Foundational Knowledge
The 6 attitudes of Science.
What is Determinism, Empiricism, Experimentation, Replication, Parsimony, Philosophic Doubt?
The 3 dimensional quantities of measurement.
What is repeatability, temporal extent, temporal locus?
This is a known as a demand or request.
What is a mand?
Name the 5 types of experimental designs.
What is withdrawal, alternating treatments, multiple baseline design, changing criterion, and reversal?
3 categories for stimulus preference assessments?
What is ask, free operant, trial based?
The 5 types of positive reinforcers.
What is edibles, activities, tangibles, social, and sensory?
Give examples for the 3 different procedures for measuring behavior.
What is clicker (event recording) #count, timer (timing) #duration, and whole/partial/MTS (time sampling procedures)?
This is controlled by a non-verbal SD as the antecedent.
What is a tact?
The most powerful within subject design for demonstrating experimental control.
What is Reversal design?
This creates corresponding changes in other untrained behaviors from learning the skill in one setting/situation?
Pivotal Behaviors
The 4 types of non-exclusionary time-out.
What is planned ignoring, withdrawal of a specific positive reinforcer, observation, ribbon?
The amount of response opportunities needed to meet criteria.
This verbal operant has point to point correspondence and formal similarity?
What is echoic?
Alternating treatment designs has multiple AKAs.
Reading, Generalized imitation, and behaviors that opens a person's world to new contingencies and environments is known as...
What is behavior cusp?
The 7 strategies to promote generalization.
What is programming common stimuli, training loosely, multiple exemplars, mediation, indiscriminable contingencies, negative teaching examples, and general case analysis?
Explain Continuous vs Discontinues behaviors?
Which verbal operants have point to point correspondence but no formal similarity? Please describe what this looks like.
What is transcription and textual?
When observers unknowingly alter the way they apply a measurement system.
Which condition for the FA tests for positive reinforcement.
What is contingent attention?
This hinders stimulus control? (Hint: 2 terms)
What is masking and overshadowing?
Whole: advantages are best for measuring bx you want to increase Not good for decrease of bx. Partial: easy to measure multiple behaviors at once, best for decreasing bx Not good for increase
Scenario: Mary sneezes ("Aaaachhhhooo") and Bob says "Bless you". Bob's behavior is known as which verbal operant and why?
What is the difference between treatment drift and observe bias?
Observer bias relates to the observer having expectations that change follow in a particular direction. On the other, treatment drift relates to the IV and how its application changes in later phases than originally implemented.
In prioritizing target behaviors for intervention, _____ should come before _____.
What is chronic (1) and recent (2).