Unit 6 Flashcards
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
The level and trend of behavior between successive data points, created by drawing a straight line from the center of each data point in a given data set to the center of the next data point in the same set.
Data path
The variable in an experiment which is measured to determine whether it changes as a result of manipulations of the independent variable.
Dependent variable
A data path that shows a decreasing trend in the response measure over time.
Descending baseline
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
The outcome of an experiment that demonstrates convincingly a functional relation, or the extent to which a researcher maintains precise control of the independent variable by presenting it, withdrawing it, and/or varying its value.
Experimental control
A statement of what the researcher seeks to learn by conducting the experiment.
Experimental question
Section 1.07 of the BACB guidelines, which states that analysts do not abuse those over whom they have authority.
Exploitative relationships
The degree to which a study’s findings are generalizable to other subjects, settings, or behavior.
External validity
Any aspect of the experimental setting, such as lighting or temperature, which must be held constant to prevent unplanned environmental variation.
Extraneous variable
A visual representation of the occurrence of behavior over time.
Graph
The variable that is systematically manipulated by the researcher in an experiment to see whether changes produce reliable changes to the dependent variable.
Independent variable
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
The extent to which an experiment shows convincingly that changes in behavior are a function of the independent variable and not the result of unknown or uncontrolled variables.
Internal validity
The value on the vertical axis around which a series of behavioral measures converge.
Level
Based on a Cartesian plane, a two-dimensional area formed by the intersection of two perpendicular lines, where any point within the plane represents a specific relation between the two dimensions described by the intersecting lines.
Line graph
The average rate of response during a smaller period of time within a larger period for which an overall response rate has been given.
Local response rate
The rate of response over a given time period.
Overall response rate
Improvements in performance resulting from opportunities to perform a behavior repeatedly so that baseline measures can be obtained.
Practice effects
A statement of the anticipated outcome of a presently unknown or future measurement.
Prediction
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 scientific relationships
Section 1.03 of the BACB Guidelines, which states that analysts are required to stay current in their specialty area.
Professional development
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 two-dimensional graph with a logarithmic scaled y-axis so that equal distances on the vertical axis represent changes in behavior of equal proportion.
Semi-logarithmic chart
