Lucky #7
An intervention manual describes the exact steps of a token system—how tokens are delivered, how many, for what behaviors—allowing any trained staff member to run it the same way. What is __________?
What is Technological?
At the end of every 5 minutes, a principal scans the classroom and records how many students are engaged.
What is a planned activity check?
Midway through data collection, two observers realize they’re no longer using the same definitions they agreed on—subtly shifting their criteria over time without noticing.
What is observer drift?
A student’s attention-seeking jokes stop receiving teacher reactions, and over time the behavior decreases—because reinforcement for the operant behavior is no longer provided.
What is operant extinction?
After a child completes a worksheet, the teacher gives praise and a sticker, increasing the likelihood the child will complete future worksheets.
What is positive reinforcement?
A behavior analyst shows that a client’s tantrums drop only when a specific reinforcement schedule is used—and increase again when the schedule is removed, proving a functional relation. What is ________?
What is Analytic?
A researcher times how long a student stays on task during independent reading, starting the moment the task begins and stopping when the student looks away for more than 5 seconds.
What is duration?
An observer’s coding is affected when they are aware of another coder.
What is observer reactivity?
A token economy includes this negative punishment procedure where each instance of a target behavior results in losing tokens previously earned.
What is response cost?
A student closes their noisy laptop when the fan becomes loud, and the noise stops—making them more likely to close it quickly the next time.
What is negative reinforcement?
A BCBA revises a plan so that every strategy—prompting, reinforcement, shaping, and extinction—ties directly back to fundamental behavioral principles. What is __________?
What is Conceptually Systematic?
A teacher gives the direction “Line up,” then records the number of seconds it takes before the first student begins to walk to the door.
What is response latency?
A teacher scores a student’s “disruptiveness” on a 1–5 scale at the end of each class period—quick and easy and they can compare it to the class aide, but heavily influenced by the rater’s bias and memory.
What are behavior ratings?
A child no longer reacts fearfully to the school bell after repeatedly hearing it without any aversive events—breaking the conditioned association.
What is respondent extinction?
When analyzing behavior, a BCBA considers the motivating operation (AO, EO), the antecedent, the behavior, and the consequence—elements that together form this expanded behavioral model.
What is the four-term contingency?
A teacher takes data on a student’s hand-raising across three weeks, choosing the behavior because it improves classroom participation. She tracks it with frequency counts and graphs it daily. What are _______ and ____________
What are Applied and Behavioral?
A BCBA measures how much time passes between each instance of a child calling out during circle time.
What is interresponse time (IRT)?
An observer who believes a new intervention will work unintentionally scores behaviors in ways that favor improvement—even when the changes aren’t actually present.
What is the expectancy effect?
In this consequence procedure, a child who hits a peer may either be briefly removed from the classroom or asked to stay seated while others access activities.
What is time-out (exclusionary and non-exclusionary)?
A teacher implements a behavior plan correctly only when she finds it acceptable, practical to use, and believes it will actually work—three variables known to influence this.
What is implementation fidelity?
A social-skills program significantly increases peer initiations in the clinic. Months later, the child continues to initiate with classmates at school and at home, without the intervention in place. What are _______ and ________
What are Effective and Generality?
To evaluate a new teaching method, a teacher counts how many learning opportunities it takes before a student can correctly identify all uppercase letters with 90% accuracy.
What are trials to criterion?
What is the characteristic error of whole-interval recording?
What is an underestimation of how often the behavior really occurs.
This behaviorist revolutionized the field by developing the experimental analysis of behavior, founding radical behaviorism, and popularizing the cumulative recorder; the other established Stimulus-Response Behaviorism and famously conditioned “Little Albert.”
Who are B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson?
On a playground, a child can either play a tablet game that gives praise every 2 minutes or join a group game that provides social attention about every 6 minutes. The child spends roughly three times as much time on the tablet.
What is the matching law?