hypothesis about relations amongst specific types of environmental event and behaviors [to obtain information about the purpose (function) a behavior serves for a person.]
What is FBA
100
a rule describing how when and why reinforcement will be delivered (a rule describing a contingency of reinforcement)
What is schedules of reinforcement
100
Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others (e.g., scratching an insect bite relieves the itch).
What is automatic reinforcement
100
Anyone who functions as a discriminative stimulus evoking verbal behavior.
What is audience
100
Data are directly relevant to the phenomena measured and to the reason(s) for measuring it.
Was a relevant dimension of the behavior that is focus of the investigation measured directly/ legitimately?
A stimulus that gains its reinforcing power through its association with a primary reinforcer; also known as secondary reinforcer.
What is a conditioned reinforcer
200
A secondary verbal operant in which some aspect of a speaker's own verbal behavior functions as an SD or an MO for additional speaker verbal behavior.
What is autoclitic
200
1. actual behavior is measured
2. more valid
2. does not require inference
(indirect measure always requires an inference - conclusion based on evidence)
What is direct measurement
300
The Functional (experimental) analysis
What is the only method that allows practitioners to confirm hypothesis regarding functional relations
300
INT
What is INtermittent schedules of R*einforcement
300
Occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions.
What is positive reinforcement
300
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with the response.
What is echoic
300
obtained by procedures that are different from procedures that produced the data being evaluated
researcher has taken special precautions that sources of error are removed
What is true value
400
Analog (because antecedents and consequences similar to those occurring in natural routines are presented in a systematic manner)
What is functional analysis often referred to
400
strengthens behavior, (in Cooper: "primarily during the initial stages of learning new behaviors" p305), used to maintain established behaviors
What is INT Uses/Advantages
400
A principle that states that making the opportunity to engage in a high-probability behavior contingent on the occurrence of a low-frequency behavior will function as reinforcement for the low-frequency behavior.
What is Premack principle
400
An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus and that does not have point-to-point correspondence with that verbal stimulus.
What is intraverbal
400
When an observer unknowingly alters the way they apply a measurement system. These unintended changes in the way data are collected may produce measurement error.
What is observer drift
500
encompasses direct observation of problem behavior and the antecedent and consequent events under naturally occurring conditions.
What is Descriptive FBA
500
a lasting change in behavior
What is maintenance of behavior
500
A stimulus change that increases the frequency of any behavior that immediately precedes it irrespective of the organism's learning history with the stimulus. These are the product of the evolutionary development of the species (phylogeny). Also called primary or unlearned reinforcer.
What is unconditioned reinforcer
500
An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by an MO and followed by specific reinforcement.
What is a mand
500
the degree to which two or more independent observers report the same observed values after measuring the same events