Unit 7 Flashcards
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.
Abative effect
Poorly credentialed individuals in the 1960s who conducted trendy, unscientific seminars about behavior modification.
Behavior modifiers
Residential facilities in the 1960s and 1970s, where crude and unethical behavioral modification procedures were conducted.
Behavior unit
The likelihood that a given behavior will occur in a given circumstance.
Conditional probability
Exchanging the two reinforcement contingencies for two topographically different responses.
Contingency reversal
Direct observation of problem behavior and the antecedent and consequent events under naturally occurring conditions.
Descriptive functional behavior assessment
A core ethical principle that states that the behavior analyst must work diligently to ensure that patients are not injured in any way.
Do no harm
The first set of official guidelines that regulated the conduct of behavior analysts.
FABA Code of Ethics
The first state to have a professional association of behavioral analysts.
Florida
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.
Functional analysis
A systemic method of assessment for obtaining information about the purposes a problem behavior serves for a person.
Functional behavior assessment
A response that results in the same reinforcing outcome as an alternative response. The response serves the same function as the alternative response.
Functionally equivalent
Structured interviews, checklists, rating scales, or questionnaires used to obtain information from people who are familiar with the person exhibiting the problem behavior.
Indirect functional assessment
A core ethical principle that states that the behavior analyst must promote the independence or self-sufficiency of the patient.
Respecting autonomy
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.
Single-subject design