Unit 4 Flashcards
A functional assessment method involving direct observation of the antecedents, the target behavior, and the consequences of the behavior.
ABC observation
A form of direct, continuous observation in which the observer records a descriptive, temporally sequenced account of all behavior(s) of interest and the antecedent conditions and consequences for those behaviors as those events occur in the client’s natural environment.
ABC recording
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that has terminated it in the past, as a punisher when presented following behavior, and/or as a reinforcer when withdrawn following behavior.
Aversive stimulus
The activity of living organisms, or what a person does and says.
Behavior
A form of evaluation that involves a full range of inquiry methods to identify problematic antecedent and consequent controlling variables.
Behavioral assessment
A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a punisher because of prior pairing with one or more punishers.
Conditioned punisher
A previously neutral stimulus that has been paired a number of times with an established reinforcer and consequently functions as a reinforcer itself.
Conditioned reinforcer
A formerly neutral stimulus change that elicits respondent behavior only after it has been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
Conditioned stimulus
A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.
Consequence
Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables.
Contingency
The state of an organism with respect to how much time has elapsed since it has consumed or contacted a particular type of reinforcer.
Deprivation
Direct observation of problem behavior and the antecedent and consequent events under naturally occurring conditions.
Descriptive functional behavior assessment
Behavioral evaluation involving direct observation and recording of the behavior as it occurs.
Direct assessment
Occurs when the behavior that is measured is the same as the behavior that is the focus of the investigation.
Direct measurement
An operant that occurs more frequently under some antecedent conditions than others
Discriminated operant
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.
Discriminative sitmulus
The conglomerate of real circumstances in which the organism or referred part of an organism exists.
Environment
A functional assessment method in which environmental events (antecedents and consequences of the behavior) are manipulated to demonstrate a functional relationship between the environmental events and the behavior.
Functional analysis
A systemic method of assessment for obtaining information about the purposes a problem behavior serves for a person.
Functional behavior assessment
A decrease in responsiveness to repeated presentations of a stimulus.
Habituation
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.
Motivating operation
A type of reinforcement in which the occurrence of the behavior is followed by the removal or avoidance of an aversive stimulus.
Negative reinforcement
Behavior that acts on the environment to produce an immediate consequence and, in turn, is strengthened by that consequence.
Operant behavior
A type of reinforcement in which, contingent on the behavior, a stimulus or event is presented and the probability of the behavior increases in the future
Positive reinforcement
A two-dimensional graph that shows the relative distribution of individual measures in a data set with respect to the variables depicted in the x and y-axis; data points are unconnected.
Scatterplot
A type of direct observation data collection in which the client observes and records his or her own behavior as it occurs.
Self-monitoring
The observer provides instructions or arranges for specific events or activities to occur during the observation period.
Structured observation
