Unit 3 Flashcards
The extent to which the observed values - the data produced by measuring an event - match the true state, or true values, of the event as it exists in nature.
Accuracy
The extent to which the observer convinces herself or others that the data are trustworthy and deserve interpretation.
Believability
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.
Competence
A declaration that misleads by providing false or inaccurate information.
Deceptive statement
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.
Dual relationships and conflicts of interest
Section 1.07 of the BACB guidelines, which states that analysts do not abuse those over whom they have authority.
Exploitative relationships
A request for help unrelated to treatment that may conflict with BACB Guidelines for Responsible Conduct of Behavior Analysts.
Favor
Sharing information about clients in a manner that seems innocent, but is actually a breach of confidentiality.
Gossip
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.
Integrity
A procedure for implementing DRL in which the total session is divided into equal intervals and reinforcement is provided at the end of each interval in which the number of responses during the interval is equal to or below a criterion limit.
Interval DRL
A procedure for implementing DRL in which the total session is divided into equal intervals and reinforcement is provided at the end of each interval in which the number of responses during the interval is equal to or below a criterion limit.
Non-contingent reinforcement
The rules about conduct an individual learns as a cumulative result of experiences throughout the lifespan.
Personal ethics
A form of overcorrection in which, contingent on an occurrence of the target behavior, the learner is required to repeat a correct form of the behavior, or a behavior incompatible with the problem behavior, a specified number of times; entails an educative component.
Positive practice overcorrection
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.
Professional and scientific relationships
Section 1.03 of the BACB Guidelines, which states that analysts are required to stay current in their specialty area.
Professional development
Explicit rules about conduct that govern individuals who work in a field.
Professional ethics
Section 1.01 of the BACB Guidelines, which states that analysts must base their methods of assessment on systematic, objective observations of behavior.
Reliance on scientific knowledge
The relative frequency with which operant behavior is emitted during extinction.
Resistance to extinction
A procedure in which the therapist physically intervenes as soon as the learner begins a problem behavior to prevent completion of the targeted behavior.
Response blocking
The contingent loss of reinforcers (such as a fine) that produces a decrease of the frequency of behavior. It is a form of negative punishment.
Response cost
A form of overcorrection in which, contingent on the problem behavior, the learner is required to repair the damage or return the environment to its original state and then to engage in additional behavior to bring the environment to a condition vastly better than it was in prior to the misbehavior.
Restitutional overcorrection
The process by which behaviors maintained by automatic reinforcement are placed on extinction by masking or removing the sensory consequence.
Sensory extinction
Unwelcome advances, requests for sexual favors, and any form of behavior that is sufficiently severe and pervasive and produces an abusive working environment.
Sexual harassment
Evasive tactics for avoiding the truth.
White lies
