PSY7709 Week 3 ABA Terminology

Question 1

An alteration in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is altered in effectiveness by the same motivating operation.

Answer 1

Behavior Altering Affect

Question 2

A motivating operation whose value-altering effect depends on a learning history.

Answer 2

Conditioned Motivating Operation

Question 3

A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a negative reinforcer because of prior pairing with one or more negative reinforcers.

Answer 3

Conditioned Negative Reinfocer

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Conditioned Punisher

Question 5

A previously neutral stimulus that has been paired a number of times with an established reinforcer and consequently functions as a reinforcer itself.

Answer 5

Conditioned Reinforcer

Question 6

A formerly neutral stimulus change that elicits respondent behavior only after it has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

Answer 6

Conditioned Stimulus

Question 7

A stimulus in the presence of which responses of some type have been reinforced and in the absence of which the same type of responses have occurred and not been reinforced.

Answer 7

Discriminative Stimulus

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Establishing Operation

Question 9

An increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation.

Answer 9

Evocative Effect

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Function-altering Effect

Question 11

An environmental variable that (a) alters (increases or decreases) the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and (b) alters (increases or decreases) the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus, object, or event.

Answer 11

Motivating Operation

Question 12

Part of the habit reversal procedure used to increase the likelihood that the client will use the competing response outside the treatment sessions to control the habit.

Answer 12

Motivation Strategy

Question 13

The reinforcement contingency for the behavior of a particular person in the normal course of the person’s life.

Answer 13

Natural Contingencies of Reinforcement

Question 14

An observation setting that is part of the client’s normal daily routine.

Answer 14

Natural Setting

Question 15

A stimulus whose termination or reduction in intensity functions as reinforcement.

Answer 15

Negative Reinforcer

Question 16

A neutral change that does not elicit respondent behavior.

Answer 16

Neutral Stimulus

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT true about stimulus equivalence?

Answer 17

the stimuli are followed by only reinforcement

Question 18

A type of stimulus-to-stimulus relation in which the learner, without any prior training or reinforcement for doing so, selects a comparison stimulus that is the same as the sample stimulus (e.g., A=A).

Answer 18

reflexivity

Question 19

The process in which the unconditioned stimulus and conditioned stimulus are presented at the same time in respondent conditioning trials.

Answer 19

simultaneous conditioning

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Stimulus control

Question 21

A stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has not produced reinforcement in the past.

Answer 21

Stimulus delta

Question 22

A procedure in which two stimuli are presented at the same time, usually repeatedly for a number of trials, which often results in one stimulus acquiring the function of the other stimulus.

Answer 22

stimulus-stimulus pairing

Question 23

An environmental variable that, as a result of a learning history, establishes (or abolishes) the reinforcing effectiveness of another stimulus and evokes (or abates) the behavior that has been reinforced by that other stimulus.

Answer 23

transitive conditioned motivating operation

Question 24

A stimulus that functions as a negative reinforcer as a result of the evolutionary development of the species.

Answer 24

unconditioned negative reinforcer

Question 25

A stimulus change that decreases the frequency of any behavior that immediately precedes it, irrespective of the organism’s learning history with the stimulus.

Answer 25

Unconditioned Punisher

Question 26

A stimulus change that increases the frequency of any behavior that immediately precedes it, irrespective of the organism’s learning history with the stimulus.

Answer 26

unconditioned reinforcer

Question 27

An alteration in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event as a result of a motivating operation.

Answer 27

value-altering effect