Unit 8 Flashcards
A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.
Abolishing operation
The extent to which the observed values - the data produced by measuring an event - match the true state, or true values, of the event as it exists in nature.
Accuracy
A set of stimuli that share a common relationship. All stimuli in an antecedent stimulus class evoke the same operant behavior, or elicit the same respondent behavior.
Antecedent stimulus class
Antecedent stimuli that evoke the same response but do not resemble each other in physical form or share a relational aspect such as bigger or under.
Arbitrary stimulus class
A written document that specifies a particular target behavior for a client and the consequences that will be contingent on the occurrence or nonoccurrence of the behavior in a stated period of time.
Behavioral contract
An alteration in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is altered in effectiveness by the same motivating operation.
Behavior-altering effect
A statement or assertion that something is true.
Claim
The money received by a client or other third party for services implemented by the behavior analyst.
Compensation
A complex example of stimulus control that requires stimulus generalization within a class of stimuli and discrimination between classes of stimuli.
Concept formation
A motivating operation whose value-altering effect depends on a learning history.
Conditioned motivating operation
A principle of choosing only treatments or interventions that accord with previously gathered data about a client’s behavior.
Data-based decision-making
An increase in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation.
Evocative effect
A request for help unrelated to treatment that may conflict with BACB Guidelines for Responsible Conduct of Behavior Analysts.
Favor
Stimuli that share common physical forms or structures or common relative relationships.
Feature stimulus class
A relatively permanent change in an organism’s repertoire of MO, stimulus, and response relations, caused by reinforcement, punishment, an extinction procedure, or a recovery from punishment procedure.
Function-altering effect
When the potential recipient of services or participant in a research study gives his explicit permission before any assessment or treatment is provided. Full disclosure of effects and side effects must be provided. To give consent, the person must demonstrate the capacity to decide, do so voluntarily, and have adequate knowledge of all salient aspects of treatment.
Informed consent
A procedure for investigating conditional relations and stimulus equivalence.
Matching-to-sample
The occurrence of a previously punished type of response without its punishing consequence.
Recovery from punishment procedure
A type of stimulus-to-stimulus relation in which the learner, without any prior training or reinforcement for doing so, selects a comparison stimulus that is the same as the sample stimulus (for example, A = A).
Reflexive conditioned motivating operation
A decrease in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event caused by a motivating operation.
Reinforcer-abolishing effect
An increase in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event caused by a motivating operation
Reinforcer-establishing effect
A stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has not produced reinforcement in the past.
Stimulus delta
The conventional procedure requires one behavior and two antecedent stimulus conditions.
Stimulus discrimination training
The emergence of accurate responding to untrained and nonreinforced stimulus-stimulus relations following the reinforcement of responses to some stimulus-stimulus relations.
Stimulus equivalence
