Day 2

Question 0

Latency

Answer 0

The time between he signal or opportunity for a response and the beginning of the response

Question 1

The don’t say rule

Answer 1

With nonverbal organisms, don't say:
Expects,
Knows,
Thinks,
Figures out, 
In order to (or so that he,she,or it could),
Trying to, 
Makes the connection, 
Associates,
Learns that,
Imagines,
Or understands.

With any organisms, don’t say:
Wants.

Question 2

Extinction

Answer 2

Stopping the reinforcement or escape contingency for a previously reinforced response causes the response frequency to decrease

Question 3

The law of effect

Answer 3

The effects of our actions determine whether we will repeat them

Question 4

Spontaneous recovery

Answer 4

A spontaneous recovery of the extinguished behavior during the first part of each of the extinction sessions that follow the first extinction session

Question 5

Time-out contingency

Answer 5

The response- contingent removal of access to a reinforcer

Question 6

Response-cost contingency

Answer 6

The response-contingent removal of a tangible reinforcer

Question 7

Penalty contingency

Answer 7

The response-contingent removal of a reinforcer (positive reinforcer) resulting in a decreased frequency of that response

Question 8

Reliability measurement

Answer 8

The comparison of measurements of dependent variables and independent variables obtained by independent observers

Question 9

Multiple baseline design

Answer 9

An experimental design in which the replications involve baselines of differing durations and interventions of differing starting times

Question 10

Punishment contingency

Answer 10

Response-contingent presentation of an aversive condition (negative reinforcer) resulting in a decreased frequency of that response

Question 11

Over correction

Answer 11

A contingency on inappropriate behavior requiring the person to engage in an effortful response that more than corrects the effects of inappropriate behavior

Question 12

The sick social cycle

Victim’s escape model

Answer 12

In escaping the perpetrator’s aversive behavior, the victim unintentionally reinforces the aversive behavior

Question 13

The sick social cycle

Victim’s punishment model

Answer 13

The perpetrator’s aversive behavior punishes the victim’s appropriate behavior. And the victim’s stopping the appropriate behavior unintentionally reinforces that aversive behavior

Question 14

Parsimony

Answer 14

The use of no unnecessary concepts, principles, or assumptions

Question 15

Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA)

Answer 15

The replacement of an inappropriate response with a specific appropriate response that produces the same reinforcing outcome