Unit 4 Flashcards
The recommended minimum ratio of positive reinforcement to punishment.
4:1 rule
A research design consisting of a baseline and a treatment phase.
A-B design
A quality that ABA professionals should have, this is acceptance of the responsibility to make sure that proposed treatments are proper, justified, and worthy of consideration. It is also acceptance of blame when treatments fail, and making corrections to satisfy the consumer and other related parties.
Accountability
A stimulus or event that precedes the target behavior.
Antecedent
The activity of living organisms, or what a person does and says.
Behavior
A procedure consisting of instructions, modeling, behavioral rehearsal, and feedback that is used to teach new behaviors or skills.
Behavior skills training
A way of demonstrating how components of a system interact and how each person’s role contributes to the functioning of the system.
Behavioral systems analysis
The analysis and modification of work environments to reduce injuries and promote safe behavior for workers.
Behavior-based safety
A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.
Consequence
A collaboration or discussion with a professional in another evidence-based field compatible with behavior analysis.
Consultation
The results of measurement, usually in quantifiable form.
Data
The extra effort above what is required in a given position.
Discretionary effort
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with the response.
Echoic
The process by which, when a previously reinforced behavior is no longer followed by the reinforcing consequences, the frequency of the behavior decreases in the future.
Extinction
A visual representation of the occurrence of behavior over time.
Graph
An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus and that does not have point-to-point correspondence with that verbal stimulus.
Intraverbal
An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by an MO and followed by specific reinforcement.
Mand
A type of prompt in which the trainer demonstrates the target behavior for the learner.
Modeling prompt
A response behavior is followed immediately by the removal of a stimulus, or a decrease in the intensity of the stimulus, that decreases the future frequency of similar responses under similar conditions.
Negative punishment
A type of reinforcement in which the occurrence of the behavior is followed by the removal or avoidance of an aversive stimulus.
Negative reinforcement
A sub-discipline of ABA that is guided by a single theory of human behavior and has historically emphasized identification and modification of the environmental variables that affect directly observable or verifiable employee performance.
Organizational behavior management
A method of appraising an employee’s job performance.
Performance diagnostics
Methods based on the principles of behavior analysis that are used to improve employee performance.
Performance management
Pay that is based on one’s performance in the workplace.
Performance-based pay
A process for outlining the outcomes desired and the behaviors needed to achieve those outcomes.
Pinpointing
A procedure in which a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that decreases the future frequency of the behavior.
Positive punishment
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 type of positive reinforcement in which the opportunity to engage in a high-probability behavior is made contingent on the occurrence of a low-probability behavior to increase the low-probability behavior.
Premack principle
Practice of the behavior in a role-play situation after instructions and modeling, followed by feedback of the performance.
Rehearsal
An elementary verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement.
Tact
