Behavior Change Procedures
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Let's Verbalize about Verbal Operants
What The Function
The 90's
100
This occurs when a stimulus change immediately follows a response and increases the future frequency of that type of behavior in similar situations.
What is Reinforcement?
100
So no one told you life was gonna be this way Your job's a joke, you're broke Your love life's D.O.A It's like you're always stuck in second gear When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month Or even your year, but
What is Friends?
100
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a MO and followed by specific reinforcement.
What is Mand?
100
Every time Kimmy throws her pencil on the floor the teacher tells her to go to time out. Kimmy's pencil throwing behavior increases.
What is Escape/Avoidance?
100
This brand of collectibles come in varieties called Hairy the Spider, Hissy the Snake, and Morrie the Eel?
What are Beanie Babies?
200
This is the process of systematically and differentially reinforcing successive approximations to a terminal behavior.
What is Shaping?
200
Making your way in the world today Takes everything you've got; Taking a break from all your worries Sure would help a lot. Wouldn't you like to get away?
What is Cheers?
200
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with the response.
What is Echoic?
200
Mark yells during math class. Mark's teacher always comes over to tell him to stop whenever he yells. Mark's math class yelling increases.
What is Attention?
200
These were digital pets on a key chain that needed your undivided attention.
What is a Tamagotchi?
300
This procedure is used to decrease the frequency of a behavior, but not eliminate it entirely, by reinforcing increasingly longer intervals of time without a target response
What is Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Behavior (DRL)
300
I begged and pleaded with her day after day But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way She gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket. I put my Walkman on and said, "I might as well kick it."
What is Fresh Prince of Bel Air?
300
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that does not have point-to-point correspondence with that verbal stimulus
What is Intraverbal?
300
Ollie wants candy in the grocery store checkout line. When mom says no Ollie throws himself on the floor and kicks and screams. Ollie's mortified mom buys him candy so he will stop. Ollie's generalizes this skill to the Target checkout line, as well.
What is Tangible?
300
This is Nickelodeon Doug's last name.
What is Funny?
400
A procedure in which responses no longer produce reinforcement and in which the primary effect is to decrease the frequency of a behavior until it ultimately ceases to occur
What is Extinction?
400
The weather started getting rough, The tiny ship was tossed, If not for the courage of the fearless crew, The minnow would be lost, the minnow would be lost.
What is Gilligan's Island?
400
An elementary verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement.
What is Tact?
400
Gary will pick his nose over there. Gary will pick his nose on a chair. Gary will pick his nose by Cher. Gary will pick his nose everywhere!
What is Automatic?
400
This movie was based on Jane Austen's novel "Emma".
What is Clueless?
500
Method(s) for linking specific sequences of stimuli and responses to form new performances of skills (such as the use of a Task Analysis)
What is Chaining?
500
Everywhere you look, everywhere you go There's a heart, (There's a heart), a hand to hold on to Everywhere you look, everywhere you go There's a face, of somebody who needs you, Everywhere you look
What is Full House?
500
Behavior whose reinforcement is mediated by a listener.
What is Verbal Behavior?
500
This procedure involves systematic exposure to controlled assessment conditions and is the most precise way to determine the function of a behavior or behaviors.
What is a Functional Assessment (or FA)?
500
In the 90's Scientists cloned life! This is the name of the first cloned sheep.
What is Dolly?