Verbal Behavior
Treatment Designs
Foundations
Reinforcement/
Punishment
Wild Card
100

This man began working on the behavioral analysis of language in 1934, proposing that language is a learned behavior.

BF Skinner
100

Name at least 3 scenarios when you would add a phase line to a graph.

1. A significant component of the behaviors being treated or the intervention is changed (e.g., added FCT, added response cost, revising an operational definition) 

2. To indicate a change from baseline to intervention

3. To indicate a withdrawal of the intervention

4. To indicate a significant change in reinforcement procedure

100

List 7 dimensions of ABA

Applied, Behavior, Analytic, Conceptually Systematic, Technological, Generality, Effective

100

What type of prompts could be used to teach a long chain, such as getting dressed, versus what types of prompts should be avoided in order to promote maximum independence? 

Physical and model prompts could be used, verbal prompts should be avoided. 

100

This kind of motivating operation is what you'd use to describe when an event makes you feel like you do NOT want do something. 

Abolishing operation

200

Behavior whose reinforcement is mediated by a listener, also including gestures

Verbal Behavior

200

Name this type of treatment design

ABAB design

200

This is the three-term contingency of behavior

Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence

200

A teenager comes home passed their curfew. Their parents take away their car keys for a week then give the keys back. The teenager does not come home late anymore. What kind of positive/negative reinforcement/punishment combination is this and why?

Negative punishment (a procedure called "response cost"). The keys were removed (negative), and it decreased (punished) the teenager's behavior of breaking curfew.  

200

What is the main difference between a mand and a tact/intraverbal? 

The mand is reinforced with access to the item requested, a tact or intraverbal is reinforced with a generalized reinforcer (e.g., verbal praise, token, tanigble). 

300

Name the main 6 types of verbal operants as listed by Cooper et al. (2007)

Mands, Tacts, Echoics, Intraverbals, Textual, Transcription

300

Review AR Vocal's graph from 2017-2018. This is an example of what kind of treatment design? (Bonus 100 pts to identify what the criterion is)

Changing criterion

300

This occurs when the relationship between a behavior and its reinforcing consequence no longer exists. 

Extinction

300

You used to set your coffee on the copy machine. Someone chastised you for doing this, so you don't do it anymore. The fact that you no longer set your cup on the machine is an example of this. 

Conditioned punishment

300

This is an example of which stimulus equivalence relation:

Symmetry 

400

Describe the A-B-C sequence of a mand during mand training

A: presentation of item (i.e., establishing MO)

B: the request (can be verbal, textual, gesture, picture exchange, etc.)

C: the listener's response to the mand (i.e., honoring the mand)

400

What type of experimental design is described below

The rapid alternation of two or more distinct treatments (IVs) while their effects on the target behavior DV are measured.

Alternating Treatments Design

400

Describe the difference between respondent and operant behavior.

Respondent behavior, it is elicited by a stimulus that immediately precedes it (it's in response to an antecedent). Operant behavior is still elicited by a preceding stimulus, but reinforced by the event that follows it (i.e., reinforced by the consequence).

400

Following reinforcement, an evocative effect on behavior does this to a behavior. 

Increases the future frequency of the behavior

400

When looking at a task analysis/long chain, there are two kinds of SD's - the one that initiates the entire chain and ...

the SD that evokes each consecutive step. 

500

*DAILY DOUBLE* Describe the A-B-C sequence of tact training

A: presentation of item 

B: learner labels item 

C: learner provided access to item labeled, ultimately becoming a generalized conditioned reinforcer where the act of labeling the item becomes naturally reinforcing 

500

What type of design is this? Does this graph show experimental control?

Multiple BSL design and yes there is control 

500

Name and briefly describe the 3 branches of Behavior Analysis

1.Behaviorism: philosophy of the science of behavior

2.Experimental Analysis of Behavior: basic research

3.Applied Behavior Analysis: developing technology for improving behavior

500
Reinforcement and punishment are associated with ___________ conditioning. 

Operant 

500

What are the 4 conditions of a functional analysis?

Alone, Control, Attention, Escape