Prerequisite: Stimulus Discrimination and Generalization

After discrimination and generalization, the student has a better understanding of the most basic learning processes and is ready to explore how a discriminated stimulus comes to control a particular behavior. This course busts a lot of myths about “controlling behavior” as students are introduced to what experimental behavior analysis has taught us about the most effective and efficient ways to put a behavior “on cue” – or in other words, to put a behavior under stimulus control – which is a more accurate and helpful way to describe what is really going on.

By definition, a behavior is under stimulus control (on cue) when the behavior occurs in the presence of a certain stimulus and does not occur when that stimulus is not present. Simple, right? Unfortunately many behaviors that a trainer may want under stimulus control by specific stimuli are not. In other…