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Question 1

Fading

Answer 1

A procedure for transferring stimulus control in which features of an antecedent stimulus controlling a behavior are gradually changed to a new stimulus while maintaining the current behavior; can be faded in or out

Question 2

Feature stimulus class

Answer 2

Stimuli that share common physical forms or structures or common relative relationships

Question 3

Fixed Interval (FI)

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Fixed Interval DRO (FI-DRO)

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Fixed-momentary DRO (FM-DRO)

Answer 5

A DRO procedure in which reinforcement is available at specific moments of time, which are separated by a fixed amount of time, and delivered contingent on the problem behavior not occurring at those moments

Question 6

Fixed Ratio (FR)

Answer 6

A schedule of reinforcement requiring a fixed number of responses for reinforcement

Question 7

Fixed-time schedule (FT)

Answer 7

A schedule of reinforcement for the delivery of noncontingent stimuli in which a time interval remains the same from one delivery to the next

Question 8

Formal Similarity

Answer 8

A situation that occurs when the controlling antecedent stimulus and the response or response product (a) share the same sense mode and (b) physically resembled each other. The verbal relations with formal similarity are echoic, copying text, and imitation as it relates to sign language.

Question 9

Forward Chaining

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

Free Operant

Answer 10

Any operant behavior that results in minimal displacement of the participant in time and space. Examples include: the number of words read during a 1 min counting period, number of hand slaps per 6 seconds, and number of letter strokes written in 3 min

Question 11

Free-operant Avoidance

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Frequency

Answer 12

A ratio of count per observation time; often expressed as count per standard unit of time and calculated by dividing the number of responses recorded by the number of standard units of time in which observations were conducted

Question 13

Full-session DRL

Answer 13

A procedure for implementing DRL in which reinforcement is delivered at the end of the session if the total number of responses emitted during the session does not exceed the criterion limit

Question 14

Function-altering effect

Answer 14

A relatively permanent change in an organism’s repertoire of MO, stimulus, and response relations, caused by reinforcement, punishment, and extinction procedure.

Question 15

Function-based definition

Answer 15

Designates responses as members of the targeted response class solely in terms of their common effect on the environment

Question 16

Functional Analysis

Answer 16

An analysis of the purposes (functions) of problem-behavior, wherein antecedents and consequences representing those in the person’s natural routines are arranged within an experimental design so that their separate effects on problem behavior can be observed and measured; typically consists of four conditions: three test conditions (attention, escape, alone) and a control condition in which behavior is expected to be low because reinforcement is freely available and no demands are placed on the person

Question 17

Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)

Answer 17

A systematic method of assessment for obtaining information about the purposes (functions) a problem behavior serves for a person

Question 18

Functional Communication Training (FCT)

Answer 18

An antecedent intervention in which an appropriate communicative behavior is taught as a replacement behavior from problem behavior usually evoked by an establishing operation (EO); involves DR or DRA

Question 19

Functional Relation

Answer 19

A verbal statement summarizing the results of an experiment that describes the occurrence of the phenomena under study as a function of the operation of one or more specified and controlled variables in the experiment in which a specific change in one event can be produced by manipulating another event and that the change in the dependent variable was unlikely the result of other factors

Question 20

Functionally equivalent

Answer 20

Serving the same function or purpose; different topographies of behavior are functionally equivalent if they produce the same consequences