Unit 10

Question 1

A behavior change strategy that manipulates contingency-independent antecedent stimuli.

Answer 1

Antecedent intervention

Question 2

A metaphor to describe a rate of responding and its resistance to change following an alteration in reinforcement conditions.

Answer 2

Behavioral momentum

Question 3

Section 1.02 of the BACB Guidelines, which states that analysts must only provide services within the boundaries of their education, training, supervised experience, or appropriate professional experience.

Answer 3

Competence

Question 4

A procedure for decreasing problem behavior in which reinforcement is delivered for a behavior that serves as a desirable alternative to the behavior targeted for reduction and is withheld following instances of the problem behavior.

Answer 4

Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior

Question 5

A procedure for decreasing problem behavior in which reinforcement is delivered for a behavior that is topographically incompatible with the behavior targeted for reduction and withheld following instances of the problem behavior.

Answer 5

Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior

Question 6

A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement (a) follows each occurrence of the target behavior that is separated from the previous response by a minimum interresponse time (IRT), or (b) is contingent on the number of responses within a period of time not exceeding a predetermined criterion.

Answer 6

Differential reinforcement of low rates

Question 7

A procedure for decreasing problem behavior in which reinforcement is contingent on the absence of the problem behavior during or at specific times.

Answer 7

Differential reinforcement of other behavior

Question 8

Section 1.06 of the BACB Guidelines, which states that BACB analysts must be sensitive to the potential harmful effects of other contacts on their work and on those persons with whom they deal.

Answer 8

Dual relationships and conflicts of interest

Question 9

Behaviors maintained with negative reinforcement are placed on escape extinction when those behaviors are not followed by termination of the aversive stimulus; emitting the target behavior does not enable the person to escape the aversive situation.

Answer 9

Escape extinction

Question 10

Section 1.07 of the BACB guidelines, which states that analysts do not abuse those over whom they have authority.

Answer 10

Exploitative relationships

Question 11

An increase in the frequency of responding when an extinction procedure is initially implemented

Answer 11

Extinction burst

Question 12

A DRO procedure in which reinforcement is available at the end of intervals of fixed duration and delivered contingent on the absence of the problem behavior during each interval.

Answer 12

Fixed-interval DRO

Question 13

A DRO procedure in which reinforcement is available at specific moments of time, which are separated by a fixed amount of time, and delivered contingent on the problem behavior not occurring at those moments.

Answer 13

Fixed-momentary DRO

Question 14

A schedule for the delivery of non-contingent stimuli in which a time interval remains the same from one delivery to the next.

Answer 14

Fixed-time schedule

Question 15

A procedure for implementing DRL in which reinforcement is delivered at the end of the session if the total number of responses emitted during the session does not exceed a criterion limit.

Answer 15

Full-session DRL

Question 16

An antecedent intervention in which an appropriate communicative behavior is taught as a replacement behavior for problem behavior usually evoked by an establishing operation.

Answer 16

Functional communication training

Question 17

An antecedent intervention in which two to five easy tasks with a known history of learner compliance (the high-p requests) are presented in quick succession immediately before requesting the target task, the low-p request.

Answer 17

High-probability request sequence

Question 18

Section 1.04 of the BACB Guidelines, which states that analysts must be truthful and honest, and must conform to the legal and moral codes of the social and professional community of which they are a member.

Answer 18

Integrity

Question 19

Section 1.05 of the BACB Guidelines; analysts must provide behavioral diagnostic, therapeutic, teaching, research, supervisory, consultative, or other behavior analytic services only in the context of a defined role.

Answer 19

Professional and scientific relationships

Question 20

Section 1.03 of the BACB Guidelines, which states that analysts are required to stay current in their specialty area.

Answer 20

Professional development

Question 21

The sequence of new response classes that emerge during the shaping process as the result of differential reinforcement. Each successive response class is closer in form to the terminal behavior than the response class it replaces.

Answer 21

Successive approximation

Question 22

The process of breaking a complex skill or series of behaviors into smaller, teachable units; this term also refers to the results of this process.

Answer 22

Task analysis

Question 23

The end product of shaping.

Answer 23

Terminal behavior

Question 24

A variation of forward chaining in which the learner receives training on each behavior in the chain during each session.

Answer 24

Total-task chaining