Antecedent (behavioral psychology)

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An antecedent is a stimulus that cues an organism to perform a learned behavior. When an organism perceives an antecedent stimulus, it behaves in a way that maximizes reinforcing consequences and minimizes punishing consequences. This might be part of complex, interpersonal communication.

Antecedent stimuli (paired with reinforcing consequences) activate centers of the brain involved in motivation,[1] while antecedent stimuli that have been paired with punishing consequences activate brain centers involved in fear.[2] Antecedents play a different role while attempting to trigger positive and negative outcomes. [3]

There are some scientific papers [4][5] that argue that there are two different types of antecedent variables.[5] These two types of antecedent variables are referred to as discriminative stimuli and setting events.[5] Setting events differ from discriminative stimuli as setting events are believed to have an effect on the stimulus-response relationship.[5] It has been suggested that setting events focus on three categories of stimuli (biological, physical and social variables).[6] Discriminative stimuli are found to be present “when a behavior is reinforced”.[5] The discriminative stimuli is believed to be the identifying event alerting the mind that a reinforcement will occur in exchange for a specific behavior.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Yin, Henry H., Sean B. Ostlund, and Bernard W. Balleine. "Reward-guided learning beyond dopamine in the nucleus accumbens: the integrative functions of cortico-basal ganglia networks." European Journal of Neuroscience 28.8 (2008): 1437–1448.
  2. ^ Killcross, S., Robbins, T. W., & Everitt, B. J. (1997). Different types of fear-conditioned behaviour mediated by separate nuclei within amygdala. Nature, 388(6640), 377-380.
  3. ^ Understanding The Antecedent Behavior Consequence Model [1]
  4. ^ McAtee, Michelle; Carr, Edward G.; Schulte, Christine; Dunlap, Glen (2004-07-01). "A Contextual Assessment Inventory for Problem Behavior: Initial Development". Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions. 6 (3): 148–165. doi:10.1177/10983007040060030301. ISSN 1098-3007.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Simó-Pinatella, David; Font-Roura, Josep; Alomar-Kurz, Elisabeth; Giné, Climent; Matson, Johnny L.; Cifre, Ignacio (2013-12-01). "Antecedent events as predictive variables for behavioral function". Research in Developmental Disabilities. 34 (12): 4582–4590. doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2013.09.040. ISSN 0891-4222.
  6. ^ Offord, David R.; Cross, Lucien A. (1969-09-01). "Behavioral Antecedents of Adult Schizophrenia: A Review". Archives of General Psychiatry. 21 (3): 267–283. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740210011003. ISSN 0003-990X.
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