Unit 7

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

Abative effect

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Behavior modifiers

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Behavior unit

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Conditional probability

Question 5

Exchanging the two reinforcement contingencies for two topographically different responses.

Answer 5

Contingency reversal

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Descriptive functional behavior assessment

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Do no harm

Question 8

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

Answer 8

FABA Code of Ethics

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Florida

Question 10

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 10

Functional analysis

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Functional behavior assessment

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Functionally equivalent

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Indirect functional assessment

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Respecting autonomy

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

Single-subject design

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Stable baseline

Question 17

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.

Answer 17

Standard celeration chart

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Steady state responding

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Sunland training center

Question 20

The overall direction taken by a data path

Answer 20

Trend

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Variability

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Variable baseline

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Verification

Question 24

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.

Answer 24

Visual analysis