Unit 4

Question 1

The recommended minimum ratio of positive reinforcement to punishment.

Answer 1

4:1 rule

Question 2

A research design consisting of a baseline and a treatment phase.

Answer 2

A-B design

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

Accountability

Question 4

A stimulus or event that precedes the target behavior.

Answer 4

Antecedent

Question 5

The activity of living organisms, or what a person does and says.

Answer 5

Behavior

Question 6

A procedure consisting of instructions, modeling, behavioral rehearsal, and feedback that is used to teach new behaviors or skills.

Answer 6

Behavior skills training

Question 7

A way of demonstrating how components of a system interact and how each person’s role contributes to the functioning of the system.

Answer 7

Behavioral systems analysis

Question 8

The analysis and modification of work environments to reduce injuries and promote safe behavior for workers.

Answer 8

Behavior-based safety

Question 9

A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.

Answer 9

Consequence

Question 10

A collaboration or discussion with a professional in another evidence-based field compatible with behavior analysis.

Answer 10

Consultation

Question 11

The results of measurement, usually in quantifiable form.

Answer 11

Data

Question 12

The extra effort above what is required in a given position.

Answer 12

Discretionary effort

Question 13

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.

Answer 13

Echoic

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

Extinction

Question 15

A visual representation of the occurrence of behavior over time.

Answer 15

Graph

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Intraverbal

Question 17

An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by an MO and followed by specific reinforcement.

Answer 17

Mand

Question 18

A type of prompt in which the trainer demonstrates the target behavior for the learner.

Answer 18

Modeling prompt

Question 19

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.

Answer 19

Negative punishment

Question 20

A type of reinforcement in which the occurrence of the behavior is followed by the removal or avoidance of an aversive stimulus.

Answer 20

Negative reinforcement

Question 21

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.

Answer 21

Organizational behavior management

Question 22

A method of appraising an employee’s job performance.

Answer 22

Performance diagnostics

Question 23

Methods based on the principles of behavior analysis that are used to improve employee performance.

Answer 23

Performance management

Question 24

Pay that is based on one’s performance in the workplace.

Answer 24

Performance-based pay

Question 25

A process for outlining the outcomes desired and the behaviors needed to achieve those outcomes.

Answer 25

Pinpointing

Question 26

A procedure in which a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that decreases the future frequency of the behavior.

Answer 26

Positive punishment

Question 27

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.

Answer 27

Positive reinforcement

Question 28

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.

Answer 28

Premack principle

Question 29

Practice of the behavior in a role-play situation after instructions and modeling, followed by feedback of the performance.

Answer 29

Rehearsal

Question 30

An elementary verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement.

Answer 30

Tact