Cooper, Heron, and Heward Flashcards

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a two phase experimental design consisting of a pre-treatment baseline condition (A) followed by a treatment condition (B).

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A-B Design

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An experiment entailing one reversal

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A-B-A Design

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A-B-A-B Design

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an experiment reintroducing the B condition enables the replication of treatment effects, which strengthens the demonstration of experimental control

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abative effect

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A decrease 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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5
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The preferred method to use for behavioral assessment to determine which behavior to target for change is:

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ABC recording

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

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Abolishing operation

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The extent to which observed values, the data produced by measuring an event, match the true state, or true values, of the event as it exists in nature

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Accuracy

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behavior that occurs as a collateral effect of a schedule of periodic reinforcement for other behavior: time-filling or interim activities that are induced by schedules of reinforcement during times when reinforcement is unlikely to be derived-aka schedule-induced behavior

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Adjunctive Behavior

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the predictive power of steady state responding enables the behavior analyst to employ a kind of inductive logic

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Affirmation of the Consequent

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10
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the rapid alternation of two or more distinct treatments while their effects on the target behavior are measured

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Alternating Treatments Design

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11
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provides positive reinforcement whenever the requirement of either a ratio schedule or interval schedule is met, regardless of which of the component schedule’s requirement is met first.

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Alternative Schedule

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12
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a form of direct, continuous observation in which the observer records a descriptive, temporally sequenced account of all behavior(s) of interest and the antecedent conditions and consequences for those behaviors as those events occur in the client’s natural environment

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anecdotal observation

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13
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An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest.

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antecedent

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14
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A behavior change strategy that manipulates contingency-independent antecedent stimuli (motivating operation).

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antecedent intervention

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15
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an outcome or result that appears to exist because of the way it is measured but in fact does not correspond to what actually occurred

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artifact

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Measurement ________ are data that given unwarranted or misleading picture of the behavior because of the way measurement was conducted.

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Artifacts

17
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  • shows an increasing trend in the behavior over time

- a data path that shows increasing trend in the response measure over time

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Ascending Baseline

18
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anyone who functions as a discriminative stimulus evoking verbal behavior

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audience

19
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an SD or an MO for an additional speaker verbal behavior

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autoclitic

20
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punishment that occurs independent of the social mediation by others (i.e., a response product serves as a punisher independent of the social environment).

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automatic punishment

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reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others

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automatic reinforcement

22
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behavior is modified by its consequences irrespective of the person’s awareness. Person doesn’t have to know that a consequence has occurred

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automaticity of reinforcement

23
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an unpleasant or noxious stimulus

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aversive stimulus

24
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a contingency in which a response prevents or postpones the presentation of a stimulus

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avoidance contingency

25
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begins with application of the independent variable: the treatment

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B-A-B design

26
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tangible objects, activities, or privileges that serve as reinforcers and that can be purchased with tokens

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backup reinforcer