Behavior
A specific instance of behavior
RESPONSE
The process of adding a stimulus which results in an increase in a desired behavior
Positive Reinforcement
The amount of time the elapses between two consecutive instances of a response class
Interresponse time (IRT)
This type of verbal operant is controlled by a verbal SD, has point-to-point correspondence, formal similarity, and produces generalized conditioned reinforcement.
ECHOIC
A type of motivating operation that increases the effectiveness of a stimulus as a reinforcer.
Establishing Operation
The pioneer of Radical Behaviorism
BF Skinner
The use of differential reinforcement to produce successive approximations toward a terminal behavior.
Shaping
A method for measuring the degree to which 2 or more independent observers report the same values after measuring the same events.
Interobserver Agreement
Answering a question is an example of this verbal operant
Intraverbal
Behavior controlled by a verbal description of a behavioral contingency.
Rule-governed behavior
A philosophical position that views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science
Methodological Behaviorism
A type of conditioned reinforcer that has been paired with many unconditioned and conditioned reinforcers and it's effectiveness does not depend on a motivating operation.
Generalized Conditioned Reinforcer (GCSR)
This dimensional quantity of behavior includes duration
Temporal Extent
This is the first verbal operant acquired by all human beings.
Mand
This dimension of ABA states that procedures must be defined clearly and in detail so they are replicable.
Technological
A group of responses of varying topography, all of which produce the same effect on the environment.
Response Class
A procedure that occurs when a previously reinforced response is discontinued, so that behavior decreases in the future.
Extinction
This type of measurement is best used for free operants and indicates the amount of behavior as count/time.
Rate
A form of verbal behavior that modifies other forms of verbal behavior. (Some aspect of a speaker's own verbal behavior functions as an SD or MO for additional speaker verbal behavior.
Autoclitic
A type of punishment procedure in which the individual is required to repeatedly perform a correct form of the behavior for a certain amount of time or a certain number of times
Positive Practice Overcorrection
This philosophical assumption requires objective quantification and detailed description of events
Empiricism
A stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has not produced reinforcement in the past
Stimulus Delta (S-Delta)
This time sample method include dividing an observational period into a series of intervals and recording whether a target behavior occurred at the end of the time interval.
Momentary time sampling
The emergence of accurate responding to un-trained and non-reinforced stimulus-stimulus relations following the reinforcement of responses to some stimulus-stimulus relations.
Stimulus Equivalence
The strongest basic schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is delivered after an average number of correct responses.
Variable Ratio