EAB
The degree to which an organism discounts reinforcers is referenced when the area under the curve Is ______.
Smaller
Julie Varga’s husband’s first name
Ernie
His behaviorism became known as stimulus-response (S-R) psychology
Who is John B. Watson
This golden rule means to make sure the services provided to clients will maintain their safety and that their safety and that we are not knowingly engaging in practices that will cause them harm.
What is Do No Harm
This tool from OBM allows an organization to convert performances across preset scales to provide feedback to the worker.
What is a performance scorecard
According to Timberlake and Allison (1974), this is what happens when the ratio of instrumental to contingent responses in baseline is lower that the ratio of instrumental to contingent in the contingency phase.
Reinforcement
In the world of data collection, what is the group called that goes by the initials SCS
Standard Celeration Society
In The Behavior of Organisms, Skinner presented a graph of this animal’s rate of lever pressing
What is a rat
The year in which the new ethics code for behavior analysts will officially go into effect
When is 2022
A system where compensation is tied to the performer’s behavior meeting expectations.
What is performance based pay
In 1988 this author indicated that contiguity is “neither necessary nor sufficient” and that a modern view of Pavlovian conditioning “emphasizes the information that one stimulus gives about another.”
Robert Rescorla
These are the three full names of the authors to the “white book,” Pearson’s Applied Behavior Analysis 3rd addition
John O. Cooper, Timothy E. Heron and William L. Heward
A type of behaviorism that seeks to understand all human behavior including. “what is inside the skin”
Radical Behaviorism
This is a formal permission needed to begin any treatment and requires that full disclosure of all pertinent information be provided to the individual prior to permission
What is informed consent
A diagnostic tool in OBM to help determine why performance deviates from expectations and includes these elements: Antecedents and information, Equipment and process, Knowledge and skills, and Consequences.
What is the PDC-HS
According to this theory, the value of a terminal link depends on the relative reduction in delay to reinforcer signaled by the entry into that terminal link.
Delay reduction theory
The Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) was founded in 1974 as the:
MidWestern Association for Behavior Analysis (MABA)
A type of behaviorism that acknowledges the existence of mental event but does not consider them in the analysis of behavior
What is methodological Behaviorism
This occurs when someone responds to coercion or an aversive form of external control by showing an emotional reaction of anger or frustration including operant behavior which injures or is otherwise aversive to the controller
What is counter control
The permanent product used to document a verbal explanation
What is a written description
According to Timothy Shahan, (2010) these events are signposts or means to an end; that is, they have a signaling or guiding function more than and strengthening function.
Conditioned reinforcers
The first edition of JABA included an article in which shock was used for:
Cigarette smoking
Association for Professional Behavior Analysts also known as, APBA was founded on this year
When was 2008
Behavior analysts must retain records and data for this amount of year and as otherwise required by law.
What needs to be retained for 7 years?
This OBM expert authored the book “Walden 3”(more specifically: “A Liberated Workplace: Walden 3”) as well as a well known book on pay for performance.
Who is Bill Abernathy