Verbal Behavior
Treatment Designs
Foundations
Reinforcement/
Punishment
Punishment
Wild Card
100
This man began working on the behavioral analysis of language in 1934, proposing that language is a learned behavior.
BF Skinner
100
The definition of "reliability" is this
the extent to which a measurement procedure yields the same value when brought into repeated contact with the same state of nature
100
List 7 dimensions of ABA
Applied, Behavior, Analytic, Conceptually Systematic, Technological, Generality, Effective
100
What type of prompts could be used to teach a long chain, such as getting dressed, versus what types of prompts should be avoided in order to promote maximum independence?
Physical and model prompts could be used, verbal prompts should be avoided.
100
This kind of motivating operation is what you'd use to describe when an event makes you feel like you do NOT want do something.
Abolishing operation
200
Behavior whose reinforcement is mediated by a listener, also including gestures
Verbal Behavior
200
Name at least 3 scenarios when you would add a phase line to a graph.
1. A significant component of the behaviors being treated or the intervention is changed (e.g., added FCT, added response cost, revising an operational definition)
2. To indicate a change from baseline to intervention
3. To indicate a withdrawal of the intervention
4. To indicate a significant change in reinforcement procedure
200
This is the three-term contingency of behavior
Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence
200
A teenager comes home passed their curfew. Their parents take away their car keys for a week then give the keys back. The teenager does not come home late anymore. What kind of positive/negative reinforcement/punishment combination is this and why?
Negative punishment (a procedure called "response cost"). The keys were removed (negative), and it decreased (punished) the teenager's behavior of breaking curfew.
200
What is the main difference between a mand and a tact/intraverbal?
The mand is reinforced with access to the item requested, a tact or intraverbal is reinforced with a generalized reinforcer (e.g., verbal praise, token, tanigble).
300
Name the main 6 types of verbal operants as listed by Cooper et al. (2007)
Mands, Tacts, Echoics, Intraverbals, Textual, Transcription
300
Name 3 treatment designs
The most specific response gets the win
300
What is the SD for a latte?
Sam was driving and was craving a Starbucks latte. On her drive home she didn't see a single Starbucks along her route! The next day she drove a different route and a saw the beloved Starbucks sign on the right side of the highway. She went inside and obtained the latte.
The Starbucks Sign
300
You used to set your coffee on the copy machine. Someone chastised you for doing this, so you don't do it anymore. The fact that you no longer set your cup on the machine is an example of this.
Conditioned punishment
300
This is an example of which stimulus equivalence relation:
Symmetry
400
Describe the A-B-C sequence of a mand during mand training
A: presentation of item (i.e., establishing MO)
B: the request (can be verbal, textual, gesture, picture exchange, etc.)
C: the listener's response to the mand (i.e., honoring the mand)
400
Review AR Vocal's graph from 2017-2018. This is an example of what kind of treatment design? (Bonus 100 pts to identify what the criterion is)
Changing criterion
400
Describe the difference between respondent and operant behavior.
Respondent behavior, it is elicited by a stimulus that immediately precedes it (it's in response to an antecedent). Operant behavior is still elicited by a preceding stimulus, but reinforced by the event that follows it (i.e., reinforced by the consequence).
400
Following reinforcement, an evocative effect on behavior does this to a behavior.
Increases the future frequency of the behavior
400
When looking at a task analysis/long chain, there are two kinds of SD's - the one that initiates the entire chain and ...
Each individual step - which is the SD that evokes the subsequent step (i.e., the step that immediately follows it).
500
*DAILY DOUBLE* Describe the A-B-C sequence of tact training
A: presentation of item
B: learner labels item
C: learner provided access to item labeled, ultimately becoming a generalized conditioned reinforcer where the act of labeling the item becomes naturally reinforcing
500
Draw an example of an ABAB treatment design graph
Judges review.
500
This occurs when the relationship between a behavior and its reinforcing consequence no longer exists.
Extinction
500
Describe all instances of reinforcement and/or punishment.
Matt went to the store with his mom and began crying. He doesn't like grocery shopping. His mom bought him a pack of M&Ms and he stopped crying while he ate them for the rest of the shopping trip. The next time he went to the store Matt cried and his mom again bought him candy. Matt stopped crying and once again enjoyed the trip to the store.
Positive Reinforcement: Matt's crying behavior is reinforced by the addition of candy. He cries again in the future under the same conditions.
Negative Reinforcement: Matt's mom's behavior of buying him candy is reinforced by the decrease of his crying behavior. She buys him candy the next time he cries under the same conditions
500
Explain the difference between partial interval and whole interval data, giving an example of what kind of behavior you'd measure with each one.
Partial - a behavior targeted for decrease
Whole - a behavior targeted for increase
*"a behavior that has no clear on/offset"