PSY7709 Week 1 ABA Terminology

Question 1

The development of new behavior through reinforcement.

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Acquisition

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A condition of an experiment in which the independent variable is not present.

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Baseline

Question 3

The activity of living organisms, or what a person does and says.

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Behavior

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A form of evaluation that involves a full range of inquiry methods to identify problematic antecedent and consequent controlling variables.

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Behavioral Assessment

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Disruptive behaviors which represent a major obstacle to habilitation. Severe aggression, self-injurious behavior, and violent tantrums are some of the behaviors that significantly restrict the lives of those who engage in them.

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Challenging Behavior

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A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.

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Consequence

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Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables.

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Contingency

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BX that is not observable to others

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Covert BX

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The results of measurement, usually in quantifiable form.

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Data

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The conglomerate of real circumstances in which the organism or referred part of an organism exists.

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Environment

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A carefully controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomenon of interest under two or more different conditions in which only one factor at a time differs from one condition to another.

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Experiment

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

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Function-based definition

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A response behavior is followed immediately by the removal of a stimulus, or a decrease in the intensity of the stimulus, that decreases the future frequency of similar responses under similar conditions.

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Negative Punishment

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A type of reinforcement in which the occurrence of the behavior is followed by the removal or avoidance of an aversive stimulus.

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Negative Reinforcement

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A behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that decreases the future frequency of the behavior.

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Positive Punishment

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A type of reinforcement in which, contingent on the behavior, a stimulus or event is presented and the probability of the behavior increases in the future.

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Positive Reinforcement

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A statement describing a functional relation between behavior and one or more of its controlling variables with generality across organisms, species, settings, behavior, and time.

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Principle of BX

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A process in which a neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus, which elicits an unconditioned response.

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Response Conditioning

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

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Response

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A group of responses of varying typography, all of which produce the same effect on the environment.

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Response class

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An environmental event that can be detected by one of the senses.

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Stimulus

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A group of stimuli that all have the same functional effect on a particular behavior. For example, each stimulus in a stimulus class may function as a discriminative stimulus for a particular behavior.

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Stimulus Class

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Refers to the fact that every instance of behavior occurs during some amount of time.

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Temporal Extent

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Refers to the fact that every instance of behavior occurs at a certain point in time with respect to other events.

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Temporal Locas

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The physical form or shape of behavior.

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Topography

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Defines instances of the targeted response class by the shape or form of the behavior.

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Topography based-deffinition