Research Designs
BA Definitions
UF Faculty
OBM
Wildcard
100

 The research design where after the intervention is implemented, the conditions are returned to baseline and then reverted to intervention once again.

ABAB Reversal Design

100

Withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced response

Extinction

100

This professor has published multiple studies related to smoking cessation programs using behavior analytic tools

Jesse Dallery

100

This term refers to the branch of OBM that aims to improve organizational effectiveness by modifying employee behaviors

Performance Management

100

This book written by B.F. Skinner is a utopia strongly based in rewards and punishments

Walden II

200

The research design that involves staggered baselines between two or more independent baselines.

Multiple Baseline Design

200

The occurrence of the behavior in the presence of stimuli that are similar in some way to the S^D that was present during training

Generalization

200

This professor recently found that 9 out of 10 dogs prefer food to toys  

Nicole Dorey

200

This is abbreviated as VOS in behavior-based safety studies, and is demonstrated by leadership/managers

Visible Ongoing Support

200

This term refers to philosophical position that human behavior can be explained by intangible forces without being controlled by environmental influences

Free will

300

The main three topics a multiple baseline design can cover (i.e. across...)

Across Subjects, Across Behaviors, Across Settings

300

The process of analyzing a set of connected behaviors by breaking it down into its     individual stimulus-response components

Task Analysis

300

This professor researches, among many things, cultural responsiveness in behavioral science

Corina Jimenez-Gomez

300

This system involves a variety of contingencies that result in conditioned reinforcers, which may be later exchange for backup reinforcers

Token economy

300

This reinforcement schedule often results in responses in a scalloped pattern

Fixed interval 

400

The research design which includes repeated measurement of behavior while conditions alternate rapidly

Multielement Design

400

The four components of Behavioral Skills Training (BST)

Instructions, Modeling, Rehearsal, Feedback

400

This professor published "Toward a Functional Analysis of Self-Injury" in 1982

Brian Iwata

400
The process by which an intervention is established long-term into an organization

Institutionalization

400

Satiation is an example of this type of motivating operation 

Abolishing operation

500

Two limitations to the ABA Reversal Design.

1) When behavior is not reversible

2) When unethical to implement reversal of intervention

500

A complex behavior consisting of many component behaviors that occur together in a sequence

Behavioral chain

500

This professor's research includes, among other things, behavioral safety in organizations

Nicole Gravina

500

The word represented by the C in PICNIC analyses

Certain

500

This term refers to a type of verbal operant behavior that is reinforced by a stimulus directly related to the behavior

Mand