2.10 Mediated Reinforcement Example #1
An example of mediated reinforcement is when you emit the vocal response “water” and someone then presents you with a glass of water, and this tends to increase or maintain your tendency to say “water” whenever water would currently be reinforcing. The key is that the reinforcement was provided by the actions of another individual.
Mediated Reinforcement
A stimulus change that has the following features:
It occurs after a response has been emitted
It increases the future probability of that response
It results from the action of another individual
Formal and dynamic features of the response
Formal and dynamic features of the controlling variable
Whether or not the current response is reinforced
The “meaning” of either the stimulus or the response
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