Acronyms
Terms
Reinforcement & Punishment
Teaching Strategies
Misc.
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MO stands for 

What is motivating operation  

100

When an environmental change causes some other stimulus change than its own removal or reduction function as conditioned reinforcement and evokes the behavior that has produced such conditioned reinforcement is referred to as .... 

CMO-T 

100

the response-contingent loss of a specific number of positive reinforcers that has the effect of decreasing the future occurrence of similar responses... 

response cost 

100

a procedure for transferring stimulus control in which features of an antecedent stimulus controlling a behavior are gradually changed to a new stimulus while maintaining the current behavior. 

Fading 

100

This is best defined as a visual format for displaying data which reveals relations between among and between series of measurements or relevant variables 

Graph 

200

US stands for 

unconditioned stimulus 

200
a decrease in the value altering effect of a stimulus as a result of increased contact is referred to as...

satiation

200

automatic ...........is determined by the ...... of ........

mediation 

reinforcement; absence(or similar); social 

200

a variety of techniques for gradually transferring stimulus control with a minimum of errors 

Errorless learning 

200

It is known as verbal behavior about verbal behavior .....

An autoclitic 

300

This term is sometimes referred as LBFA

Latency based functional analysis 

300

Unlearned functional relation between a specific type of stimulus and a specific type of response 

Reflex 

300

the ...... that is presented as a consequence and that is responsible for the subsequent increase in responding is called....... 

stimulus; positive reinforcer 

300

A term and procedure popularized by Pryor 1999 for shaping behavior using conditioned reinforcement in the form of an auditory stimulus. A handheld device produces a sound when pressed. The trainer pairs other forms of reinforcement with the sound so that the sound becomes a conditioned reinforcer. 

clicker training 

300

A behavioral effect associated with extinction in which the behavior suddenly begins to occurs after its frequency has decreased to its pre-reinforcement level or stopped entirely  

spontaneous recovery 

400

SPA stands for ....

Stimulus preference assessment 

400

the allowing of a type of behavior to occur without its reinforcement, or to the weakening that results from such procedure is known as .... 

extinction 

400

A complete description of a discriminated operant entails a ..... term contingency: .........

four; SD - R- SR+


400

Stimuli that operates directly on the antecedent task stimuli to to cue a desired behavior or correct response in conjunction with the critical SD (e.g., changing the size, color, or position of a stimulus) 

stimulus prompt 

400

talking to yourself or THINKING may be referred as ....

covert verbal behavior 

500

CAO refers to 

Conditioned Abolishing operation 

500

someone who engages in verbal behavior by engaging in mands, tacts, intraverbals, autoclitics is a...

speaker 

500

Response contingent withdrawal of positive reinforcers may .........student verbal and ........aggressiveness 

increase; physical 

500

a procedural variation of the behavior chain which involves arranging the environment such that the learner is unable to to continue the chain at a predetermined point until responding to a prompt.....

interrupted chain procedure

500

an energy change that affects an organism through its receptor cells is....

a stimulus 
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