Unit 6

Question 1

A functional assessment method involving direct observation of the antecedents, the target behavior, and the consequences of the behavior.

Answer 1

ABC observation

Question 2

A dimension of ABA that means that analysts work to demonstrate experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior, or functional relations.

Answer 2

Analytic

Question 3

A stimulus or event that precedes the target behavior.

Answer 3

Antecedent

Question 4

A technologically consistent behavior modification method that possesses sufficient generality across subjects, settings, and/or behaviors to warrant its codification and dissemination.

Answer 4

Behavior change tactic

Question 5

The likelihood that a given behavior will occur in a given circumstance.

Answer 5

Conditional probability

Question 6

A learned stimulus-response functional relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus and the response it elicits.

Answer 6

Conditioned reflex

Question 7

A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.

Answer 7

Consequence

Question 8

Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables.

Answer 8

Contingency

Question 9

Exchanging the two reinforcement contingencies for two topographically different responses.

Answer 9

Contingency reversal

Question 10

The state of an organism with respect to how much time has elapsed since it has consumed or contacted a particular type of reinforcer.

Answer 10

Deprivation

Question 11

Direct observation of problem behavior and the antecedent and consequent events under naturally occurring conditions.

Answer 11

Descriptive functional behavior assessment

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

Discriminative stimulus

Question 13

The conglomerate of real circumstances in which the organism or referred part of an organism exists.

Answer 13

Environment

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 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.

Answer 15

Functional analysis

Question 16

A systemic method of assessment for obtaining information about the purposes a problem behavior serves for a person.

Answer 16

Functional behavior assessment

Question 17

A response that results in the same reinforcing outcome as an alternative response. The response serves the same function as the alternative response.

Answer 17

Functionally equivalent

Question 18

A decrease in responsiveness to repeated presentations of a stimulus.

Answer 18

Habituation

Question 19

Structured interviews, checklists, rating scales, or questionnaires used to obtain information from people who are familiar with the person exhibiting the problem behavior.

Answer 19

Indirect functional assessment

Question 20

All of the behaviors that a person can do, or a set of behaviors relevant to a particular setting or task.

Answer 20

Repertoire

Question 21

Behavior that is elicited, or induced, by antecedent stimuli.

Answer 21

Respondent behavior

Question 22

A single instance of an occurrence of a specific class or type of behavior.

Answer 22

Response