Motivating Operations versus Discriminative Stimuli

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1 Antecedents Motivating Operations versus Discriminative Stimuli Motivating operation refers to an idea in behaviorism utilized in the clarification of the flitting adequacy of consequences in an operating condition. They are conditions that increase an individual’s need to reinforce even more (Edwards, Lotfizadeh, and Poling, 2019). On the other hand, a discriminative stimulus refers to a stimulus condition that results in the flashing adequacy of some specific form of reinforcement and promotes the recurrence of a specific kind of reaction (Edwards, Lotfizadeh, and Poling, 2019). This happens due to the fact that that stimulus condition has been connected with an increase in the recurrence with which that kind of reaction has been trailed. The following table gives the similarities and differences between motivating operations and discriminative stimuli.

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