Mentoring 1 Terms Flashcards

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Rationale for DA

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  1. Analyze/determine variables in environment that serve as antecedents/consequences for behavior.
  2. ID target behavior of social significance for an individual
  3. Natural setting, no risk (just observation)
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Operational Definition

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Identifies one or more specific observable conditions or events and then tells the researcher specifically how to measure that event.

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Establishing Operations

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A motivating operation that establishes (increases) the effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event as a reinforcer

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Behavioral Contingency

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A response that occurs in the presence or absence of some stimulus and is reinforced when it occurs

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Informed Consent

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When the potential recipient of services/participation in a study gives explicit permission before any assessment or tx is provided. Full disclosure of effects/side effects must be provided. Must: demonstrate capacity, volunteer, have adequate knowledge of all salient aspects of tx

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Confidentiality

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Describes a situation of trust where any information regarding a person receiving/have received services may not be discussed w/or otherwise made available to another person or group, unless that person has provided explicit authorization for release of such information

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Lawfulness of Behavior

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Certain principles of behavior have been proven to work time and time again in both the lab and applied settings (Ex. R+, P+, extinction, stimulus control)

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Environmental Explanation

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An approach to the study of behavior that assumes the environment shapes the behavior through A-C relationships and principles of behavior.

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Methods for DA

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Interviews, Checklists, Rating Scales, Standardized Tests, & Direct Observation

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Measurable Dimensions

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Repeatability (Count/Rate/Frequency/Celeration)
Temporal Extend (Duration)
Temporal Locus (Response Latency/IRT)
Derivative (%/Trials-2-Criterion)
Definitional (Topography/Magnitude)
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Continuous Measurement

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Measurement of all the instances of the response classes of interest are detected during the observation period

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Time Sampling

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A measurement of the presence or absence of behavior w/in specific time intervals

  • Continuous/High Rates of behavior
  • Whole/Partial/Momentary/PLAYCHECK
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Use of TA

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Break a larger more complex behavior into smaller simpler teachable units (Forward Chaining/ Backward Chaining/ Total Task Chaining)

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7 Dimensions

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Applied, Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Effective, Generality, Conceptually Systematic

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Applied

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Used to improve socially significant behaviors

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Behavioral

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Must be the behavior of concern & measurable

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Analytic

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Demonstrated a functional relation bw the IV & DV

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Technological

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Operative procedures are identified & described so precisely that enables replication

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Effective

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Improved behavior to a practical degree

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Generality

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Lasts over time, appears in other environments, and/or spreads to other behaviors not directly related to the intervention

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Conceptually Systematic

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Procedures for changing behavior & any interpretations of how/why those procedures were effective should be described in terms of the relevant principle(s) from which they were derived

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Parsimony

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Keep it simple!

Rule out simple/logical explanations before considering more complex/abstract ones

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Determinism

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The universe is a lawful and orderly place- Everything happens for a reason

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Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)

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A natural science approach founded by BF Skinner that enabled clear demonstrations of orderly+reliable functional relations b/w behavior and various env. events in a lab setting

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ABA

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A science in which the tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to socially significant behaviors and experimentation is used to ID variables responsible for the improvement in behavior

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Response

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A single instance or occurrence of a specific class or type of behavior

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Response Class

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A group of responses of varying topographies all of which produce the same effect on the environment

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Stimulus

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An energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells

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Stimulus Class

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A group of stimuli that share specified common elements along formal, termporal and/or functional elements

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Positive Reinforcement

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When a behavior is immediately followed by the presentation of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of that behavior in similar conditions

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Negative Reinforcement

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The occurrence of a response produces the removal, termination, reduction or postponement of a stimulus, which leads to an increase in the future frequency of the behavior

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Conditioned Reinforcer

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A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a reinforcer bc of prior pairings with 1+ other R+

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Unconditioned Reinforcer

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A stimulus change that increases the frequency of any behavior that immediately precedes it irrespective of the learner’s history w/the stimulus

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Positive Punishment

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When a behavior is immediately followed by the presentation of a stimulus that decreases the future frequency of that behavior in similar conditions

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Negative Punishment

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The termination of an already present stimulus immediately following a behavior that results in a decrease in the future frequency of the behavior

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Unconditioned Punisher

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Stimulus change that can decrease the frequency of any behavior that immediately precedes it, irrespective of the organisms learning history with that stimulus

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Conditioned Punisher

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A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a punisher because of prior pairings with one or more other punishers

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Stimulus Control

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A situation in which the frequency, latency, duration or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus

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Motivating Operations

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An environmental variable that alters (inc/dec) the R+ or P+ effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event & alters (inc/dec) the current frequency of all behavior that has been R+ or P+ by that stimulus, object, or event

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Establishing Operations

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A motivating operation that establishes (increases) the effectiveness of some stimulus, object or even as a reinforcer

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Functional Relation

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A verbal statement summarizing the results of an experiment

*Explains the effects of the IV on the DV

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Principles of Behavior

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  • R+, P+, extinction, stimulus control
  • Describes a functional relation bw 1+ of its controlling variables
  • Generalizes across organisms, species, settings and behaviors
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Behavior Change Tactics

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Technologically consistent method for changing behavior derived from 1+ principles of behavior; possesses sufficient generality to warrant codification and dissemination