Unit 7 Flashcards

1
Q

A decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation.

A

Abative effect

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2
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Poorly credentialed individuals in the 1960s who conducted trendy, unscientific seminars about behavior modification.

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Behavior modifiers

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3
Q

Residential facilities in the 1960s and 1970s, where crude and unethical behavioral modification procedures were conducted.

A

Behavior unit

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4
Q

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

A

Conditional probability

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5
Q

Exchanging the two reinforcement contingencies for two topographically different responses.

A

Contingency reversal

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6
Q

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

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Descriptive functional behavior assessment

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7
Q

A core ethical principle that states that the behavior analyst must work diligently to ensure that patients are not injured in any way.

A

Do no harm

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8
Q

The first set of official guidelines that regulated the conduct of behavior analysts.

A

FABA Code of Ethics

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9
Q

The first state to have a professional association of behavioral analysts.

A

Florida

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10
Q

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.

A

Functional analysis

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11
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A systemic method of assessment for obtaining information about the purposes a problem behavior serves for a person.

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Functional behavior assessment

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12
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A response that results in the same reinforcing outcome as an alternative response. The response serves the same function as the alternative response.

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Functionally equivalent

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13
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Structured interviews, checklists, rating scales, or questionnaires used to obtain information from people who are familiar with the person exhibiting the problem behavior.

A

Indirect functional assessment

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14
Q

A core ethical principle that states that the behavior analyst must promote the independence or self-sufficiency of the patient.

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Respecting autonomy

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15
Q

This is a category of research designs that use a form of experimental reasoning called baseline logic to demonstrate the effect of the independent variable on the behavior of individual subjects.

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Single-subject design

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16
Q

Data that shows no evidence of an upward or downward trend.

A

Stable baseline

17
Q

A multiply-divide chart with six base-10 cycles on the vertical axis that can accommodate response rates as low as 1 per 24 hours to as high as 1,000 per minute.

A

Standard celeration chart

18
Q

A pattern of responding that exhibits relatively little variation in its measured dimensional qualities over a period of time.

A

Steady state responding

19
Q

A Florida hospital that was the center of a 1972 scandal because of its horrific behavior modification practices.

A

Sunland training center

20
Q

The overall direction taken by a data path

A

Trend

21
Q

The frequency and extent to which multiple measures of behavior yield different outcomes.

A

Variability

22
Q

Data points that do not consistently fall within a narrow range of values and do not suggest any clear trend.

A

Variable baseline

23
Q

The demonstration that the prior level of baseline responding would have remain unchanged had the independent variable not been introduced.

A

Verification

24
Q

A systematic approach for interpreting the results of behavioral research and treatment programs that entails visual inspection of graphed data for variability, level, and trend within and between experimental conditions.

A

Visual analysis