Occurs when a behavior is immediately followed by the presentation of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
100
Antecedent: Walks into California salon
Behavior: Shaves head
Consequence: Media allegations of drug use
Who is Britney Spears?
100
An elementary verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement.
What is a tact?
100
SD
What is discriminative stimulus?
200
An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to the behavior of interest.
What is antecedent?
200
A therapist reinforcers a client after 5 responses, then after 7, then after 3. This type of reinforcement schedule is being employed.
What is variable ratio?
200
Antecedent: Walking through a restaurant kitchen with friends
Behavior: Voids into a mop bucket
Consequence: Friends post incident on social media outlets; fans outraged
Who is Justin Bieber?
200
An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by an MO and followed by a specific response.
What is a mand?
200
A-B-C
What is antecedent, behavior, consequence?
300
The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are used to improve socially significant behavior.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)?
300
This is the practice of reinforcing only those responses within a response class that meet a specific criterion and placing all other responses on extinction.
What is differential reinforcement?
300
Antecedent: Enters car after drinking in a club
Behavior: Arrested for DUI; sends out tweet asking President Obama to fire arresting officer
Consequence: Enters rehab one week later
Who is Amanda Bynes?
300
An elementary verbal operant that is evoked by a verbal discriminative sitmulus and that DOES NOT have point-to-point correspondence with that verbal stimulus.
What is an intraverbal?
300
FBA
What is functional behavior assessment?
400
Occurs when a stimulus change immediately follows a response and increases the future frequency of that type of behavior in similar conditions.
What is reinforcement?
400
In this reinforcement schedule, you deliver reinforcement for the first response following the passage of a fixed duration of time since the last response was reinforced.
What is fixed interval (FI)?
400
Antecedent: Performing on MTV Music Awards show
Behavior: Twerks with large foam finger
Consequence: Countless spoof videos
Who is Miley Cyrus?
400
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence with the response.
What is an echoic?
400
VR
What is variable ratio?
500
A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.
What is consequence?
500
An example includes:
A child cries when presented with a demand to complete a task. The teacher removes the demand. The next time that demand is placed, the child immediately begins to cry.
What is negative reinforcement?
500
Antecedent: Spends night drinking with Kanye West
Behavior: Leaves candle burning; starts fire in New York hotel
Consequence: Banned from Bowery Hotel
Who is Florence Welch (of Florence and the Machine)?
500
An elementary verbal operant involving a spoken verbal stimulus that evokes a written, typed, or finger-spelled response.