Measurement Mania
Junction Junction, What's the Function
Keep Calm and Get Your Skinner On
Terminally Correct
Now I Know My ABC's
100
This is the length of time that something occurs
What is duration?
100
Jonny is sitting at the table and his mom brings him his dinner which consists of salmon and broccoli. Jonny says he doesn’t like it and wants something else. Jonny’s mom tells him he need to eat what is on his plate. Jonny then screams and throws his plate across the room. Jonny’s mom then tells him he does not have to eat that food. Name the function.
What is escape?
100
ABA is an acronym for this
What is applied behavior analysis?
100
This teaching procedure requires the trainer to perform all the steps except for the last one in the chain
What is backward chaining?
100
This is what ABC stands for
What is antecedent, behavior, consequence?
200
This is how many times something occurs
What is frequency?
200
Denise is on the playground. She looks around and then runs to the gate, opens it, and runs out of the gate into the parking lot. She then looks back at her father. Her father chases after her and says “Don’t do that! You could get hurt! You scared me!” Name the function.
What is access to attention?
200
The definition of behavior is
What is anything a dead man can't do/anything an organism does/etc.
200
This is a rule specifying the response requirements for reinforcement
What is a schedule of reinforcement?
200
This precedes the behavior in time
What is an antecedent?
300
This is when you mark "yes" if the behavior happened at any time during the interval
What is partial interval recording?
300
Maria sees a toy (blocks) that she cannot reach. She approaches her teacher and says “can you get the blocks for me?” Her teacher says “Of course.” And gets the blocks for Maria. Name the function.
What is access to tangibles?
300
This person is considered the "father" of behavior analysis
Who is B.F. Skinner? aka Burrhus Frederic
300
This is when you no longer provide reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior
What is extinction?
300
The 3 effects consequences have on behavior are
What are increase, decrease, stay the same?
400
This is when you look at the client when the MotivAider goes off and write down if the behavior occurred or not at that time
What is momentary time sampling?
400
James sees his boss coming through the door and knows that he is going to ask him to stay late that day because his co-worker that usually stays late can’t come in today. James decides to go into the bathroom so his boss does not see him. Name the function.
What is avoidance?
400
This animal is most commonly used in behavior analytic experiments
What is the rat?
400
This signals that reinforcement is available
What is discriminative stimulus/Sd
400
This determines the probability of future behavior
What is a consequence?
500
This is when the time measured is an average amount
What is variable interval?
500
Candice walks outside, shivers, and says “Brrrr it’s cold out here.”. She then puts on the jacket she has in her hands. Name the function.
What is negative automatic reinforcement?
500
This person discovered classical conditioning and "pairing" with salivating dogs, meat powder, and a bell
Who is Ivan Pavlov/Pavlov?
500
This is a group of responses that vary in topography, which all produce the same effect on the environment
What is a response class?
500
This antecedent intervention is designed to assist the client to engage in the target response
What is a prompt?