Section 2: Foundational Knowledge: The Hard Stuff

Response class, stimulus class, environment, punishment, reinforcement, extinction, stimulus control, motivating operations, distinguish between discriminative stimulus and motivating operations, conditional discriminations, stimulus discrimination, behavioral contrast, contingency-shaped behavior, rule-governed behavior, state and plan for the possible unwanted effects of reinforcement, punishment and extinction, discrimination training, stimulus equivalence, matching-to-sample procedures, ethical issues within these topics, and much more.