Philosophical Underpinnings
What are the three goals of behavior analysis as a science?
Description, prediction, control
Define reinforcement
Reinforcement occurs when a response is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that increases the future likelihood of the response occurring again.
What is another name for the withdrawal experimental design?
Reversal, ABAB, ABA
Before conducting behavior-analytic services or assessment, which of the following is necessary to determine?
Do you have authority to conduct behavior analytic services with this client? What resources are available to conduct the assessment?
Define shaping
Systematically and differentially reinforcing successive approximations to a terminal behavior
Name the seven dimensions of ABA
Generality, Effective, Technological, Applied, Conceptually Systematic, Analysis, Behavioral
If A=B and B=C, then A=C. This is an example of
Transitivity
Changing criterion
Stimulus preference assessments are used to identify...
Appetitive Stimuli
Define behavior chain
A specific sequence of discrete responses ending with reinforcement
Name the six assumptions and attitudes of science
Determinism, Empiricism, Experimentation, Replication, Parsimony, Philosophical Doubt
Jerry’s child curses when Jerry is not there, but when Jerry is there no cursing occurs. Jerry appears to be a:
SDP
Name a skill that would benefit from a multiple probe system
Anything with steps that the learner needs to complete. Washing hands, brushing teeth, tying shoes, etc.
Name two disadvantages of functional analyses
May evoke dangerous behaviors, may strengthen problem behaviors, requires a large amount of time, etc.
Before using non-contingent reinforcement to decrease problem behavior, you must...
Establish the function of the behavior
All members of a species generally share the same unconditioned punishers. This is a product of...
Phylogeny
Which schedule of reinforcement typically has a graph with a scalloped trend?
Fixed interval
Name two multiple baseline designs
Across subjects, across settings, across behaviors, delayed multiple baseline
During a standard FA, which condition is used as a baseline to compare to the test conditions?
Control condition
This occurs when one or few members of a group meet the establish criterion and the entire group is rewarded.
Dependent group contingency
Which domain of behavior analysis has the goal of discovering and clarifying basic principles of behavior?
Experimental analysis of behavior
This compound schedule of reinforcement is identical to the chained schedule, but there are no discriminative stimuli with the elements in the chain.
Tandem
This is defined as systematically comparing two or more independent variables that compromise a treatment package.
Component analysis
You conduct a FA and identify that your client engages in property destruction with attention as a primary function. What would be your function-based interventions?
Planned ignoring, social skills training to teach more appropriate ways to gain attending, reinforce every occurrence appropriate attention seeking.
Explain the difference between simple and conditional discriminations
Simple- involve only one stimulus condition exerting control over a response.
Conditional- involve a behavior coming under the operant control of a stimulus only when it is in the presence of another stimulus.