Provide a one to two sentence definition for each of the following items:

Provide a one to two sentence definition for each of the following items:

Primary reinforcer
Secondary reinforcer
Premack Principle
Negative reinforcement
Contingent
Generalization


Primary Reinforcer: Consequence that satisfies a biologically built-in need. They address a basic biological need (food, water, oxygen, etc.).

Secondary Reinforcer: Consequence that becomes reinforcing over time through its association with another reinforcer. They don't satisfy and physiological need but become reinforcing over time through their association with other reinforcers (money, praise, good grades, etc.).

Premack Principle: Phenomenon in which learners do less=preferred activities in order to engage in more preferred activities

Negative Reinforcement: Consequences that brings about the increase of a behavior through the removal (rather than presentation) of a stimulus

Contingent:Situation in which one event happens only after another event has already occurred

Generalization:Phenomenon in which a person learns a response to a particular stimulus and then makes the same response to a similar stimulus' in classical conditioning, involves making a conditioned response to a stimulus similar to a conditioned stimulus.