Experimental Design
ABAB Design (Reversal)
Repeating whole experiments to determine the generality of findings of previous experiments to other subjects, settings, and /or behaviors.
Replication
An analysis of complex behavior adn sequences of behavior broken into their component responses
Task Analysis
occurs before an important meeting and there's always a line
Using the bathroom
The ability for a behavior change to last over time, appear in environments other than the one in which the intervention that initially produced it was implemented, and/or lead to other behaviors not directly treated by the intervention.
Generality
An experimental design in which replications involve baselines of differing duration and interventions of differing starting times. Can be across participants, settings, and behaviors.
Multiple baseline design
Requires that all simple, logical explanations for the phenomenon under investigation be ruled out
Parsimony
Initial increases in the response rate and magnitude or intensity following extinction.
extinction burst
The object that is always in the way during behaviors and the clients tend to love it, but is also the comfiest spot in the whole center
Crashpad
When all of the study's operative procedures are identified and described with sufficient detail and clarity so that the reader can replicate the experiment and obtain the same results.
technological
An experimental design where two or more conditions are presented in rapidly alternating succession, independent of the level of responding and the effects on the target behavior. Demonstrating between two different treatments for one behavior
Multielement/Alternating Treatments Design
The practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest
A motivating operation that decreases the value of a reinforcer
Abolishing Operation
The time of day that Jake thinks is best to wash dishes and clean the microwaves
While you're making lunch
The seven dimensions of applied behavior analysis.
Generality, effective, technological, applied, conceptually systematic, analytical, behavioral
An experimental design where the initial baseline phases are followed by a series of treatment phases consisting of successive and gradual changing criteria for reinforcement or punishment. The first criterion sets before the client can earn reinforcement and decreases as they demonstrate stable rates of responding.
Changing Criterion Design
The assumption that the universe is a lawful adn orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events.
Determinism
This occurs when the learner continues to perform the target behavior after the interventions have been terminated
Maintenance
A location of a collection of stationary materials that Nancy is crazy about
Art Kitchen
The experimenter must be able to control the occurrence and non-occurrence of the behavior.
Analytic
A type of experimental design where the subjects serve as their own control.
Single-Subject Design
An attitude that the truthfulness adn validity of all scientific theory and knowledge should be continually questioned
Philosophic doubt
Reinforcing one set of responses and extinguishing another set of responses
Differential Reinforcement
The most obnoxious object in the building that is always dead, but needed the most
Walkie-Talkie
Characteristics that require the researcher to select the behavior to change that are socially significant for participants.
Applied