ABA Definitions
Withholding a reinforcer to make it more valuable.
What is Deprivation?
Request for information, such as "what is your name?"
What is mand?
_____ _______ schedules mean the learner receives reinforcement for every response.
What is Continuous Reinforcement?
The 3 levels of scientific understanding.
What is description, prediction, control?
Behavior that is preceded by a model modeling the target behavior.
What is imitation?
You see a dog, and say “dog”
What is tact?
Reinforcement schedule where reinforcement becomes available after a set defined amount of time, and is delivered once the desired behavior occurs.
What is Fixed Interval?
The behavior you are measuring (i.e. target behavior) is considered the _________ _________.
What is dependent variable?
When we implement high-P instructional sequences, we are building _______ _______ with our learners.
What is behavioral momentum?
Taking notes during a college course.
What is transcription?
Reinforcement is delivered after a set predetermined number of target responses.
What is Fixed Ratio?
The universe is lawful and orderly. Everything happens for a reason. Phenomena occur as a result of other events. Events DO NOT happen without reason.
What is determinism?
An unintended change in the way an observer uses a measurement system over time that results in a measurement error.
What is Observer Drift?
The learner is reading a book.
What is textual?
Occurs when you gradually increase the response effort required in order to receive reinforcement.
What is thinning?
Reliance on the simplest, logical explanation before considering more complex explanations for events or behavior.
What is parsimony?
A ______ ________ is when learned, opens the learner to a whole new world of contingencies of reinforcement and punishment they didn't have access to before engaging in the new behavior.
What is Behavior Cusp?
Name the 6 elementary verbal operants.
What is Mand, Tact, Echoic, Intraverbal, Textual, and Transcription?
This reinforcement schedule is generally the most effective and produces steady responding.
What is Variable Ratio?
Foundation upon which knowledge is built. The act of objective observation and measurement.
What is Empiricism?