POB ch.2

Question 1

baseline

Answer 1

the phase of an experiment or intervention where the behavior is measured in the absence of an intervention.

Question 2

behavioral contingency

Answer 2

The occasion for a response, the response, and the outcome of the response

Question 3

medical model myth

Answer 3

an erroneous view of human behavior that behavior is always a mere symptom of an underlying psychological condition.

Question 4

General Rule: the don’t say rule

Answer 4

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 5

reinforcement contingency

Answer 5

he response-contingent presentation of a reinforcer resulting in an increased frequency of that response.

Question 6

reinforce behavior

Answer 6

Reinforce behavior, not people.

Question 7

the error of reification

Answer 7

To call a behavior or process a thing.