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A procedure for transferring stimulus control in which features of an antecedent stimulus (eg; shape, size, position, color) controlling a behavior are gradually changed to a new stimulus while maintaining the current behavior; stimulus features can be faded in (enhanced) or faded out (reduced)
Fading
Stimuli that share common physical forms or structures (eg; made from wood, four legs, round, blue) or common relative relationships (eg; bigger than, hotter than, higher than, next to)
Feature Stimulus Class
A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is delivered for the first response emitted following the passage of a fixed duration of time since the last response was reinforced (eg; on an FI 3 minute schedule, the first response following the passage of 3 minutes is reinforced)
Fixed Interval (FI)
A schedule of reinforcement requiring a fixed number of responses for reinforcement (eg; an FR 4 schedule of reinforcement follows every fourth response)
Fixed Ratio (FR)
A DRO procedure in which reinforcement is available at the end of intervals of fixed duration and delivered contingent on the absence of the problem behavior during each interval
Fixed interval DRO (FI-DRO)
A DRO procedure in which reinforcement is available at specific moments in time, which are separated by a fixed amount of time, and delivered contingent on the problem not occurring at those moments
Fixed Momentary DRO (FM-DRO)
A schedule for the delivery of noncontingent stimuli in which a time interval remains the same from one delivery to the next
Fixed Time Schedule (FT)
Occurs when the controlling antecedent stimulus and the response or response product (a) share the same sense mode (eg; both stimulus and response are visual, auditory, or tactile) and (b) physically resemble each other
- Verbal relations with formal similarity are echoic, copying a text, and imitation as it relates to sign language
Formal Similarity
A method for teaching behavior chains that begins with the learner being prompted and taught to perform the first behavior in the task analysis; the trainer completes the remaining steps in the chain
- When the learner shows competence in performing the first step in the chain, he is then taught to perform the first two behaviors in the chain, with the training completing the chain
- This process is continued until the learner completes the entire chain independently
Forward Chaining
Intentional, willful, and deceitful behavior; such behavior can cause harm to others
Fraudulent Conduct
Any operant behavior that results in minimal displacement of the participant in time and space
- This can be emitted at nearly any time; it is discrete, it requires minimal time for completion, and it can produce a wide range of response rates
- Examples in ABA include (a) the number of words read during a 1 minute counting period, (b) the number of hand slaps per 6 seconds, and (c) the number of letter strokes written in 3 minutes
Free Operant
A contingency in which responses at any time during an interval prior to the scheduled onset of an aversive stimulus delays the presentation of the aversive stimulus
Free Operant Avoidance
How often a behavior occurs
- Some behavior analysts use frequency to mean rate (a ratio of responses per standard unit of time); others use frequency as a synonym for count
Frequency
A procedure for implementing DRL in which reinforcement is delivered at the of the session if the total number of responses emitted during the session does not exceed a criterion limit
Full Session DRL
A change in an organism’s repertoire of MO, stimulus, and response relations, caused by reinforcement, punishment, an extinction procedure, or a recovery from punishment procedure
- This results from the pairing and unpairing of antecedent stimuli
Function Altering Effect (Relevant to Operant Relations)
Designates responses as members of the targeted response class solely in terms of their common effect on the environment
Function Based Definition
A term with two meanings in contemporary behavior analysis literature
- In its original and most fundamental usage, this denotes demonstrations of functional relations between environmental variables and behavior
- In the context of determining the purposes (functions) of problem behavior for an individual, this entails experimentally arranging antecedents and consequences representing those in the person’s natural routines so that their separate effects on problem behavior can be observed and measured
Functional Analysis
A systematic method of assessment for obtaining information about the purposes (functions) a problem behavior serves for a person; results are used to guide the design of an intervention for decreasing the problem behavior and increasing appropriate behavior
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
An antecedent intervention in which an appropriate communicative behavior is taught as a replacement behavior for problem behavior usually evoked by an establishing operation (EO); involves differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA)
Functional Communication Training (FCT)
A verbal statement summarizing the results of an experiment (or group of related experiments) that describes the occurrence of the phenomena under study as a function of the operation of one event (the dependent variable) can be produced by manipulating another event (the independent variable), and that the change in the dependent variable was unlikely the result of other factors (confounding variables); in behavior analysis expressed as b=f(x1),(x2)…where b is the behavior und x1, x2, ect…are environmental variables of which the behavior is a function
Functional Relation
Serving the same function or purpose; different topographies of behavior are functionally equivalent if they produce the same consequences
Functionally Equivalent
