Measurement
Assessment
Behavior
Reinforcement
Punishment
100
What is measured in an experiment - in behavior analysis, it is always the behavior of the subject.
What is dependent variable
100
A symptom of autism in which the child ONLY repeats spoken language (echoic in nature) and fails to exhibit normal verbal behaviors.
What is echolalia
100
Subjects are repeatedly required to engage in appropriate, correcting and incompatible behaviors.
What is over correction
100
A reinforcement schedule in which every response is reinforced.
What is continuous reinforcement
100
The procedure of restricting or limiting access to a reinforcing event or stimulus.
What is deprivation
200
Any change in the environment which alters the effectiveness of a stimulus to serve as a reinforcer and increases the probability of responses that have previously produced that stimulus - (i.e. food deprivation).
What is establishing operation
200
An thorough analysis of pretreatment behavior in terms of the antecedents and consequence associated with target behaviors. Is used to identify the function or purpose of the target behavior.
What is functional behavior assessment
200
Interference with the learning of a new instrumental response as a result of inescapable and unavoidable aversive stimulation.
What is learned helplessness
200
The procedure of restricting or limiting access to a reinforcing event or stimulus.
What is differential reinforcement of high rates
200
punishing without prior experience, biologically punishing
What is unconditioned punisher
300
The time that elapses between two successive trials in an experiment.
What is intertrial interval
300
The process of breaking a skill down into smaller steps to be taught individually.
What is task analysis
300
Teaching behaviors that are central to wide areas of functioning and whose mastery leads to improvements in a larger number of behaviors (e.g. language, fine motor skills, naming, following directions, etc..)
What is pivotal response training (PRT)
300
A particular reinforcement schedule in which reinforcement is delivered for behaviors which are incompatible with the target response.
What is differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior
300
presenting an aversive stimulus which results in weakening the behavior in the future
What is positive punishment
400
gradual increases or decreases in an observer's likelihood to identify a given behavior; reduces DV accuracy.
What is observer drift
400
Nonobservable postulated events that are presumed to explain behavior but which become problematic because they are not directly observed, and are inferred from the behavior which they are purported to cause.
What are hypothetical constructs
400
According to this principle, you can increase the strength or likelihood of a target response if you make the opportunity to perform a more preferred response contingent upon performance of the target response.
What is Premack Principle
400
A reinforcement schedule in which responding is reinforced only some of the time.
What is intermittent reinforcement
400
removing a reinforcing stimulus which results in decreasing the future occurrence of the behavior
What is negative punishment
500
A discriminative stimulus that suppresses instrumental responding because it signals that reinforcement is not available.
What is S delta
500
the pre-treatment phases prior to implementation of an intervention
What is baseline
500
Behavior which is only accessible to the individual who emits it (i.e. thinking)
What is private behavior
500
Reinforcers that are the natural outcome of the target behavior. (i.e. social rewards of engaging in verbal behavior with others)
What are intrinsic reinforcers
500
removal of a specific amount of a reinforcer already possessed contingent on a behavior. Most common type used by government, law enforcement
What is response cost
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