Unit 6 Flashcards

1
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Behavioral efficiency: _____

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Same or more reinforcement is produced for less effortful responses

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2
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Component skills: _____

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Basic elements of higher-order skills

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3
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Composite skills: _____

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Combination of 1 or more component skills to form a more complex response

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4
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Contingency-shaped behavior is: _____

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Behavior acquired by direct experience

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5
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Rule-governed behavior is behavior primarily controlled by: _____

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Verbal descriptions of an A-B-C contingency

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6
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Instructions: Steps to (3): _____

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(1) Learn a skill
(2) Complete a task
(3) Reach a desired result

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7
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A rule is a: _____

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Verbal account of the contingencies of behavior

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8
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Implicit rule: Antecedent, target behavior, or consequence are: _____

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Missing or unclear

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9
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Explicit rule: Antecedent, target behavior, and consequence are: _____

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Clearly described

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10
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An accurate rule: _____

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Correctly describes contingencies to occur, given certain behavior

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11
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An inaccurate rule: _____

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Incorrectly describes behavior-environment relation

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12
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A contingency contract (between 2+ parties) specifies the: _____

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Consequence(s) that will follow completion of target behavior(s)

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13
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Response cost:

What is it?: _____

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Response-contingent loss of appetitive stimuli

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14
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Response cost:

What does it do?: _____

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Decreases the future frequency of specified or similar responses

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15
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Premack principle: _____

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Low-p behavior is reinforced by opportunity to engage in high-p behavior

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16
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Group contingency:

Consequence for the group is contingent on (3): _____

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(1) Individual member
(2) Subset of the group
(3) Whole group

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17
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Independent group contingency:

What is it?: _____

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Single contingency in effect for all group members individually

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18
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Independent group contingency:

Who receives the reward?: _____

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Individual members who meet the criterion

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19
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Dependent group contingency:

Who must meet the requirement?: _____

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1 person or subset of group

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20
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Dependent group contingency:

Who receives the reward?: _____

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All members of the group

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21
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Interdependent group contingency:

What is it?

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All members earn the reward only if all members meet the criterion

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22
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Indiscriminable group contingency:

Cannot predict reward delivery based on: _____

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(1) Group members
(2) Target behaviors
(3) Settings
(4) Rewards
(5) Times

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23
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Token economy: _____

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Behavioral program where participants earn generalized conditioned reinforcers (tokens) for specified behaviors

24
Q

Tokens are exchanged for: _____

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Backup reinforcers

25
Q

Tokens are a form of: _____

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Generalized conditioned reinforcers

26
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Backup reinforcers can include (3): _____

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(1) Privileges
(2) Activities
(3) Preferred stimuli

27
Q

Backup reinforcers are received by: _____

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Exchanging tokens earned

28
Q

A level system is a: _____

A

Behavioral program where participants have different statuses

29
Q

Level system adjusts: _____

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Amount of reinforcement to a person’s level (status) within the system

30
Q

Self-management: _____

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Application of behavior change strategies to one’s own behavior

31
Q

Self-monitoring: _____

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Person observes and records their own occurrence or nonoccurrence of a target behavior

32
Q

Generative instruction:

Teaching procedures that lead to: _____

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Emergence of a complex behavioral repertoire without explicit instruction

33
Q

Stimulus equivalence: Describes the development of: _____

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Novel (untrained) stimulus relations after reinforcement history with relating the stimuli

34
Q

MTS is a discrete trial procedure that: _____

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Investigates conditional relations and stimulus equivalence

35
Q

Reflexivity: Learner selects: _____

A

Comparison stimulus that is the same as the sample stimulus

36
Q

Reflexivity occurs without: _____

A

Direct training or contingencies of reinforcement

37
Q

Symmetry is a stimulus-stimulus relation demonstrated through: _____

A

Reversibility with the comparison stimulus

38
Q

Derived relational responding: _____

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Responding to 1 stimulus in terms of another stimulus

39
Q

Derived relational responding occurs without: _____

A

Direct training or contingencies of reinforcement

40
Q

Transitivity is a stimulus-stimulus relation that emerges upon: _____

A

Being trained on 2 other stimulus-stimulus relations

41
Q

RFT is a: _____

A

Generative approach to verbal behavior

42
Q

RFT extends: _____

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Skinner’s verbal behavior framework by accounting for language and cognition

43
Q

Arbitrarily applicable relational responding (AARR):

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Forming new stimulus classes with little or no reinforced practice

44
Q

A relational frame is a: ____

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Pattern of AARR

45
Q

Features of a relational frame (3): _____

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(1) Mutual entailment
(2) Combinatorial entailment
(3) Transformation of stimulus function

46
Q

Mutual entailment is a : _____

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Derived bidirectional relation where 1 “direction” was directly trained

47
Q

Combinatorial mutual entailment involves: _____

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2 stimuli that participate in mutual entailment with a common 3rd stimulus

48
Q

Transformation of stimulus function: _____

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Function of 1 stimulus systematically changes due to change in another stimulus in the same class

49
Q

Suggested term for “rules”: _____

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Contingency-specifying stimuli

Blakely & Schlinger, 1987

50
Q

Specificity of the rule, accuracy of the rule, complexity of the rule, who provides the rule, timing of the rule consequence, learner’s history with the rule: These are the: _____

A

6 factors that impact the effectiveness of rules

51
Q

Premack principle AKA: _____

A

Grandma’s Law

52
Q

Types of group contingencies (3): _____

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(1) Independent
(2) Dependent
(3) Interdependent

53
Q

Types of stimulus equivalence (3): _____

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(1) Reflexivity
(2) Symmetry
(3) Transitivity

54
Q

3 characteristics of AARR: _____

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(1) Mutual entailment
(2) Combinatorial mutual entailment
(3) Transformation of function

55
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AARR stands for: _____

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Arbitrarily applicable relational responding