BEHP 5011, Units 6-9 Flashcards

1
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The spread of the effects of reinforcement to responses outside the limits of an operant class

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Induction

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2
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Opposite of differentiation

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Response generalization

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3
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Its onset weakens behavior that precedes onset

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Aversive stimulus

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4
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List four domains of behavior analysis

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Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
Behavior Analysis Service Delivery
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior

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5
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Two value-altering effects of motivating operations

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Establishing and abolishing effects

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6
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Decreases the momentary frequency of a response class

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Abative effect

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7
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Introduced the term “establishing operation”

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Keller and Schoenfeld

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8
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Deals with philosophical and theoretical issues

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Conceptual Analysis

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9
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Reinforcement occurs if and only if the rate of response is equal to or greater than a specified value

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Differential Reinforcement of a High Rate of Responding (DRH)

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10
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Reinforcement is delivered after a certain number of responses

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Ratio

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11
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An alteration in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event as a result of a motivating operation.

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Value-altering effect

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12
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A motivating operation that establishes the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer

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Establishing operation

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13
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Verbal operant under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli without point-to-point correspondence and with no formal similarity

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Intraverbal

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14
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Opposite of response generalization

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Differentiation

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15
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Consists of two or more schedules of reinforcement operating simultaneously but independently of each other, each for a different response

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Concurrent schedules

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16
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Two general types of motivating operations

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Establishing operations and abolishing operations

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17
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Schedule of reinforcement that produces steady, low to moderate rates of responding

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Variable Interval schedule

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18
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The repeating of a vocal verbal unit

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Echoic

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19
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An increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation

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Evocative effect

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20
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The likelihood that a consequence will follow a specific response now

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Availability

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21
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Term used by E.A. Vargas instead of “listener”

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Mediator

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22
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Each and every single response that is emitted is reinforced; used to establish or strengthen behavior

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Continuous reinforcement (CRF)

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23
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A stimulus or operation which evokes or abates a behavior due to having a value-altering effect on the consequence which reinforces or punishes that behavior

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Motivating operation

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24
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Its offset strengthens behavior that precedes offset

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Aversive stimulus

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25
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Schedule of reinforcement that produces a pause in responding immediately after reinforcement which is followed by a gradual increase in the rate of responding, with the highest rates at the time closest to reinforcement

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Fixed Interval schedule

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26
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Motivating operations increase or decrease the effectiveness of a stimulus as a consequence. This is a ______ effect.

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Value-altering

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27
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Its offset weakens behavior that precedes offset

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Appetitive stimulus

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28
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No discriminative stimuli (Sds) in the links of the chain

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Tandem schedule

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29
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An establishing operation whose value-altering effect is of ontogenic provenance

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Conditioned establishing operation (CEO)

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30
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Increase in the momentary effectiveness of a specific reinforcer or punisher

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Establishing effect

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31
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A sequence of responses in which each response produces a stimulus change that functions as conditioned reinforcement for that response and as a discriminative stimulus for the next response in the chain

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Behavior chain

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32
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A change in one component of a multiple schedule that increases or decreases the rate of responding on that component is accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule

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Behavioral contrast

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33
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The set of assessment and behavior change procedures validated by ABA researchers

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Behavioral technology

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34
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The number of responses, or amount of time, is random, but centers around a particular value

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Variable

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35
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Name four other unconditioned motivating operations (in addition to deprivation/satiation)

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Too cold, too warm, sex, painful stimulation

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36
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The speaker selects a stimulus in the environment by pointing or finding a picture and handing it to the listener

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Selection-based verbal behavior

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37
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Organisms match relative rates of behavior to relative rates of reinforcement

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Matching Law

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38
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Stimuli that occur between two responses in a chain

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Links

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39
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An operant class that includes within it other classes that can themselves function as operants

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Higher-order class

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40
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Introduced the term “motivating operations”

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Jack Michael

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41
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The rule which describes or specifies which responses will be followed by reinforcement and which will not

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Schedule of reinforcement

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42
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Two effects of AOs related to reinforcement

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Reinforcer-abolishing effect and abative effect

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43
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The terminal target response is similar in form to the initial response, but varies across some dimension, such as rate or duration

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Shaping within topographies

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44
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Three parameters of reinforcement

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Magnitude, quantity, duration

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45
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Behavior acquired via immediate reinforcement contingencies

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Contingency-shaped behavior

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46
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A decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is decreased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation

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Abative effect

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47
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Helps other persons to achieve their outcomes with the implementation of procedures validated by ABA researchers to make a difference in people’s lives

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ABA Practice

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48
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Its presentation evokes behavior that terminates it

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Aversive stimulus

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49
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The implementation of basic principles to change behaviors of significance to clients. Which dimension of ABA?

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Applied

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50
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Operant behavior reinforced through the mediation of other persons

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Verbal behavior

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51
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These explain behavior by referring to hypothetical constructs from a dimension that is inferred to be inside the organism

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Mentalistic explanations

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52
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Name the seven dimensions of ABA

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Applied, Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Effective, Generality

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53
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A restriction placed on an interval schedule requiring that the response occur within a specified time limit following the interval to be eligible for reinforcement

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Limited Hold

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54
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A schedule of reinforcement in which the response requirements of two or more basic schedules must be met in a specific sequence before reinforcement is delivered

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Chained schedule

55
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Painful stimulation may also evoke ______

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Aggression

56
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Term used by E.A. Vargas instead of “speaker”

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Verbalizer

57
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Name 5 elementary verbal operants

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Tact, mand, duplic, codic, intraverbal

58
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Past and current behavior is explained as a function of environmental contingencies

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Environmental explanations

59
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Mentalistic or teleological explanations

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Explanatory fictions

60
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Establishing and abolishing operations are _____ effects

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Value-altering

61
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Matching law is related to _________ schedules of reinforcement

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Concurrent (two different schedules for two different responses)

62
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Motivating operations that alter the effectiveness of reinforcers as a result of the individual organism’s learning history

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Conditioned motivating operations

63
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May elicit smooth muscle and gland responses

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Aversive or appetitive stimulus

64
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Duplic which has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity to the written verbal stimulus

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Copying a text

65
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List four methodologies of EAB

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Direct, repeated measurement of behavior
Rate of response as the basic datum
Visual inference (graphing)
Within-subject comparisons

66
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The listener discriminates what the speaker is “saying” based on the topography of the verbal behavior

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Topography-based verbal behavior

67
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The imitation of a physical movement that is also a non-vocal verbal unit

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Mimetic

68
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The differential reinforcement of successive approximations to a target behavior

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Shaping

69
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Name five deprivation/satiation unconditioned motivating operations

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Food, water, sleep, activity, oxygen

70
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Behavior under the antecedent control of a mand to comply

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Receptive language

71
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Schedule of reinforcement that produces a pause in responding immediately after reinforcement which is followed by a burst of responding. Pauses tend to be longer the thinner the schedule.

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Fixed Ratio schedule

72
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Cover various functions of stimuli; used to categorize stimuli that have multiple functions

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Omnibus terms

73
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Composed of listeners who belong to a trained verbal community

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Audience

74
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The design, implementation, and evaluation of systematic environmental modifications to produce socially significant improvements in human behavior

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ABA

75
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A behavioral effect associated with abrupt increases in ratio requirements when moving from denser to thinner reinforcement schedules

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Ratio strain

76
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An alteration in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is altered in effectiveness by the same motivating operation.

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Behavior-altering effect

77
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Schedule of reinforcement that produces high and steady rates of responding

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Variable Ratio schedule

78
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Procedures are linked to, and described in terms of, the basic principles of behavior. Which dimension of ABA?

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Conceptually systematic

79
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The individual emitting the verbal response

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Speaker

80
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A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event

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Abolishing operation

81
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Verbal operant under the antecedent control of a non-verbal stimulus

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Tact

82
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Verbal operant under the antecedent control of an establishing operation

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Mand

83
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An antecedent condition, operation, or stimulus that alters the effectiveness of a consequence and has a momentary effect on a dimension of behavior

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Motivating operation

84
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The likelihood that if the consequence occurs now it will be effective as reinforcement or punishment for the behavior

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Value

85
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Summary labels of behavior (such as traits, states, attitudes, diagnostic categories) and other hypothetical constructs are used to explain behavior

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Mentalisms

86
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A higher-order operant response class that is under the control of verbal antecedent stimuli

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Rule-governed behavior

87
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A preferred stimulus is delivered at a point in time without a response requirement

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Time-based schedules

88
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Alter the evocative or abative effect of other antecedent stimuli

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Function-altering effects of rules

89
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Applied research that applies the basic principles derived from EAB to solve problems of social significance

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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

90
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Opposite of stimulus generalization

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Discrimination

91
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Consists of two or more alternating schedules of reinforcement, each associated with a different stimulus

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Multiple schedules

92
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The basic foundation for our conceptual analyses and permeates all the branches

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Radical behaviorism

93
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The allocation of responses to choices available on concurrent schedules of reinforcement

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Matching Law

94
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“reinforcement by relief”

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Negative reinforcement

95
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The number of responses, or amount of time, remains the same

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Fixed

96
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Uses future events to explain behaviors

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Teleological explanations

97
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A conditioned reinforcer is produced by completion of the response requirements for that component schedule in the chain

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Chained schedule

98
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“Scalloped” schedule of reinforcement

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Fixed Interval schedule

99
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Increase the effectiveness (value) of a consequence (reinforcer or punisher)

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Establishing operation

100
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Decrease the effectiveness of a consequence

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Abolishing operation

101
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An abolishing operation whose value-altering effect is of ontogenic provenance

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Conditioned abolishing operation (CAO)

102
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The individual the speaker interacts with

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Listener

103
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Name 3 types of duplic

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Echoics (verbal imitation, repeating), Copying a text, Mimetics (motor imitation)

104
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Its onset strengthens behavior that precedes onset

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Appetitive stimulus

105
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Procedures are completely identified, precisely described and defined. Which dimension of ABA?

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Technological

106
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Increases the momentary frequency of a response class

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Evocative effect

107
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An accountable discipline in which changes in procedure are data-based. Which dimension of ABA?

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Effective

108
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Behavioral contrast is related to ________ schedules of reinforcement

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Multiple (two alternating schedules with signaling for the same response)

109
Q

Skinner’s view of language is classified with respect to:

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Function

110
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The contingency for reinforcement is governed by the time elapsed between successive responses

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DRH-IRT schedules

111
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An establishing operation whose value-altering effect is of phylogenic provenance

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Unconditioned establishing operation (UEO)

112
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It abates behavior that removes it

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Appetitive stimulus

113
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Two effects of EOs related to reinforcement

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Reinforcer-establishing effect and evocative effect

114
Q

Directly observed and measured. Which dimension of ABA?

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Behavioral

115
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A stimulus which evokes or abates behavior due to a past history of differential reinforcement for that behavior depending on its presence or absence

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Discriminative stimulus

116
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Two general effects of motivating operations

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Behavior-altering and value-altering effects

117
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Reinforcement is delivered for the first response after a certain amount of time since the previous reinforcement

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Interval

118
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Consists of two or more alternating schedules of reinforcement, without different stimuli associated.

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Mixed schedules

119
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Basic research; provides the scientific method for studying behavior by using cumulative records, manipulation of variables, and automatic recording

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Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)

120
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Two behavior-altering effects of motivating operations

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Evoke or abate

121
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The terminal target response is a distinct topography - a different response - than the response that is currently occurring

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Shaping across topographies

122
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Seeks to identify functional relations between manipulated environmental events and behavior through systematic and controlled manipulations. Which dimension of ABA?

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Analytic

123
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Opposite of discrimination

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Stimulus generalization

124
Q

The contrast between available or unavailable consequences

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Differential availability

125
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Another term for induction

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Response generalization

126
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Function-altering stimuli which alter the effects of neutral stimuli so that they function as Sds or MOs

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Rules

127
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Decrease in the momentary effectiveness of a specific reinforcer or punisher

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Abolishing effect

128
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Verbal operant under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli with point-to-point correspondence but without formal similarity

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Codic

129
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Some responses are reinforced and some are not; used to maintain already established behavior

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Intermittent reinforcement

130
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An abolishing operation whose value-altering effect is of phylogenic provenance

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Unconditioned abolishing operation (UAO)

131
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All or none schedule of reinforcement

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Fixed Ratio schedule

132
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Verbal operant under the antecedent control of verbal stimuli with point-to-point correspondence and with formal similarity to the response

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Duplic

133
Q

Painful stimulation is always an ____

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Establishing operation

134
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Behavior changes achieved should maintain, transfer to other settings and situations, and spread to other behaviors. Which dimension of ABA?

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Generality