Review
Name and define one of the 7 dimensions
What is Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Applied, Generality, Effective
A child says "elephant" when they walk by elephants at the zoo but not when they walk by other animals.
What is discrimination?
A type of motivating operation that makes the stimulus less desirable (less effective as a reinforcer).
What is abolishing operation (AO)?
Define rule governed behavior
What is behavior that is under the control of a verbally mediated rule; behavior insensitive to immediate contingencies?
Your cat jumps up onto the counter which they are not supposed to do. You spray your cat with water from a spray bottle and say, “No!” You never see your cat jump up onto the counter again. The introduction of the spray bottle and saying “no” immediately following the behavior of jumping up on the counter resulted in a decrease in that behavior.
What is positive punishment?
You are studying hard learning your ABA terminology. You begin to use these terms in your everyday language while at work.
What is generalization?
Your phone beeps because you received a text message. You reach over to check your phone 30 seconds later.
What is an example of latency?
Putting on your seatbelt to avoid hearing the dinging noise is an example of...
What is a contingency shaped behavior?
A learning process wherein a previously neutral stimulus (which would not alter behavior) acquires the ability to elicit a response (alter behavior).
What is respondent Conditioning? (also known as classical conditioning or pavlovian conditioning)
Rates of responding happen exclusively, or at a higher rate, in the presence of a stimulus rather than in its absence.
What is stimulus control?
The four main functions of behavior are...
What is SEAT: sensory, escape, attention, tangible?
to obtain a tangible or gain access to something, to escape or avoid a situation or aversive, to gain social attention, and for automatic or sensory reasons
A teacher is conducting an intensive teaching session with a student. The teacher says, “iPad”. The student says “iPad”.
What is an echoic?
A student is completing a math worksheet from 3:00-3:30pm. His RBT delivers reinforcement in the form of positive praise at 3:06, 3:10, 3:17, 3:20, 3:25, and 3:30pm.
What is VI(5)?
You start to feel tightness in your left eye (worsening condition), which you know from experience will lead to a blinding migraine in 15 minutes. The value of your migraine medication goes up.
What is an example of CMO-R?
Your client raises their hands 30 times per class. You want to decrease, but not eliminate, this. You set your criteria at 10 to start. If your client raises their hand 10 or less times, you deliver reinforcement. More than 10, no reinforcement.
What is a DRL?
A relation between two or more stimuli that is not directly trained and not based on physical properties of the stimuli. If A, B, and C all correspond to the same thing, and only A-B and B-C are directly trained, the relation drawn between A and C is derived.
What is derived stimulus relations?
Name and describe 3 different types of stimulus classes
What is formal (physical), temporal (similar evocative and abative effects) and functional (share function)?
During workdays, your scheduled lunch is 12:00 pm, and you are usually quite hungry by then. Today, you had a very filling breakfast and don’t feel very hungry at noon. However, when you look at the clock and see that it is noon, the presentation of the 12:00 on the clock serves as a CMO-S because it has been paired so often with being very hungry, so just seeing the clock display the time increases the value of food as a reinforcer.
What is A CMO-S?
A form of punishment that involves taking away something the individual values when they engage in an undesired behavior.
What is a response cost?
List and define the 4 verbal operants
Tact, Echoic, Mand, Intraverbal