Unit 8 Flashcards
An experimental design in which two or more conditions are presented in rapidly alternating succession independent of the level of responding; differences in responding between or among conditions are attributed to the effects of the conditions.
Alternating treatment design
The degree to which a study’s findings are generalizable to other subjects, settings, or behavior.
External validity
A procedure for treating habit disorders, including awareness training, competing response training, social support, generalization strategies, and motivational strategies.
Habit reversal
The extent to which an experiment shows convincingly that changes in behavior are a function of the independent variable and not the result of unknown or uncontrolled variables.
Internal validty
A self-directed behavior change technique in which the person forces herself to perform an undesired behavior repeatedly, which sometimes decreases the future frequency of the behavior.
Massed practice
Repetitive, jerking movements of a particular muscle group in the body.
Motor tics
An experimental design in which two or more conditions (one of which may be a no-treatment control condition) are presented in rapidly alternating succession (such as on alternating sessions or days) independent of the level of responding. Differences in responding between or among conditions are attributed to the effects of the conditions.
Multi-element design
The effects of one treatment on a subject’s behavior being confounded by the influence of another treatment administered in the same study.
Multiple treatment interference
Repetitive, manipulative behaviors that are most likely to occur when a person experiences heightened tension.
Nervous habit
A contingency contract that a person makes with himself, incorporating a self-selected task and reward as well as personal monitoring of task completions and self-delivery of the reward.
Self-contract
A procedure in which a person compares his performance of a target behavior with a predetermined goal or standard; often a component of self-management.
Self-evaluation
A type of cognitive behavior modification procedure in which the client learns to make specific self-statements that increase the likelihood that a target behavior will occur in a specific situation.
Self-instructional training
Self-statements that make it more likely that a target behavior will occur in a specific situation.
Self-instruction
Behavior modification procedures used by a person to change his or her own behavior.
Self-management
A type of direct observation data collection in which the client observes and records his or her own behavior as it occurs.
Self-monitoring
