Measurement
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Behaviorism
Functions
100
The amount of time in which behavior occurs, is the basic measure of temporal extent...
What is duration?
100
The term motivational operation (MO) is a replacement for the term...
What is establishing operation EO?
100
A procedure that occurs when reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued, as a result, the frequency of that behavior decreases in the future...
What is extinction?
100
Skinner's behaviorism that includes and seeks to understand all human behavior...
What is radical behaviorism?
100
An assessment that is designed to obtain information about the purposes (functions) a behavior serves for a person...
What is functional behavior assessment (FBA)?
200
A wide variety of procedures for detecting and recording the number of times a behavior of interest occurs...
What is event recording?
200
An increase and decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by some stimulus, object, or event...
What is evocative and abative?
200
An immediate increase in the frequency of the response after the removal of the positive, negative, or automatic reinforcement.
What is extinction burst?
200
Behaviorism that relies on public events and does not include private events in the analysis of behavior.
What is methodological behaviorism?
200
The four functions of behavior include...
What is attention, tangible, automatic (positive & negative), and escape?
300
Whole-interval, partial interval, and momentary time sampling are these types of recording methods...
What is time sampling?
300
Two common unconditioned motivating operations...
What is deprivation and satiation?
300
The repeated presentation of a conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus until the conditioned stimulus no longer ELICITS the conditioned response...
What is respondent extinction?
300
The objective study of behavior as a natural science that consist of direct observation of the relationships between environmental stimuli and the responses they evoke. In other words...stimulus-response (S-R) psychology...
What is Watsonian behaviorism?
300
Methods such as structured interviews, checklists, rating scales, or questionnaires to obtain information from people who are familiar with the person exhibiting the problem behavior to identify possible conditions or events in the natural environment that correlate with the problem behavior.
What is an indirect functional assessment?
400
A measure of the number of response opportunities needed to achieve a predetermined level of performance...
What is trials-to-criterion?
400
A type of motivating operation that is unlearned...
What is unconditioned motivating operations?
400
A predictable change in behavior (the DV) that is reliably produced by the systematic manipulation of some aspect of the person's environment (the IV)...
What is experimental control?
400
According to Skinner's radical behaviorism, this type of behavior is under the control of private stimuli...
What is verbal behavior?
400
ABC recording is this type of assessment that includes the direct observation of a behavior...
What is descriptive functional behavior assessment?
500
This time sampling method overestimates total duration and underestimates the rate of high-frequency behavior...
What is partial-interval recording?
500
Three kinds of conditioned motivating operations (CMOs)...
What is surrogate, reflexive, and transitive?
500
Alternating treatment, multiple baseline, reversal, changing criterion, are all...
What is experimental designs?
500
An approach to the study of behavior which assumes that a mental or 'inner' dimension exists that differs from a behavioral dimension...
What is mentalism?
500
An assessments where antecedents and consequences representing those in the person's natural environment are arranged so that their separate effects on problem behavior can be observed and measured...
What is a functional analysis (FA)?
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