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
Data that shows no evidence of an upward or downward trend.
Stable baseline
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.
Standard celeration chart
A pattern of responding that exhibits relatively little variation in its measured dimensional qualities over a period of time.
Steady state responding
A Florida hospital that was the center of a 1972 scandal because of its horrific behavior modification practices.
Sunland training center
The overall direction taken by a data path
Trend
The frequency and extent to which multiple measures of behavior yield different outcomes.
Variability
Data points that do not consistently fall within a narrow range of values and do not suggest any clear trend.
Variable baseline
The demonstration that the prior level of baseline responding would have remain unchanged had the independent variable not been introduced.
Verification
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.
Visual analysis
