Definitions
This is the science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
A consequence that increases a behavior by being added after the behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
This behavior occurs in order to get out of a task or to get away from a person or interaction.
What is escape maintained behavior?
A verbal operant where the speaker requests something.
What is a mand?
This BSA signed up for a dancing class (Folklorico)
Who is Elizabeth?
This term refers to the observable and measurable interaction between an organism and its environment.
What is behavior?
A consequence that increases behavior by removing something unpleasant.
What is negative reinforcement?
This behavior occurs in order to gain attention (either positive or negative) from adults or peers.
What is attention maintained behavior?
A verbal operant where the speaker labels things.
What is a tact?
This BSA enjoys fishing and has caught a few fish. This BSA has also swam around the pier!
Who is Tatiana?
A stimulus change that follows a behavior and increases the future frequency of that behavior.
What is reinforcement?
A reinforcer that has biological importance, like food or water.
What is an unconditioned reinforcer?
Behavior with a "tangible" function
What is behavior that occurs in order to gain access to a desired item or activity?
This verbal operant is evoked by a verbal stimulus and has point-to-point correspondence.
What is echoic?
This BSA used to collect fossils, crystals, and geodes as a kid and still has them to this day.
Who is Nicole
The process of breaking a complex skill into smaller, teachable units.
What is task analysis?
A reinforcer that is learned through pairing with other reinforcers.
What is a conditioned reinforcer?
This behavior occurs just because it "feels good" and is likely to happen even when the person is alone.
What is automatically reinforcing behavior?
A fill-in-the-blank style verbal response evoked by a verbal stimulus.
What is intraverbal?
This BSA went dog sledding on a glacier in Alaska.
Who is Corinne?
This is a type of functional relation where a specific change in one variable reliably produces a change in another variable.
What is a functional relationship?
A reinforcement schedule where a reinforcer is delivered after an unpredictable number of responses.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
Replacement behavior
What is an appropriate behavior that serves the same function as the target behavior?
This verbal operant is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus, but has no formal similarity.
What is a textual response (reading)?
The top of this BSAs bucket list is to swim with a killer whale
Who is David?