Compound Schedules of Reinforcement
Functional Analyses
Foundations
Experimental Designs
Grab Bag
100

This schedule of reinforcement occurs when 2 or more contingencies of reinforcement operate independently and simultaneously for two or more behaviors. Each schedule is correlated with a SD. The learner makes a choice among the concurrently available events.

Concurrent Schedule

100

According to Dr. Boutot (and the research), use caution with the alone condition when ___ is a suspected function of the challenging behavior?

Attention

100

A presumption by all scientists that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occur as the result of other events.

Determinism

100

Required element in a single subject design in which the independent variable is reasonably and repeatedly demonstrated control over the dependent variable.

Functional relation

100

This behavior analytic concept essentially asserts that "behavior goes where reinforcement flows"

Matching Law

200

Provides an opportunity for reinforcement on two or more simultaneously available basic schedules of reinforcement. The first schedule completed provides reinforcement, regardless of which schedule component is met first; either produces reinforcement. 

Alternative Schedule

200
This FA procedure involves beginning the session with a control condition in which all available reinforcers are available (e.g., no demands, access to preferred tangibles or activities, attention), then systematically removing each to determine function.

PFA

200

Requires that all simple, logical explanations for the phenomenon under investigation be ruled out, experimentally or conceptually, before more complex or abstract explanations are considered.

Parsimony

200

The most basic of the single case designs, used for demonstration studies, which cannot or should not be used for all dependent variables.  

ABAB, Withdrawal, or Reversal

200

The _____ (conditioned motivating operant) signals the bettering or (more commonly) worsening of the situation for the organism. What does it stand for?

CMO-R; Reflexive

300

This schedule is in effect whenever reinforcement follows the completion of response requirements for two or more schedules of reinforcement; both must be met for reinforcement to be delivered.

Conjunctive Schedule

300
When a problem behavior is so severe that it is not possible to conduct an assessment that requires repeated occurrences of the problem behavior, this type of FA procedure may be used. In this type of FA, each session is terminated as soon as the problem behavior occurs. The index of problem behavior is the time between the onset of the EO to the first occurrence of the problem behavior. 

Latency-based FA

300

An assumption and attitude of science which is the practice of objective observation and measurement of the phenomena of interest.

Empiricism

300

A commonly used single subject design in published research, name the design pictured (Dr. B to show you the picture now, please hold)

Multiple Baseline across Subjects

300

The third of the derived stimulus relations, representing that if A=B and B=C, then A=C. ______ has __ total relations?

Transitive, 6

400

Operates like a chained schedule except that SD are not used.

Tandem

400

For this type of FA, the practitioner intersperses the conditions throughout the classroom activities as they normally occur. Each presentation consists of two components, each lasting 1 minutes. The first component consists of presenting the establishing operation and contingency for problem behavior (test condition) and the second consists of continuous access to the reinforcer (control condition).

Trial-Based FA

400

This type of behaviorism, created by Skinner, includes and seeks to understand all human behavior, including private events. It can be distinguished from ________, which holds that only what is observable and measurable is a "behavior".

Radical Behaviorism, Methodological Behaviorism

400

Used in comparison studies, this design may or may not have a baseline condition, and may or may not have a best treatment condition.

Alternating Treatments Design

400

A change in the strength of one response that occurs when the rate of reward of a second response, or of the first response under different conditions, is changed.

Behavioral Contrast

500

Presents two or more basic schedules of reinforcement in an alternating, usually random, sequence. The basic schedules within this schedule occur successively and independently. A SD is correlated with each schedule.

Multiple Schedule

500

In this type of FA procedure, the practitioner conducts only 1-2 five to ten minute sessions for each condition. To demonstrate function the practitioner can either alternate a condition that produces problem behavior with one that does not, or conduct a contingency reversal. A contingency reversal is when the practitioner first makes the putative reinforcer contingent on one target behavior (challenging behavior), and then on an appropriate replacement behavior.

Brief FA

500

Selection by consequences during the lifetime of the individual organism is _______, while natural selection in the evolutionary history of a species is _______.

Ontogeny, phylogeny

500

What type of design is pictured? (Dr. B to show - hold please).

Changing Criterion Design

500

A behavior change that brings the organism in contact with new environments and additional contingencies (reinforcement).

Behavioral Cusp