Antecedent (behavioral psychology)

[2] An example of cognitive learning is riding a bike, where the environment (changing of the road path, weather, turns etc.)

[10] The discriminative stimuli is believed to be the identifying event alerting the mind that a reinforcement will occur in exchange for a specific behavior.

[10] Another scientific paper [12] states that antecedent variables can be proximal (things like financial stressors or job satisfaction), and conducted an experiment to see if these stimuli could induce relapse to alcohol problems.

[12] The antecedent here is a setting event,[10] as it happens due to social variables in order to effect a response.

[10][11] An indirect effect [13] reinforces the theory of discriminative stimuli,[10] as it is an identifying event that is one reason behind the learned behavior being performed.

[10] Stimuli that activate the "motivation" part of the brain have been tested through areas of competition in certain categories like, for example, tourism places.

Things like gift shops, hotels, and restaurants depend on the flow of tourism to keep their businesses thriving.

For example, in order to override antecedent 2, gain the students’ attention and immediately request something (e.g., a high five), before praising them and providing positive reinforcement.

[15] This intervention fits in with the idea of classical conditioning,[3] as the child is rewarded with positive affirmation when they complete a task.

[16] This article similarly agrees with another [10] that setting events and discriminative stimuli are the two antecedent variables, and that both of these can be used in different ways in interventions.

Changing the antecedent from a hard maths test to an easier or shorter one, or warning the child prior, had a positive effect on the behavior observed.