PSY7709 Week 4 ABA Terminology

Question 1

A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.

Answer 1

abolishing operation

Question 2

The three-step form of reasoning that begins with a true antecedent-consequent statement and proceeds as follows: (1) if A is true, then B is true; (2) B is found to be true; (3) therefore, A is true.

Answer 2

affirmation of the consequent

Question 3

A stimulus change or condition that functions to evoke a behavior that has terminated it in the past, as a punisher when presented following behavior, and/or as a reinforcer when withdrawn following behavior.

Answer 3

aversive stimulus

Question 4

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 4

behavior-altering effect

Question 5

A complex example of stimulus control that requires stimulus generalization within a class of stimuli and discrimination between classes of stimuli.

Answer 5

concept formation

Question 6

The target behavior that is influenced in a self-management project.

Answer 6

Controlled behavior

Question 7

The use of self-management strategies in which the antecedents and consequences of a target behavior and/or alternative behaviors are modified.

Answer 7

controlling behavior

Question 8

The environmental events (antecedents and consequences) that influence the probability of a particular behavior.

Answer 8

controlling variable

Question 9

A contingency in which responding in the presence of a signal prevents the onset of a stimulus from which escape is a reinforcer.

Answer 9

discriminated avoidance

Question 10

An operant that occurs more frequently under some antecedent conditions than others.

Answer 10

discriminated operant

Question 11

Section 1.05 of the Guidelines; states that in work-related activities, behavior analysts do not engage in discrimination against individuals or groups based on age, gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, or any basis prescribed by law.

Answer 11

discrimination

Question 12

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 12

discriminative stimulus

Question 13

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

Answer 13

establishing operation

Question 14

A process in which the behavior occurs in the presence of antecedent stimuli that are similar in some way to the discriminative stimulus present when the behavior was reinforced.

Answer 14

generalization

Question 15

Changes in the behavior of people not directly treated by an intervention as a function of treatment contingencies applied to other people.

Answer 15

generalization across subjects

Question 16

Any place or stimulus situation that differs in some meaningful way from the instructional setting and in which performance of the target behavior is desired.

Answer 16

generalization setting

Question 17

A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is contingent on a response being different in some specified way (such as different topography) from the previous response (such as Lag 1) or a specified number of previous responses.

Answer 17

lag reinforcement schedule

Question 18

Continuation of the behavior change for a long period after the termination of a behavior modification program.

Answer 18

maintenance

Question 19

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 19

motivating operation

Question 20

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

Answer 20

negative reinforcer

Question 21

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 (for example, A = A).

Answer 21

reflexive conditioned motivating operation

Question 22

The conventional procedure requires one behavior and two antecedent stimulus conditions.

Answer 22

stimulus discrimination training

Question 23

When an antecedent stimulus has a history of evoking a response that has been reinforced in its presence, the same type of behavior tends to be evoked by stimuli that share similar physical properties with the controlling antecedent stimulus.

Answer 23

stimulus generalization

Question 24

A graphic depiction of the extent to which behavior that has been reinforced in the presence of a specific stimulus condition is emitted in the presence of other stimuli. The gradient shoes relative degree of stimulus generalization and stimulus control (or discrimination).

Answer 24

stimulus generalization gradient

Question 25

A stimulus that acquires its MO effectiveness by being paired with another MO and has the same value-altering and behavior-altering effects as the MO with which it was paired.

Answer 25

surrogate conditioned motivating operation

Question 26

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 26

transitive conditioned motivating operation

Question 27

The response class selected for intervention.

Answer 27

target behavior