ABA1
Behaviors maintained with negative reinforcement are placed on escape extinction when those behaviors are not followed by termination of the aversive stimulus; emitting the target behavior does not enable to person to escape the aversive situation.
The occurrence of relevant behavior under
different conditions without the scheduling of
the same events in those conditions as had
been scheduled in the training conditions
Generalization
Environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
Antecedent
The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement of behavior.
Applied Behavior Analysis
…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.
Stimulus Generalization
…the response class selected for intervention; can be defined either functionally or topographically.
Target Behavior
…The basic unit of analysis in operant behavior; includes antecedent, behavior, and consequence.
Three-term Contingency
…system whereby participants earn conditioned reinforcers as an immediate consequence for specific behaviors and exchange them for backup reinforcers
Token Economy
…is the physical form or shape of a behavior
Topography
…A variation of forward chaining in which the learner receives training on each behavior in the chain during the session.
Total Task Chaining
…A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is delivered after varying time intervals
Variable Interval
…A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is delivered after varying numbers of responses
Variable Ratio
…Behavior whose reinforcement is mediated by a listener
Verbal Behavior
…A systematic approach for interpreting graphed data (level, trend, variability)
Visual Analysis
…A time sampling method in which behavior must occur for the entire interval to be recorded
Whole-Interval Recording
An outcome or result that appears to exist because of the way it is measured but in fact does not correspond to what actually occurred.
Artifact
Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others.
Automatic Reinforcement
Treatment 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. When a learner shows competence in performing the final step in the chain, the trainer performs all but the last two behaviors in the chain, the learner emits the final two steps to complete the chain, and reinforcement is delivered.
Backward Chaining
Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior and its controlling variables
Contingency
...A procedure for increasing problem behavior in which reinforcement is delivered for a behavior that serves a s a desirable alternative to the behavior targeted for reduction and withheld following instances of problem behavior.
DRA
a secondary verbal operant in which some aspect of a speakers own verbal behavior functions as an Sd or MO for additional speaker verbal behavior. The autoclitic relation can be thought of as verbal behavior about verbal behavior.
Autoclitic
... a phenomenon in which change in one component of a multiple schedule that increases or decreases the rate of responding on that component is accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule
Behavioral Contrast
..a behavior that has sudden and dramatic consequences that extend well beyond the idiosyncratic change itself because it exposes the person to new environments, reinforcers, contingencies, responses, and stimulus controls.
Behavioral Cusp
...A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is provided at the end of a predetermined interval contingent on the number of responses emitted during the interval being fewer than a gradually decreasing criterion based on the individual's performance in previous intervals (fewer than 5 responses per minute).
DRD
...A procedure for decreasing problem behavior in which reinforcement is delivered for a behavior that is topographically incompatible with the behavior targeted for reduction and withheld following instances of the problem behavior.
DRI