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SAFMEDS Foundations Flashcards

ABA Foundations vocabulary words 60 terms in 60 seconds to promote fluency

1
Q

A stimulus that precedes or
accompanies a behavior and may
exert discriminative control over
that behavior

A

Antecedent

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2
Q

It is a system designed to analyze
and change behavior in a precisely
measurable and accountable
manner.

A

ABA

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3
Q 
Repeated measures of the strength
or level (e.g., frequency, intensity,
rate, duration, or latency) of
behavior prior to the introduction of
an experimental variable.
A

Baseline

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4
Q

Any living organism’s directly
measurable actions or physical
functions, including both saying and
doing.

A

Behavior

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5
Q

The specified dependencies or
relations between behavior and its
antecedents and consequences.

A

Contingencies

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6
Q 
Doctrine that acts of will,
occurrences in nature, or social or
psychological phenomena are
causally determined by preceding
events or natural laws.
A

Determinism

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7
Q 
Consists of reinforcing particular
behavior(s) of a given class (or form,
pattern or topography) while placing
those same behaviors on extinction
and/or punishing them when they
fail to match performance standards
or when they occur under
inappropriate stimulus conditions.
A

Differential reinforcement

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8
Q

A response that occurs only when

the particular SD is present.

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Discriminated operant

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9
Q 
Stimuli that control behavior
differentially, after having been
present reliably when a response
either has been reinforced, placed
on extinction, or punished.
A

Discriminative stimuli (SD)

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10
Q

An antecedent stimulus in the
presence of which a given response
is not likely to be reinforced.

A

S-delta

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11
Q 
In respondent conditioning of
reflexes, a verb used to denote the
effect of an antecedent conditioned
or unconditioned stimulus on a
conditioned or unconditioned
response.
A

Elicit

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Q

A verb that describes the occurrence

of an operant behavior.

A

Emit

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13
Q

The context in which the behavior

occurs.

A

Environment

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14
Q

Practices, programs, or procedures
scientifically demonstrated to be
effective with like populations.

A

Evidence-based practices

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15
Q 
A theory that all forms of life
naturally and continually evolve as a
result of the interaction between
function and the survival value of
the function.
A

Selectionism

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16
Q

A scientific method designed to
discover the functional relation
between behavior and the variables
that control it.

A

Experimental analysis of

behavior

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17
Q 
The diminished rate (or eventual
total absence) of a behavior,
resulting from the discontinuation of
reinforcement contingent on a
particular target behavior.
A

Extinction

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18
Q

A predictable, temporary increase in
the rate, variability, and intensity of
an array of (presumably previously
reinforced) responses.

A

Extinction burst

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19
Q 
Includes the following elements:
motivating or establishing
operations, antecedent stimuli
(discriminative stimuli), responses
(behaviors), and consequences.
A

Four term contingency

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20
Q

A lawful relation between values of

two variables.

A

Functional relation

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21
Q 
The spread of effects to other
classes of behavior, when one class
of behavior is modified by
reinforcement, extinction, and so on.
The shift in the form or topography
of a behavior.
A

Response generalization

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22
Q 
The occurrences of the response in
the presence of antecedent stimuli
sharing certain characteristics with
those previously correlated with
reinforcement.
A

Stimulus generalization

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23
Q 
Effective for a wide range of
behaviors as a result of having been
paired with a variety of previously
established reinforcers (primary and
conditioned).
A

Generalized reinforcer

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24
Q

A schedule of reinforcement in
which some, but not all, of the
occurrences of a response are
reinforced.

A

Intermittent

reinforcement

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25
Q 
A schedule according to which
reinforcers are presented contingent
on the first response emitted
following an interval of a constant
time period.
A

Fixed interval schedule

26
Q 
A schedule according to which
reinforcers are presented contingent
on the first response emitted
following the completion of intervals
averaging a specific time period.
A

Variable interval schedule

27
Q

Any enduring change in behavior
produced as a function of the
interaction between the behavior
and the environment.

A

Learning

28
Q 
A restriction placed on an interval
schedule requiring that to be eligible
for reinforcement, the primed
response (the first response
following termination of the required
interval) must occur within a specific
span of time following that interval.
A

Limited hold

29
Q 
A description of a phenomenon
according to which organisms
distribute their responses according
to the proportion of payoff during
choice situations.
A

Matching Law

30
Q 
Antecedent events that (a) change
the value of the consequence, or, (b)
along with the immediate
discriminative stimulus (SD), may
alter the relative frequency or
probability of behavior.
A

Motivating operation

31
Q

A schedule of reinforcement
requiring a specific number of
responses be emitted for
reinforcement.

A

Fixed ratio schedule

32
Q 
The reinforcer is presented on a
fixed-time (FT) or variable-time (VT)
schedule of reinforcement,
regardless of the client’s actions at
the time.
A

Noncontingent

reinforcement

33
Q 
The strength (e.g., rate or duration)
of behavior prior to any known or
designed conditioning.
A

Operant level

34
Q

A reductive procedure composed of
a relevant and educative form of
contingent exertion.

A

Overcorrection

35
Q

Requires the individual to restore
the environment to a state
substantially improved from that
which existed prior to the act.

A

Restitution

36
Q

Requires the individual repeatedly to
practice a positive alternative
behavior.

A

Positive practice

37
Q

The simplest theory that fits the
facts of a problem is the one that
should be evaluated before moving
to a more complex explanation

A

Parsimony

38
Q

The extent to which a learner
continues to perform the target
behavior after a portion or all of the
intervention has been removed.

A

Maintenance

39
Q 
A stimulus, such as an object or
event, that follows or is presented as
a consequence of a response and
results in the rate of that response
increasing or maintaining.
A

Positive reinforcer

40
Q

Statement that contingent access to
higher-probability behavior
(“preferred activities”) reinforces
lower-probability behavior.

A

Premack Principle

41
Q

A stimulus that, when presented
immediately following a response,
effects a reduction in the rate of the
response.

A

Punisher

42
Q

An event occurring contingent on a
response that decreases the future
probability of the response.

A

Punishment

43
Q

A process in which a behavior is
strengthened as a function of an
event that occurs as a consequence
of, or contingent on, the response.

A

Reinforcement

44
Q

A specific behavioral consequence,
the addition of which functions, to
increase or maintain the rate of a
behavior.

A

Reinforcer

45
Q

To repeat or duplicate an
experimental procedure, usually to
demonstrate its reliability by
reproducing the results.

A

Replication

46
Q

The composite set of behaviors
controlled by a particular reinforcing
or punishing event.

A

Response class

47
Q 
A reductive procedure in which a
specified quantity of available
reinforcers are contingently
withdrawn following the response,
resulting in a decrease in the rate of
the response.
A

Response cost

48
Q

The recurrence of previously
reinforced behavior when a target,
or dominant, behavior is placed on
extinction.

A

Resurgence

49
Q

The rule followed by the
environment that determines which
among the many occurrences of a
response will be reinforced.

A

Schedule of reinforcement

50
Q

A specific or combination of physical
objects or events, (stimuli), which
affect the behavior of an individual.

A

Stimulus

51
Q

A group of antecedent stimuli that
have a common effect on an
operant class.

A

Stimulus class

52
Q 
The process that enables an
antecedent to gain control over one
or more particular behaviors as a
function of the individual’s
experience of responseconsequence correlation in the
presence of that antecedent.
A

Stimulus control

53
Q

A philosophic position asserting that
the truth value of a statement is
determined by how well it promoted
effective action

A

Pragmatism

54
Q 
A procedure in which access to
varied sources of reinforcement is
removed or reduced for a particular
time period contingent on an
unwanted response, for the purpose
or reducing the rate of the response.
A

Time out

55
Q

Behavior under the control of as
rules and instructions, rather than
behavior shaped by reinforcing or
aversive consequences.

A

Rule governed behavior

56
Q

A statement of the anticipated
outcome of a presently unknown or
future measurement.

A

Prediction

57
Q 
A form of behaviorism that attempts
to understand all human behavior,
including private events such as
thoughts & feelings in terms of
controlling variables in the history of
the person and species.
A

Radical behaviorism

58
Q

The objective observation of the

phenomena of interest.

A

Empiricism

59
Q

A schedule of reinforcement
requiring a varying number of
responses for reinforcement.

A

Variable ratio schedule

60
Q

An attitude that the truthfulness and
validity of all scientific theory should
be continually questioned.

A

Philosophic doubt

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