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Question 1

A measure produced by an observation and measurement system
- This serves as the data that the researcher and others will interpret to form conclusions about an investigation

Answer 1

Observed Value

Question 2

Any unintended change in the way an observer uses a measurement system over the course of an investigation that results in measurement error; often entails a shift in the observer’s interpretation of the original definitions of the target behavior subsequent to being trained

Answer 2

Observer Drift

Question 3

Influence on the data reported by an observer that results from the observer’s awareness that others are evaluating the data

Answer 3

Observer Reactivity

Question 4

The history of the development of an individual organism during its lifetime

Answer 4

Ontogeny

Question 5

Behavior that is selected, maintained, and brought under stimulus control as a function of its consequences; each person’s repertoire of operant behavior is a product of his history of interactions with the environment (ontogeny)

Answer 5

Operant Behavior

Question 6

The basic process by which operant learning occurs; consequences (stimulus changes immediately following responses) result in an increased (reinforcement) or decreased (punishment) frequency of the same type of behavior under similar motivational and environmental conditions in the future

Answer 6

Operant Conditioning

Question 7

The rate of response over a given time period

Answer 7

Overall Response Rate

Question 8

A behavior change tactic based on positive punishment in which, contingent on the problem behavior, the learner is required to engage in effortful behavior directly or logically related to fixing the damage caused by the behavior
- Forms of overcorrection are restitution overcorrection and positive practice overcorrection

Answer 8

Overcorrection

Question 9

A condition in which the range of discriminative stimuli, or stimulus features controlling behavior, is extremely limited; often interferes with learning

Answer 9

Overselective Stimulus Control

Question 10

Occurs when the most salient component of a compound stimulus arrangement controls responding and interferes with the acquisition of stimulus control by the more relevant stimulus

Answer 10

Overshadowing