Motivating Operations
A stimulus that precedes some worsening or improving situation
What is a CMO-R?
A mnemonic for the 7 dimensions of ABA.
What is GET A CAB or BAT CAGE?
This technique involves teaching a complex behavior by breaking it down into smaller steps.
What is a task analysis?
This schedule provides reinforcement for each occurrence of behavior.
What is continuous reinforcement?
You should exhaust these types of procedures before moving to punishment based.
What is reinforcement based?
Makes something else into a reinforcer but does not change itself
A mnemonic for the 4 functions of behavior.
What is SEAT or EATS?
They themselves have no intrinsic value. Their reinforcing power comes from the fact that they can be exchanged for a wide range of "backup reinforcers".
What are tokens?
During this, no occurrence of the behavior produces reinforcement
What is extinction?
Behavior analysts do not give gifts to or accept gifts from clients, stakeholders, supervisees, or trainees with a monetary value of more than this amount.
What is $10?
Otherwise neutral states that now have value because they have been paired with a UMO, another CMO or with reinforcement or punishment in order to learn the value of the given CMO.
What is a Conditioned Motivating Operation?
Mnemonic for the philosophical assumptions of ABA.
What is DR. PEEP?
This is a term for a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response.
What is an Unconditioned Stimulus?
Type of schedule of reinforcement where some, but not all, occurrences of the behavior are reinforced.
What is intermittent reinforcement?
Guides the professional activities of behavior analysts over whom the BACB has jurisdiction.
What is the Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts?
The 2 effects of a motivating operation.
What is value altering and behavior altering?
P(ER)MIT ... the P(ER) is for Percent, the M is for Momentary Time Sampling, the I is for Interval (partial and whole), and the T is for Trials to Criterion.
What is the mnemonic for indirect methods of measurement?
The 3 levels of understanding yeilded by scientific investigations.
What is description, prediction, and control?
FI, FR, VI, VR
The direct recipient of the behavior analyst’s services.
What is a client?
Has the same effect as the MO in which it was paired with
What is a CMO-S?
What the mnemonic DR. LIFE means (the D is for duration)...
What are the measurements of behavior--Duration, Rate, Latecy, Inter-Response Time, Frequency, Event Recording?
A book written by BF Skinner in 1957.
What is Verbal Behavior?
Multiple, alternative, chained, and mixed.
What are types of Compound Schedules of Reinforcement?
An individual, other than the client, who is impacted by and invested in the behavior analyst’s services (e.g., parent, caregiver, relative, legally authorized representative, collaborator, employer, agency or institutional representative, licensure board, funder, third-party contractor for services).
What is a stakeholder?