Chapter 4

Question 1

artifact

Answer 1

a phenomenon that appears to exist because of the way it is examined or measured.

Question 2

celeration

Answer 2

measures the change in the increase or decrease of a response

Question 3

count

Answer 3

tally of how often something happen

Question 4

discrete triaIs

Answer 4

a contrived opportunity to give a response.

Question 5

duration

Answer 5

from the time the behavior starts, until the time it stops

Question 6

event recording

Answer 6

the method of recording the number of times a behavior occurred

Question 7

free operant

Answer 7

Behaviors that are free to occur at anytime and have a clear beginning and end

Question 8

interresponse time (IRT)

Answer 8

the amount of that that passes between occurrences of a behavior

Question 9

latency

Answer 9

the amount of time between the stimulus present and the response’

Question 10

magnitude

Answer 10

the intensity of a behavior

Question 11

measurement

Answer 11

applying a quantitative label to on observable event

Question 12

measurement by permanent product

Answer 12

measuring the behavior after it occurred by measure the behaviors effect on the Environment

Question 13

momentary time sampling

Answer 13

look at the client one time every minute for 5 minutes, when you looked was the behavior occurring?

Question 14

partial-interval recording

Answer 14

did a behavior occur at any point during a given time interval

Question 15

percentage

Answer 15

number of times something occurred over the number of opportunities

Question 16

planned activity check (PLACHECK)

Answer 16

observes a group of students at the end of each time interval, counts the number of students engaged in the targeted activity, and records the tally with the total number of students in the group.

Question 17

rate

Answer 17

the number of times something happen in a period or total number or attempts

Question 18

repeatability

Answer 18

Each instance of a behavior can be counted over and over again

Question 19

temporal extent

Answer 19

duration, how long something occurred

Question 20

time sampling

Answer 20

a variety of methods for observing and recording behavior during a specific moments

Question 21

topography

Answer 21

the shape of a behavior

Question 22

trials-to-criterion

Answer 22

the number of times it take for you to do something to do it correctly.

Question 23

whole-interval recording

Answer 23

did the behavior occur throughout this entire time interval?

Question 24

Temporal locus

Answer 24

what specific time it happen