Laraway Sean, Snycerski Susan, Michael Jack, Poling Alan
Anal Verbal Behav. 2002;18:101-4. doi: 10.1007/BF03392974.
Behavior-analytic terminology concerning the so-called inhibitory effect of operant antecedents lacks precision. The present paper describes the problem with current nomenclature concerning the effects of antecedent events that reduce operant responding and offers a solution to this problem. The solution consists of adopting a new term, abative, for the effect in question. This paper suggests that the new term has several advantages over terms currently used and that adopting this term will yield a variety of practical and theoretical benefits, including, but not limited to, a more consistent vocabulary to describe antecedent-behavior relations.
行为分析中关于操作性前提事件所谓抑制作用的术语缺乏精确性。本文描述了当前关于减少操作性反应的前提事件影响的命名问题，并提出了解决该问题的方案。该方案包括采用一个新术语“减弱性的”来描述相关效应。本文认为，这个新术语相对于目前使用的术语具有若干优势，采用该术语将产生各种实践和理论上的益处，包括但不限于形成一个更一致的词汇表来描述前提 - 行为关系。
