Verbal Behavior
OBM

Teaching
Behavior?
Preferences
100

A mand is controlled by this

What is an MO?

100

These are the three subfields of OBM

What are BBS, PM, and Systems?

100
When one provides learning opportunities in the natural environment

What is NET or Incidental teaching?

100

When a low-probability behavior is arranged to occur before a high-probability behavior to increase the low-probability behavior

What is Premack Principle?
100
When the want for a specific item has diminished

What is satiation?

200

The elementary verbal operants

What are echoic, mand, intraverbal, tact, textual, and transcription?

200

These are four measurement categories in OBM

What are quality, quantity, timeliness, and cost?

200

A trainer teaches skills one by one typically providing reinforcement for desired behavior

What is discrete trial training or DTT?

200

A behavior that has dramatic effects that extend beyond the behavior itself

What is a behavioral cusp?

200

Four examples of preference assessments

What are: Free Operant, Single Stimulus, Paired Stimulus, Forced Choice, MSW, MSWO?


300

Tact is controlled by this type of SD

What is nonverbal?

300

These are the four components of BST

What is instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback?
300

This method of teaching is self-paced. Once a student reaches mastery, they can continue to the next lesson. 

What is PSI or Personalized System of Instruction?

300

When a change in reinforcement rate in one context causes an opposite change in behavior in another unaltered context

What is behavioral contrast?

300

A stimulus with no eliciting effect on behavior

What is a neutral stimulus?

400

This is nonverbal behavior under the control of a verbal stimulus

What is listener behavior?

400
Reasons to not use money as a reinforcer

What is:

hard to deliver contingent on improved performance; the amounts we can give are usually so small it’s not reinforcing; pay for things people need rather than things they would like to have

400
In this form of teaching, students are arranged in small groups. A scripted lesson is followed at a fast pace and choral responding is typically used.

What is direct instruction or DI?

400

A schedule with intermittent reinforcement is likely to increase this

What is resistance to extinction?
400

An antecedent which occasions a response, due to a past history of reinforcement

What is S-delta-P?

500

Verbal behavior about one's own behavior

What is autoclitic?

500

Considerations when using tangible reinforcers

What are being valued, fitting the occasion, and being contingent?

500

Student responding is graphed on a standard celeration chart and decisions are made dependent on student's frequency.

What is Precision Teaching or PT?

500

This is the difference between value-altering and behavior-altering MOs

Value-altering increases or decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of the stimulus. Behavior-altering in the increase or decrease of the behavior.

500
A way to determine the effectiveness of a stimulus that has already been identified as preferred

What is a reinforcer assessment?