Introductory Concepts
Elementary Relationships
Extensions of Verbal Behavior
Multiple Controlling Relationships
Building on the Elementary Relationships
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2.12 Mediated Reinforcement Non-Example #2

If the presentation of the water results in either no increase or a decrease in the tendency to say “water,” then the scenario lacks the second defining feature and is not an example of any kind of reinforcement.

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

A graph depicting the amount of water consumed by a man.
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