Unit 9 Flashcards
A core ethical principle that states that the behavior analyst accepts blame when necessary.
Accepting responsibility
A core ethical principle that states that the behavior analyst must treat clients with respect and be aware that many clients are not able to effectively represent themselves.
According dignity
A teaching procedure in which a trainer completes all but the last behavior in a chain, which is performed by the learner, who then receives reinforcement for completing the chain.
Backward training
A backward chaining procedure in which some steps in the task analysis are skipped. It is used to increase the efficiency of teaching long behavior chains when there is evidence that the skipped steps are in the learner’s repertoire.
Backward chaining with leap-aheads
A sequence of responses in which each response produces a stimulus change that functions as conditioned reinforcement for that response and as a discriminative stimulus for the next response in the chain.
Behavior chain
An intervention that relies on the participant’s skill in performing the critical elements of a chain independently; the chain is interrupted occasionally so that another behavior can be emitted.
Behavior chain interruption strategy
A contingency that specifies a time interval by which a behavior chain must be completed for reinforcement to be delivered.
Behavior chain with limited hold
A core ethical principle that states that the behavior analyst should treat others as he or she would want to be treated.
Being just
A core ethical principle that states that the behavior analyst must be loyal, trustworthy, and honest.
Being truthful
A core ethical principle that states that the behavior analyst must be focused on the best interests of the client and not on his or her own agenda.
Benefiting others
Various procedures for teaching behavior chains.
Chaining
The pairing of a handheld device that makes a click sound with other forms of reinforcement so that the sound becomes a conditioned reinforcer.
Clicker training
A procedure for transferring stimulus control in which features of an antecedent stimulus (controlling a behavior) are gradually changed to a new stimulus while maintaining the current behavior.
Fading
A method for teaching behavior chains that begins with the learner being prompted and taught to perform the first behavior in the task analysis.
Forward chaining
A behavior controlled by any physical movement that serves as a novel model excluding vocal-verbal behavior, has formal similarity with the model, and immediately follows the occurrence of the model.
Imitation
A core ethical principle that states that the behavior analyst needs to stay current with new developments, updated rules and regulations, new research in the field, and workshop opportunities.
Pursuit of excellence
A behavior change produced by differential reinforcement, resulting in the emergence of a new response class.
Response differentiation
Using differential reinforcement to produce a series of gradually changing response classes; each response class is a successive approximation toward a terminal behavior.
Shaping
When an antecedent stimulus has a history of evoking a response that has been reinforced in its presence, the same type of behavior tends to be evoked by stimuli that share similar physical properties with the controlling antecedent stimulus.
Stimulus generalization
A stimulus that acquires its MO effectiveness by being paired with another MO and has the same value-altering and behavior-altering effects as the MO with which it was paired.
Surrogate conditioned motivating operation
An environmental variable that, as a result of a learning history, establishes (or abolishes) the reinforcing effectiveness of another stimulus and evokes (or abates) the behavior that has been reinforced by that other stimulus.
Transitive conditioned motivating operation
A core ethical principle that states that the behavior analyst must exhibit genuine sympathy and concern.
Treating others with care and compassion
The occurrence alone of a stimulus that acquired its function by being paired with an already effective stimulus, or the occurrence of the stimulus in the absence as well as in the presence of the effective stimulus.
Unpairing
An alteration in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event as a result of a motivating operation.
Value-altering effect
