stimulus we got two more terms here uh we have a conditioned stimulus so this is a stimulus that elicits a conditioned response and it does so because it's been paired with an unconditioned stimulus and then lastly we have a conditioned response which is a response that is elicited by a conditioned stimulus once again whenever we're talking about respondent conditioning uh we're going to use this word elicit essentially elicit means that it causes the response so uh again there's there's no like control over it like if you smell the meat then they're going to start salivating and there's nothing you can do about it all right so you guys are probably a bit familiar with Pavlov already and we've uh briefly described what was going on with his scenario we've got a really handy dandy chart here to discuss the respondent conditioning process the uh first we're going to take this line by line and see if you guys can label all of the components our first line here is that our us elicits our UR so each of these terms can be replaced with one of these terms your job is to finish this sentence so I want you to even write out the word that is in the middle here um so what is the US write the word elicitus and what is the ur as your answer let's see that in chat oh no Crystal how did I miss that i must have been sleepy when I was looking at your question it's okay we all make errors so again what we're doing right now is we're taking this first line i want you to replace the terms um each one is going to be one of these and use that word um that connects it to finish the whole thought and sentence so we have blank elicits blank all right we got some good answers coming through alyssa Shauna Amy right on track it's funny there's a typo in chat it says "Hell is an NS." I'm like I don't know if hell is a neutral stimulus i mean I don't really believe in hell but I don't think it's neutral for most people cool angel's looking good so far yeah Laura I like where you're going taurus Evelyn Emily it's all good it's funny okay loving the answers here so far looking really good our first line is that our meat powder is our unconditioned stimulus and this elicits our salivation so remember unconditioned stimulus is the uh thing that has eliciting power without requiring any pairing so the meat powder is what elicits the salivation before our pairing procedure occurs all right looking good looking good we're going to go with line two uh we've got our neutral stimulus is now paired with our unconditioned stimulus finish this sentence for me in chat let's see it all right yeah some of y'all were ready and fast on this emily Alyssa Briana looking great nice job Hie yeah there you go Erin good yeah Maddie good to see you here looking good yeah Lisa Leslie Aaron Aua yeah there you go Tammy yeah Kayla Ify looking great everyone nice job yay Jameson i'm glad you're here okay looking groovy all right so our neutral stimulus remember this is the thing that does not have eliciting power this is going to be our bell and our bell is paired with our meat powder our unconditioned stimulus so uh unconditioned stimulus did not change the meat powder still has the eliciting power um but in this conditioning process the um bell is going to be paired with our unconditioned stimulus for our third line um the stimulus is going to be the same so we would just say that the bell our neutral stimulus here becomes a condition stimulus so we don't need to u wrestle with this line too much uh lastly we're going to look at our final line our CS now elicits our CR let's replace the terms in there what do you guys got so this is going to be the result of our pairing procedure yeah answers looking great y'all are grooving we've got 105 people here that's a great turnout 61 likes on the video you know I I have a number in mind um for doing our Beast Slayer giveaway tonight so um let's get those likes up and we can give away the beast slayer cores even faster uh and if we get even the higher number that I'm thinking of uh we'll do a bonus giveaway too so we we'll give away lots of stuff tonight if we get the likes on the video but we need the likes to win the giveaways all right thanks for everybody who's hit that and is continuing to hit that it's looking great we're at our 69 mark a brilliant number we We like the hearts too but yeah the the likes are going to be the thumbs up for the um for the giveaways all right looks really groovy everyone nice job um so final line here this is now that our bell is uh going to elicit our salivation so a couple things to highlight in here our um unconditioned response and our conditioned response is exactly the same the only thing that's different is what it's elicited by so um with our unconditioned response is elicited by our unconditioned stimulus remember the neutral stimulus is the thing that doesn't have any power um and then our conditioned stimulus is um our bell in here so that's what we paired with the unconditioned stimulus and now that gains the same power as our unconditioned stimulus that our unconditioned stimulus had prior likes evoke giveaways yes Amy's using those terms correctly i love it should be the the next line here likes evoke giveaways love it love it love it all right um so let's talk a little bit about our um respondent conditioning one um one really common reflexive behavior that we like to analyze with responding conditioning is known um or sorry before we get that when common like usually when we're talking about reflexive behaviors we're looking at like emotional responses or feelings so like feelings again they kind of occur automatically when we're exposed to certain stimuli so like for example like if you see if you're watching a movie and like a dog dies just like oh my god like why is this happening and I feel like all these sad emotions like not you can kill any human in the show or whatever but don't kill the dog um so you're get like automatically produces like those emotional responses that would be considered a reflexive behavior um and again we're talking about like those glandular behaviors as well so like sweating heart rate increase um salivation those are going to be reflexive behaviors as well uh feelings of joy when so when you're experiencing something really happy then uh or like uh it's going to elicit those feelings of joy uh feelings of anxiety as well also reflexive behavior uh feelings of like intensity or anger okay so you guys just put two movies in the chat that I haven't seen but I'm probably never gonna watch them now because you're saying a dog dies in them so that's not worth it so so thanks for telling me which movies to avoid it's some operating conditioning there uh and then this uh really another another really important reflexive behavior to look at is the activation syndrome um the activation syndrome kind of a weird term and it's it's like it sounds like it's a symptom or uh like a stimulus but it's actually a behavior uh the activation syndrome is what we consider to be the the fight orflight response it has a multitude of uh reflexive behaviors involved in it so some of them include increased heart rate adrenaline secretion sweating and more so all of these things will happen at the same time and that's all considered like the activation syndrome again this is essentially the same exact thing as our fightor-flight response okay Marley and me not watching that ever either perfect thanks guys you're you're the mess all right so I want to talk a little bit about social anxiety and so we can understand like we've got Pavlov's situation down really well but let's apply these same principles to social anxiety so um we've got a a similar bank as we had for Pavlov's example so we have social situations um and then we have rejection or awkward situations note that uh rejection is going to be something that we're kind of programmed to uh elicit this fightor-flight response so uh for example like if we have an infant that is being neglected by its mother it's going to fear that it's going to feel that fear response so this is something that we're programmed from birth in our DNA to um to be fearful of is just rejection uh and then our last thing here is we're going to talk about the activation syndrome which is once again that fight orflight response so we're going to go line by line once again with our social anxiety situation so uh we're going to start off with line one our us elicits our you are what what terms are we going to replace in that sentence let's see it in chat oh no Laura was like "My school day today." Referring to this situation oh no we don't like that school's supposed to be fun all right we got a little mix of mix of answers here so again we're taking our US elicits our UR so think about it which stimulus does not require pairing to elicit this fight orflight response let's see uh well give me like 10 15 more seconds on this one bridget's changing her answer okay all right we got a couple people changing their answer all right let's go ahead and talk about this one so remember our US is the stimulus that elicits our UR without requiring any pairing so uh this is going to be our rejection in this situation so rejection is the one that does not require any pairing and it's going to uh elicit that activation syndrome that uh fight orflight response remember I was talking about like the infant if like if they're being neglected by their mother they're going to feel fearful they're going to um have that fight orflight response so uh so social situations they are not necess they don't necessarily have this um kind of interaction right from birth or right from um or like programmed into our DNA so um yeah first line here rejection elicits that activation syndrome the fight orflight response i know the crow the crowd wanted to go the other way social situations for that one but uh not quite accurate this one is our rejection is our US okay let's go for line two now we have an NS is paired with our US what do we got fill in the blanks yeah I like what Aaron Vas is saying here she's like uh a lot of people are more outgoing as children and develop social anxiety as they get older is a good way to think about it i totally agree yeah a lot of kids are just like fearless yeah heather's like "This is why I'm taking your course." Absolutely it's the best tool out there to learn behavior analysis i I'm actually so confident in this course i literally think it's the best tool out there to learn behavior analysis that that is going to exist like I I'm very proud of of the course and where it's going and I mean most of it's completed but I'm really proud of of what we have going here and if you feel like like you have a lot of disconnects between concepts or like are struggling with a framework and seeing everything through this behavioral lens I well I'd highly recommend checking it out nice yeah Heather picked it up after the last stream excellente hopefully you're enjoying it so far all right line two is looking pretty good so far let's get a few more seconds and we'll review it all right i like where we're going i like where we're going so our neutral stimulus is going to be our social situations and these are going to be paired with our unconditioned stimulus which was our rejection perfect so um the pairing of that social situation with our rejection is uh going to convert the social situations into a conditioned stimulus lastly we have a conditioned stimulus elicits a conditioned response let's go see it in chat uh so we're going to fill out this last line cs elicits our CR yay james I'm so glad you're here and enjoying all the content i love having you in the streams and yeah like I find like so many of the school programs out there are just so boring and like don't know how to get people excited about behavior analysis and that's one of my main missions it's like I find this stuff so cool like literally my whole life is behavior analysis um so I just want you guys to get excited as excited about it as I do because it's just so cool and I think the world really needs us the the society and the and uh world right now is uh really crazy so I think I think we really need more science and psychology out there so uh so be my students learn and spread the good word all right loving the answers coming out here yeah hie Akula Jen looks great shobu looks great i know it's like a symptom of like being a behavior analysis instructor is that you you get on your soap box a [Laughter] lot oh yeah Bridget I believe in you you've been you've been so invested in rocking these i think you're going to be great okay let's go ahead and review our fourth line here our uh social situations are now going to elicit our activation syndrome so uh because rejection has been paired with sorry since our social situations have been paired with rejection this turn the social situations to a CS and now our social situations are going to elicit that fight orflight fear response awesome yeah um Taurus is asking uh do I know the percentage of males in ABA uh I don't know the percentage in ABA as a whole but I believe the out of BCBAS i think it's seven no I think it's 87% female it's between 87 and 90% female there's not a whole lot of of male BCBAs out there we We are a very small few 71% BCBAS really Chris i thought I thought I read I thought I read it was higher i might be wrong on there i I thought I looked at the data recently and it was like 88% okay she said she should just looked it up she says 71% okay so maybe we're not as outnumbered as I thought but anyway we're there's not a whole lot of males um all right cool well that's how social anxiety forms and it looks like we uh met our first marker for our giveaway tonight so I think this is a good time how about we give away that beast slayer course who Who wants to become a beast slayer tonight how we feeling how we feeling we lit we We're going to do this who's going to win all right maddie wants it okay sha wants it misty wants it all right well let's go away let's go ahead and give this away for sure i think it's a good time i think it's a good time we got to do it fairly so it is going to be random i promise I am not going to to skew with the results or anything um let me get this out of here um Patricia can we have access although we're already a BCBA yeah i mean honestly yeah if you're here to learn more and you're going to use it and you're already a BCBA then yeah you can you can participate you can look be slayer is not just a BCBA like it's like a super BCBA sorry I'm getting all my screens messed up it's like a super BCBA so um yeah even if you haven't finished the or even if you're already a BCBA you can still participate only if you promise to to do all the stuff j oh I think Jameson missed it uh Jameson I think was the person who proposed the UB tattoo last week uh and then Emily went ahead and did it so we've we've got UB in the flesh thanks to Jameson for suggesting it last week so that was cool but she said apparently his wife said no so uh but super cool all right all right how about we do we got a 100 people here let's do an uh we'll do our giveaway no one to 600 any number in there is fair game we're going to pick one number whoever is closest is going to be our winner uh we 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Also Nick you're here giving away the beast slayer this is only for release month i promise it's really only for release month in May we're not going to give it away every week we might I think we we'll probably do it like once a month like a really special stream or if we like if we like break records we might give it away at that one [Laughter] but uh yeah Erin's trolling me here i'm here for [Laughter] it all right cool beans we'll give it like 20 more seconds and then we'll uh pick our winner erin here for ABA first trolling a close second i'm I'm I'm here for both so love [Applause] it okay last call for entries all right we're gonna make Grace the last entry here here's my screen for it uh our number is 127 let's see oh Nicole Zimmerly 129 oh man that's pretty close who's closer 127 who do we got i I think it's Nicole Z 129 is pretty dang close i don't think I see anyone closer please confirm for me i think Nicole Zimmerly's got it yeah all right i think we're giving it to Nicole congratulations she just won uh the Behavior Beast Slayer comprehensive BCBA exam prep course $250 value really it's a $325 value but we were on a sale this month uh yay i know it's like these these giveaways I feel like they actually feel lit like I even get excited uh I have a question does the Beast Slayer have mini mocks it has 65 quizzes in it um they're they're not like mini mocks like um the mini moach package but they are questions and they're kind of like mini mocks in their own right yeah uh sorry Nicole C uh and yeah you can you have unlimited attempts on the quizzes and all the videos you can watch them as many times you want you can take the quizzes as many times as you want to it's a really awesome course like I said I'm like I'm pretty confident that this is going to be the best product out there that teaches behavior analysis and like uh you know I might be a little arrogant but I you know you know how I teach and I think it's kind of accurate too um so um so yeah I if you're if you're studying for the exam and you really want something thorough I think the Beast Slayer is going to be enough for you um supplemented with a couple mock exams to um test your skills out and get a good uh picture of everything i think you are going to be totally grooving with the be slayer course so uh yeah yeah ub takeover here we go okay u well that was exciting congratulations to Nicole Z uh yeah just yeah send me an email at understandingbehaviorofficial@gmail.com and I'll set you up with your course right after stream lisa Lisa's asking "Can Lexi be photoshopped in the Beast Slayer outfit?" Yeah absolutely i think I think we'll have to do that she's right next to me but she's taking a nap here I'll I'll show Lexi actually no my camera no it's not going to work sorry she taken a puppy snooze next to me though and I think I just unplugged my camera so that was sweet i'm so good at this uh let me let me fix my camera sorry technical delay here i really wanted to show off Lexi but I ruined [Music] everything camera are you gonna work um I'm here hold on sorry give me one sec ah there we go yeah blame Melissa for that no I'm just kidding that's my fault and Belle saying "I listen to your videos so much that your four-year-old started to say groovy." I love that yes yes yes okay sweet sweet sweet anyway we're gonna continue on with respondent conditioning um actually we're instead of respondent conditioning we're going to talk about respondent extinction so um respondent extinction um here is our process and our definition this is when we uh repeatedly present the CS without the US which causes the CS to lose its listening power all right well that's kind of a mouthful of a definition so um let's run through some examples and uh talk about how that occurs um with Pavlov's example this is we're going to be presenting the bell without the meat powder so again we're repeatedly presenting the CS the bell without the meat powder and the effect of that is the CS is going to lose its eliciting power so as a result the bell is no longer going to elicit salivation so we're repeatedly presenting the bell and um we are not presenting the meat powder all right um for our social anxiety this is when we repeatedly present social situations but we don't have it paired with rejection or awkwardness so um again once again we're going to be repeatedly present the CS the social situations we're not going to pair it with the US um and eventually that uh CS is going to lose its listening power so the social situations are no longer going to make you feel fear so um that's respondent extinction this is also uh could be referred to as respondent unpairing so um either term works um respond to extinction is definitely the more go-to term but it really is just unpairing of the stimuli cool cool cool um so that's responding extinction there's one more term we need to get down here this is habituation this is when repeated exposures to the eliciting stimuli weaken the reflexive behavior that it elicits so we've got our little infant here he sees this ball for the first time he's like "Oh my god it's the coolest thing ever it's super novel it's eliciting a lot of joy." Um but after repeated exposures he sees the ball it's like "Okay this doesn't bring me that much joy anymore." So essentially if you want to um get rid of your social anxiety you're probably going to want to do a combination of these two things so um instead whenever you're facing anxiety it's best to just kind of plunge through it even though you really want to avoid it so uh if you plunge through it then the repeated exposures are going to uh weaken those eliciting stimuli over time so um you're going to get more comfortable with the social situations and it's going to become less fearful if you're more comfortable and less fearful of the social situations then um some respondent extinction is also likely to occur so you're probably not going to face as much rejection in those social situations so we're going to also see some unpairing which is going to continue to um get that out of the way um is my screen showing up all right just need to make sure here okay yeah I think it is something looked weird here all [Music] right uh just catch up on my chat um what is the distinct difference between habituation and respondent extinction so respondent extinction is the unpairing of the two stimuli habituation is more of like you're just getting used to it so it's repeated exposure weakens it so they're both similar in that they'll both weaken the eliciting um the the behavior that's elicited but um the the um process of it is different so respondent extinction is the unpairing the habituation is just repeated exposure and you're more used to it um Maria's asking what about fogyny do we not talk about that anymore so fogyny or fioenic selectionism uh we talk about it in the course during section A so that essentially that's like traits um that are selected through natural selection and evolution so like it like we would say that like the rejection face or like fearing feeling fearful from rejection this is a phogenic trait that's spread down through evolution in our genetics um so like they definitely kind of relates here with our respondent conditioning it's like our original um fearful behaviors but um yeah right now we're talking more about like the conditioning process and like how those change from our things yeah the question what's the difference between adaptation and habituation i think I don't think there's any difference adaptation is not really as technical of a term so yeah um Alyssa is saying when you're in the movie theater and the movie makes a loud noise you jump out of your skin however the more you hear the loud noise in the movie you don't jump as much so yeah that would be considered to be habituation where just repeated exposures weaken that response habituation versus habilitation habilitation is like rehabilitation so it's like like coming back again it's it's not really a technical term that you you need to know for behavior analysis uh a bell has a um as an example like when you live by a train station you jump every time you hear the train until habituation happens you don't jump anymore yeah exact exactly that would be that would be habituation not Yeah habituation yeah Bridget right on track there maria has uh Watson pairing loud noises with animals i think you're talking about like the little Albert experiment that would be an example of respondent conditioning so he pairs the loud the loud noises which elicit that fear and he pairs the animals which were neutral stimuli before that and now the animals elicit that fear response yep don't listen to pass the big so much stuff wrong i know poor Albert are Pavlov and Watson similar uh no oh they're they're totally different [Laughter] people all right we're going to move on to operant conditioning we've got our boy here Burrus Friedrich uh so our boy here BF Skinner he was really the person to um do all of the work with our operant conditioning operate conditioning was actually originally noted by Watson so Watson was um Watson was a very early psychologist and he was the first one to kind of like look at the law of effect so looking at um whether our the effects of our actions determine whether or not they were repeated skinner was like "Oh this actually applies everywhere." And like really fleshed this out did tons of experiments to validate our principles of behavior and if we didn't have BFG like we wouldn't know what reinforcement is we wouldn't know what SDS are uh and we wouldn't we wouldn't really understand behavior nearly as well as we do the today yeah um BF Skinner also known as the rat daddy for sure we still got to get some shirts going on that I got to get an artist on that uh so essentially when we're looking at operating conditioning we're looking at that basic contingency the ABC contingency and um and how like the associated consequences they control all non-reflexive behavior so another easy way to think about operant behavior is it's any behavior that's not a reflexive behavior so not like an emotional behavior not a glandular behavior not a neuroelectrical behavior literally everything else is going to be an operate behavior so yeah so okay so apparently Snaba teaches that Pavlov and Watson are similar so uh Pavlov he was the person who discovered respondent conditioning watson did the lot Watson did a lot of different experiments so one of the most famous he's known for is the little Albert experiment so that's what where he's pairing the loud noises with the animals and now they made this kid fear animals so they are similar in that respect where they looked at respondent conditioning in that way but Watson did so much he did so many other things other than uh the little Albert experiment so Watson I would say actually Watson's bigger contribution is that he first identified the law of effect i think I would say it's a way bigger contribution than the little Albert study the little Albert study is just like yeah we can scare we can make a kid scared of animals like what did that really tell us it really wasn't wasn't a whole lot uh but but really his biggest discovery was this law of effect where it's like okay if good consequences happen after behavior then people do it more it's way more important of a discovery than the little Albert study so yeah I would say Watson's Watson's biggest discovery was really the law of effect yeah ST is confused sometimes too not a trash on them they have good stuff too and And I know their materials are fine but uh I've seen more than a few errors from them i I like to nerd about the history i don't think there's going to be a whole lot of information on the history on history on the BCBA exam i think it's fun to know where you came from though i think it's important um all right yeah Shauna I I would disregard that pavlov's really like the respondent conditioning watson and Skinner are mostly operant conditioning all right um let's keep moving forward so uh the basic logic behind operant conditioning is that uh organisms engage in behavior to achieve more reinforcing consequences and fewer punishing consequences obviously this is very oversimplified but um it's generally how organisms behave uh when we are dealing with like reinforcing or punishing stimuli uh we also have our context or anticedants they get associated with these consequences for the behavior and they can also change the functions of those behaviors so uh yeah we'll go through an example in in a sec these anticedants they can also alter the likelihood of behavior so this is talking about evocative and abative effects we know that SDS um and MOS and prompts they can either have uh evocative or abive effects depending on the history and how they're paired um with behavior and consequences uh what's really neat about operating conditioning is that these uh principles of behavior are experimentally validated so we've proven time and time and again that reinforcement increases future rate of behavior um it's not a myth it's not um something that we're unsure of it's something that we're we're very sure of if something is actually a reinforcer it follows a behavior and um it's going to um change the rate of the behavior or increase it all right a quick question in chat can I ask what a big S and a little S or sorry a big S and a little P means in the format of S delta so if it's like S delta P then it's a it's an S delta for punishment typically so it's a stimulus that signals that punishment is not available if you want to learn more about this stuff behavior be slayer course i'm telling you I'm to learn these basic principles there's literally nothing better out there if it doesn't have the delta it's just SP if it's a little P that's going to be a um a conditioned punisher if it's a big P it's going to be an unconditioned punisher all right so I like to think about us we're just we're just meat machines and we respond to um our inputs and um our biology responds to those inputs and it changes what the meat machine actually does there are lots of different things that control operant behavior and we'll uh break these up into a few different categories so uh we have consequences these uh again relating to our law of effect this uh are uh states that the effects of our actions determine whether they will be repeated or not consequences that increase rate we've got reinforcement either positive or negative reinforcement also recovery from punishment so this is when a behavior is no longer punished um it's going to increase that rate because it's no longer being punished decreasing rate we've got punishment both positive and negative as well as extinction um the consequences also look at the schedule of reinforcement and punishment so not just if it's receiving reinforcing or punishing consequences but how frequently is it doing so and um based on what factors is it doing so uh we also have contextual stimuli that we need to look at this is a um just another fancy word to say anticedants so um our anticedants that we want to look at are our motivating operations these alter how powerful our consequences are so if we have a strong mo in place this can make a reinforcer really strong or reinforcer weak can also make a punisher really strong or a punisher really weak we have pairing of stimuli we talked a little about this earlier uh remember the pairing of operant stimuli this is neutral stimuli with reinforcers or neutral stimuli with punishers and this creates either condition reinforcers or condition punishers sds and S deltas these signal the availability of consequences so how likely is something going to get reinforced or punished compared with our anticedent context and then we also have prompts prompts make certain behaviors more likely to occur uh so uh these are supplemental stimuli that increase the likelihood of of responses they are not like SDS where they signal reinforcement but they um but they can make responses more likely and have that evocative effect lastly we have rules rules describe context and consequences uh for behavior and they may alter rate and uh we're we're skipping rules in this presentation but uh we talk about them in the behavior be slayer course so uh there's some fun examples if you want to go check that out there's also an activity that looks at u whether rules are powerful or weak and lastly we have our behavioral history which is everything that the meat machine or us have experienced in the past and this determines what we do now so all of our history of all of our behavior the consequences of them and the context that get associated with them that makes up our behavioral history so all these things control operant behavior these are uh the most important factors that we want to look at uh we can explain or change behavior with any of these tools so um utilize them appropriately and you will become a behavior master all right um that is gonna Oh no it doesn't wrap us up for today we have an example all right uh yeah Jakarus let me I'll check over for your emails i don't think I've seen it yet though i'll I'll I'll take another look you might have been sending it to the wrong one but uh yeah shoot me a message after all right so let's look at a quick example uh we're drinking uh from a cup of water results in water in the mouth so really simple behavior but um but there's a lot of complex components that can that um are involved here the right way to explain this uh with the law of effect is that Nick drinks from his cup because it has resulted in water in the past really important part about this is we're talking about past consequences of behavior and how this determines future rates of behavior now it would be incorrect to say Nick drinks to get water we would say Nick drinks because it has resulted in water in the past again this is really if we're only doing a really technical analysis uh but we always want to root it in past consequences for behavior all right um looking at extinction um extinction for this behavior would be if we drink from the cup and it does not result in water so it's not necessarily that the cup isn't there it's just that the cup is there and it's either empty um because it would not result in water and this would uh decrease drinking from the cup in general but only under that condition when the cup is empty this forms what we call a discrimination training procedure so um what happens is that I'm more likely to drink from the cup when there is water in it and I'm less likely to drink from a cup when there's not water in it uh in addition we could look at motivating factors so if I haven't drank water in a while this is going to increase the value of water and it's going to make it more likely that I'm going to drink water uh we've got some really nice diagrams and we use these all over the beast slayer chorus as well so uh we can run through this one here's our antecedent is that I currently uh don't have any water i drink from the bottle under our SD condition when there is water in the bottle this results in water in my mouth uh this is going to increase the rate of drinking water when there is water in the bottle our S delta is that there is no water in the bottle this signals extinction for this behavior so I have no water drink from the bottle no water so the response is not getting reinforced as a result this is going to decrease the rate of drinking water when there is no water in the bottle so our extinction is going to get associated with our antecedent and now this antecedent S delta of no water in the bottle is going to have an abative effect on this behavior decrease that likelihood because it's paired with no reinforcement for that behavior so we're just looking at like the most simple behavior ever um which is just drinking water but there's so many different components to it and um if you really want to become a behavior master uh you have to understand how each different component plays a part and um you can get really nerdy with it and uh and break these down to to really um minute details and whenever we're looking at behavior usually there's just going to be a couple components that are most relevant to it so if you can identify those and change those then you can uh change behavior and become behavior master beast slayer all right I think that is officially the end of our presentation maria's asking how can you get in contact with other study buddies i would highly recommend joining our understanding behavior power preppers group for that and so join this group on Facebook that is the best way to get in touch with other like-minded folks that are studying for the exam uh check out understanding behavior shop we have uh 20 more days of the amazing early access deals for the behavior be slayer course you can also try it for free i'm so if you go here into the beast slayer course and then click here try for free there is a link and then you need to just scroll down to the free sections and I would highly recommend starting with this basic contingencies 101 video um it is pretty amazing and um and if you like that then you can um continue on and there's a few more videos you can do and then you can uh pay to continue on and uh really become a master of all of these these concepts so check it out if you haven't already thank you so much if you've already picked up the Be Slayer course i really hope that you are enjoying it so far um and uh we'll be back next week we'll do another giveaway for the Beast Slayer course then and um we have another content drop uh tomorrow evening we're going to drop the rest of section B and we're also going to drop section C and D so that's gonna be super groovy uh if you want to rewatch this live it will be available immediately you can watch it you can start it over right now um it'll be great um Erin's asking "If you do the ultimate mock bundle should you do the mini mocks before taking the big mocks?" I would do like one big mock then do the minis and then do the other big mock like a week before your exam i think it's the best way to go about it maddie I'll I'll uh message Amber and and have her reach out to you cool cool cool all right thanks so much for coming tonight everybody yeah congrats Nicole shoot me that email and we'll get you set up with the Be Slayer course and I will hopefully see you at the next one have a great week everyone have a lovely weekend and I'll see you next Thursday bye bye bye

Transcript for:Exploring Conditioning and New Course

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Exploring Conditioning and New Course