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Antecedent

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An environmental condition or stimulus change that exists or occurs prior to the behavior.

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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

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The process of analyzing and improving socially significant behaviors through the scientific method

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Automatic Reinforcement

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Reinforcement that occurs in the absence of social consequences.

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Automatic Punishment

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Punishment that occurs in the absence of social consequences

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Behavioral Functions

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A functional relation between a stimulus and response. Stimulus change can have an immediate but temporary effect or a delayed but permanent effect on behavior frequency.

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Behavior

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The portion of an organism’s interaction with the environment that involves some movement of the organism.

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Behavior Altering Effect

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An increase or decrease in behavior due to the reinforcement history.

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Behavioral Assessment

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A form of assessment that includes indirect and direct procedures such as interviews, checklists, and tests to identify and define a behavior targeted for change.

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Behavioral Cusp

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A behavior that accesses quick and dramatic consequences that result in long-lasting changes because it exposes the individual to new reinforcers, environments, contingencies, responses, and stimulus controls

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Radical Behaviorism

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The study of all human behavior including public and private events.

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Calibration

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A comparison of data produced from a measurement system to a true value or known standard. If errors are found, this information is used to correct the measurement system.

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Celeration

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The change in the rate of responding over time.

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Concurrent Chains (Schedule) Design

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An experimental design in which participants have two or more response options resulting in different treatment procedures.

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Conditioned Punisher

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A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a punisher due to prior pairing with other punishers.

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Conditioned Reflex

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A learned stimulus-response functional relation with an antecedent stimulus and the response it elicits.

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Conditioned Reinforcer

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A stimulus change that functions as a reinforcer due to prior pairing with other
reinforcers.

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Conditioned Stimulus

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A formerly neutral stimulus (NS) is paired with an unconditioned stimulus (US) or another conditioned stimulus (CS) which now elicits a conditioned reflex (CR).

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Consequence

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A stimulus change that follows a behavior.

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Contingency

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Dependent and temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling
variables.

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Contingency-Shaped Behavior

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Behavior that is shaped through direct experience with contingencies.

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Continuous Measurement

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Measurement procedures that capture every occurrence of a behavior.

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Continuous Schedule of Reinforcement

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A fixed ratio schedule presents a reinforcer after each occurrence of behavior. This is often referred to as an FR1 schedule.

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Determinism

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The assumption is that the universe is lawful and orderly and that phenomena do not occur accidentally.

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Direct Measurment

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The behavior that is measured is the same as the behavior that is the focus of the investigation.

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Discrete Trial
Any operant whose response rate is controlled by a given opportunity to emit the response.
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Discriminated Operant
An operant that occurs more frequently under certain antecedents
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Discriminative Stimulus
A stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has been reinforced and in the absence of which that behavior has not been reinforced.
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Empiricism
The objective observation of a phenomenon.
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Environment
The surroundings and circumstances in which an individual exists change from instance to instance, including setting, antecedents, and consequences.
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Event Recording
Measurement procedure for determining how many times a behavior occurs.
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Explanatory Fiction
A fictitious or hypothetical variable that often takes the form of another name for the observed phenomenon it claims to explain and contributes nothing to a functional account or understanding of the phenomenon.
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Fixed Interval
This schedule of reinforcement requires a specified period of time to elapse before reinforcement is available without specification of how many responses be made.
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Fixed Ratio
Behavior is reinforced when it has occurred a specified number of times. This schedule of reinforcement is utilized most often when establishing a new behavior.
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Fixed Schedule
Indicates that a reinforcer is delivered after a precise amount of time or number of responses with the time/number not changing across reinforcement opportunities.
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Formal dimension of stimuli
Size, color, intensity, weight, and spatial position relative to other objects.
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Free Operant
Any operant behavior that results in minimal displacement of the participant in time and space. The operant behavior can be emitted at nearly any time, is discrete, requires minimal time for completion, and can produce a wide range of response rates.
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Functional Response Class
A group of responses that share the same function.
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Generalized Punisher
A conditioned punisher has been associated with a number of other punishers. Example: The word "no"
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Generalized Reinforcer
A conditioned reinforcer which has been associated with a number of other reinforcers. Example: Money
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Interobserver Agreement (IOA)
Represents the extent to which two observers report the same values after mea￾suring the same events.
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Limited Hold
A response must occur within a specified amount of time after the end of the interval, or the interval is reset. May be a component of a variable interval (VI) or fixed interval (FI) schedule.
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Mentalism
An approach to understanding behavior that assumes that a mental, or "inner" dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension.
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Methodological Behaviorism
A philosophical position that views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science.
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Negative Punishment
A stimulus is REMOVED from the environment following a behavior that results in a DECREASE in future occurrences of that behavior.
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Negative Reinforcement
A stimulus is REMOVED from the environment following a behavior that results in an INCREASE in future occurrences of that behavior.
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Non-contingent Reinforcement (NCR)
Reinforcement is delivered on a schedule independent of behavior.
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Operant Behavior
Behavior that is selected, maintained and brought under stimulus control as a function of its consequences.
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Operant Conditioning
The process by which operant learning occurs; consequences result in an increased or decreased frequency of the same type of behavior under similar future conditions.
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Parsimony
The process of ruling out the simplest explanation first.
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Philosophic Doubt
An attitude that the validity and truthfulness of scientific findings should be continually questioned.
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Positive Punishment
A stimulus ADDED to the environment following a behavior that results in a DECREASE in future occurrences of that behavior.
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Positive Reinforcement
A stimulus ADDED to the environment following a behavior that results in an INCREASE in future occurrences of that behavior.
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Pragmatism
A philosophical position asserts that the truth value of a statement is determined by how well it promotes effective action.
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Ratio Schedules
Schedules in which consequences are delivered after a specified number of responses.
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Response Class
A group of responses with varying topography that all have the same effect on the environment.
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Stimulus Delta
A stimulus that signals the non-availability of reinforcement.
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Topography
The physical form or shape of behavior (i.e. what it looks like).
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Variable Interval
This schedule of reinforcement requires a varying amount of time to elapse before reinforcement is provided.
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Variable Ratio
This schedule of reinforcement requires a varying number of responses before reinforcement is provided. It promotes maintenance and generalization, as well as steady and high rates of response.
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Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
A natural science approach to the study of behavior as a subject matter with an emphasis on describing functional relations between behavior and controlling variables in the environment.

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