Cooper, Heron, and Heward Flashcards
a two phase experimental design consisting of a pre-treatment baseline condition (A) followed by a treatment condition (B).
A-B Design
An experiment entailing one reversal
A-B-A Design
A-B-A-B Design
an experiment reintroducing the B condition enables the replication of treatment effects, which strengthens the demonstration of experimental control
abative effect
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
The preferred method to use for behavioral assessment to determine which behavior to target for change is:
ABC recording
A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.
Abolishing operation
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
Accuracy
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
Adjunctive Behavior
the predictive power of steady state responding enables the behavior analyst to employ a kind of inductive logic
Affirmation of the Consequent
the rapid alternation of two or more distinct treatments while their effects on the target behavior are measured
Alternating Treatments Design
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.
Alternative Schedule
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
anecdotal observation
An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
antecedent
A behavior change strategy that manipulates contingency-independent antecedent stimuli (motivating operation).
antecedent intervention
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
artifact
Measurement ________ are data that given unwarranted or misleading picture of the behavior because of the way measurement was conducted.
Artifacts
- shows an increasing trend in the behavior over time
- a data path that shows increasing trend in the response measure over time
Ascending Baseline
anyone who functions as a discriminative stimulus evoking verbal behavior
audience
an SD or an MO for an additional speaker verbal behavior
autoclitic
punishment that occurs independent of the social mediation by others (i.e., a response product serves as a punisher independent of the social environment).
automatic punishment
reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others
automatic reinforcement
behavior is modified by its consequences irrespective of the person’s awareness. Person doesn’t have to know that a consequence has occurred
automaticity of reinforcement
an unpleasant or noxious stimulus
aversive stimulus
a contingency in which a response prevents or postpones the presentation of a stimulus
avoidance contingency
begins with application of the independent variable: the treatment
B-A-B design
tangible objects, activities, or privileges that serve as reinforcers and that can be purchased with tokens
backup reinforcer
