Basic Concepts
An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest
What is Antecedent
A measure of the total extent of time in which a behavior occurs
What is duration
Describes a situation of trust insofar as any information regarding a person receiving or having received services may not be discussed with or otherwise made available to another person or group, unless that person has provided explicit authorization for release of such information.
What is confidentiality
determinism, empiricism, experimentation, replication, parsimony, philosophic doubt
What is Attitudes of Science
Someone who provides reinforcement for verbal behavior. A listener may also serve as an audience evoking verbal behavior
What is Listener
A previously neutral stimulus that functions as a reinforcer because of prior pairing with one or more other reinforcers; sometimes called secondary or learned reinforcers
What is Conditioned Reinforcer
A measure of temporal locus; defined as the elapsed time between two successive responses.
What is interresponse time (IRT).
A situation in which a person in a position of responsibility or trust has competing professional or personal interests that make it difficult to fulfill his or her duties impartially.
What is conflict of interest
behaviorism, experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis
What are Branches of Behavior Analysis
An elementary verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement
What is Tact
A motivating operation that establishes (increases) the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer.
What is Establishing Operation
A time sampling method for measuring behavior in which the observation period is divided into a series of brief time intervals. The observer records whether the target behavior occurred at any time during the interval.
What is partial-interval recording
means that the behavior analyst must work to promote the client's independence.
What is respecting autonomy
Made bold claim that he could train anyone at random to become the type of specialist he might select or a beggar-man or thief, Stimulus-Response (S-R) psychology
Who is Watson
A type or class of behavior as distinct from a particular response instance:
Mand, tact, echoic, intraverbal, textual and transcription
What is Verbal operant
A stimulus-stimulus pairing procedure in which a neutral stimulus is presented with an unconditioned stimulus until the neural stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus that elicits the conditioned response (Pavlovian or classical conditioning)
What is Respondent Conditioning
a measure of the number of responses or practice opportunities needed for a person to achieve a preestablished level of accuracy or proficiency
What is trials-to-criterion
The use of behavior-analytic assessment techniques for purposes that are appropriate given current research-focus on measurable aspects
What is Assessing Behaviour
the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occur as the result of other events;
What is Determinism
The individual speech sounds that comprise a word
What is Phoneme
the basic unit of analysis in the analysis of operant behavior; encompasses the temporal and possibly dependent relations among an antecedent stimulus, behavior, and consequence
What is Three term Contingency
a variation of momentary time sampling in which the observer records whether each person in a group is engaged in the target behavior at specific points in time; provides a measure of "group behavior"
What is planned activity check (PLACHECK)
Florida hospital that was the center of a 1972 scandal because of its horrific behavior modification practices.
What is Sunland Training Center
created by Skinner; acknowledged private, internal events; events taking place internally do not have special properties different from public, behavioral events
What is Radical behaviorism
Mand
Tact
Echoic
Intraverbal
Textual
Transcription
What are the 6 different verbal operants?