Foundations of ABA
The application of a consequence stimulus which increases the future rate of a behavior
What is positive reinforcement?
Application of the principles of behavior to change socially significant behaviors, while analyzing whether any changes are attributable to such application.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis (or ABA)?
Also called "count", is a tally of the number of times a discrete behavior occurs.
What is frequency?
A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is delivered on every instance of a behavior.
What is continuous?
Evokes behavior and is the desire for a reinforcer
What is MO (or motivating operations)?
The removal of a stimulus which decreases the future rate of a behavior.
What is negative punishment?
A form of behaviorism that attempts to understand all human behavior, including private events such as thoughts and feelings, in terms of controlling variables in the history of the person (ontogeny) and the species (phylogeny) (Cooper et al., 2020, p., 797).
What is Radical Behaviorism?
The number of responses per unit of time.
What is rate?
A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is delivered based on the same time.
What is fixed interval?
Evokes behavior and signals the availability of a reinforcer (acronym)
What is "SD"?
Ceasing reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.
What is extinction?
Skinner's early work in laboratories, manipulating variables and confirming principles of behavior, among others.
What is Experimental Analysis of Behavior (or EAB)?
The amount of time from the onset of the response to the offset (ending) of the response; how long it lasts.
What is duration?
A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is delivered based on an average number of behaviors exhibited.
What is variable ratio?
Signals the unavailability of a reinforcer
What is "S delta" (or stimulus delta)?
Occurs when a behavior lasts over time and occurs in environments other than that of initial intervention.
What is generality?
An untrue variable that is often another name for an observed behavior that contributes nothing to an understanding of the variables responsible for developing or maintaining the behavior; often involve circular reasoning.
What is explanatory fiction?
The amount of time between the onset of a stimulus and a subsequent response (e.g., from a cue to a behavior).
What is latency?
Term for the procedure in which reinforcement delivery is changed to more natural reinforcement in order to maintain and generalize behavior.
What is thinning?
A reinforcer has an ___ effect on behavior, while a punisher has an ___ effect on behavior.
What is evocative, abative?
Requires that all simple, logical explanations for a phenomenon be ruled out before consideration of more complex or abstract explanations.
What is parsimony?
The philosophical position that the truth of a statement is a function of how well the statement promotes effective action (p. 12); a primary method by which behavior analysts judge our findings.
What is pragmatism?
A measure of the number of response opportunities needed to achieve a predetermined level of performance.
What is trials to criterion?
Aterm describing the situation ni which reinforcement is thinned too quickly and the behavior decreases or stops.
What is ratio strain?
A CMO-__ is a stimulus that acquires MO effectiveness by preceding some form of worsening or improvement; a warning signal
What is CMO-R (or reflexive CMO)?