Unit 8

Question 1

A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.

Answer 1

Abolishing operation

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

Accuracy

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

Antecedent stimulus class

Question 4

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.

Answer 4

Arbitrary stimulus class

Question 5

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.

Answer 5

Behavioral contract

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

Behavior-altering effect

Question 7

A statement or assertion that something is true.

Answer 7

Claim

Question 8

The money received by a client or other third party for services implemented by the behavior analyst.

Answer 8

Compensation

Question 9

A complex example of stimulus control that requires stimulus generalization within a class of stimuli and discrimination between classes of stimuli.

Answer 9

Concept formation

Question 10

A motivating operation whose value-altering effect depends on a learning history.

Answer 10

Conditioned motivating operation

Question 11

A principle of choosing only treatments or interventions that accord with previously gathered data about a client’s behavior.

Answer 11

Data-based decision-making

Question 12

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.

Answer 12

Evocative effect

Question 13

A request for help unrelated to treatment that may conflict with BACB Guidelines for Responsible Conduct of Behavior Analysts.

Answer 13

Favor

Question 14

Stimuli that share common physical forms or structures or common relative relationships.

Answer 14

Feature stimulus class

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

Function-altering effect

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Informed consent

Question 17

A procedure for investigating conditional relations and stimulus equivalence.

Answer 17

Matching-to-sample

Question 18

The occurrence of a previously punished type of response without its punishing consequence.

Answer 18

Recovery from punishment procedure

Question 19

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).

Answer 19

Reflexive conditioned motivating operation

Question 20

A decrease in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event caused by a motivating operation.

Answer 20

Reinforcer-abolishing effect

Question 21

An increase in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event caused by a motivating operation

Answer 21

Reinforcer-establishing effect

Question 22

A stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has not produced reinforcement in the past.

Answer 22

Stimulus delta

Question 23

The conventional procedure requires one behavior and two antecedent stimulus conditions.

Answer 23

Stimulus discrimination training

Question 24

The emergence of accurate responding to untrained and nonreinforced stimulus-stimulus relations following the reinforcement of responses to some stimulus-stimulus relations.

Answer 24

Stimulus equivalence