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| What is the basic behavior? |
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| Any muscular, glandular or electrical activity |
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| What is the DEAD Man Test? |
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| If a dead man can do it, it isn’t behavior |
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| What is a positive reinforcer? |
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| Stimulus that increases the frequency of a behavior |
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| What is behavior analysis? |
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| Study of the principles of behavior |
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| Where did behavior analysis begin? |
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| What does behaviorism examine? |
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| Examining individual behaviors and what one can do… |
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| Application of the Principles of Behavior to improve human performance |
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| Which Scientist is most closely associated with ABA? |
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| What scientist worked with verbal behavior and used Schedules of Reinforcement? |
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| What is Experimental Analysis of Behavior? |
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| Skinner’s term to describe adjusting behavior by altering environment |
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| What term refers to increasing the frequency of entering reinforcers in that setting? |
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| What is the Skinners Box? |
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| Test chamber, with response device and a set of reinforcers |
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| What was a flagship journal for field? |
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| What did Baer, Wolf, Risley? |
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| Created groundwork for ABA |
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| What are the 7 Dimensions of the ABA? |
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| Applied, Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Effective, Generality |
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| What question is basic research attempting to answer? |
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| Answers questions to add to general knowledge |
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| What questions are applied research attempting to answer? |
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| Solving a specific problem, searching for causation |
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| What are 6 current areas of the ABA? |
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| 1.Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2.Substance Abuse, 3.Gambling, 4.Crimes, 5.Teaching,6. Verbal Behavior |
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| What type of behavior will be the focus of our class discussions? |
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| What is behavior that can be observed with the naked eye? |
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| What type of behavior is thinking? |
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| What is a Behavioral Repertoire? |
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| Set of skills a person can do |
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| What are the 3 Behavioral Contingencies? |
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| Occasion for a response, response, outcome of the response |
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| What does 5 things does the action test eliminate as behaviors? |
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| 1.Seeing, 2.feeling, 3.hearing, 4.Being, 5.Learning |
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| Specific Behavior Test, Response-Unit Test, Stimulus Test, Causality Test, 60 Seconds Test, Receiver Test |
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| What is the corner stone of ABA? |
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| *What is a positive reinforcer? |
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| The immediate, response-contingent presentation of a reinforcer resulting in the increased frequency of that response. Stimulus that increases the frequency of a behavior |
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| When the student’s goal is divided into pieces and goals in order to increase its accessibility? |
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| If one looks at a particular part of an individual’s life and then views life as a set of errand that need to be broken into components? |
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| What would praising your student’s actions be considered? |
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| What is the difference between reinforcement and a bribe? |
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| 1.Bribe used to bring about one instance of response, 2.Prior knowledge of Rule needed for a rule |
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| occurs automatically; without a pre-planned system designed and implemented by others |
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| What is another name for negative reinforcer? |
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| Immediate, response contingent removal of an aversive condition resulting in an increased frequency of that response. |
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| What removes or reduces and aversive condition? |
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| Which fundamental rule involves one pinpointing specific behaviors that you will or won’t enforce? |
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| What type of enforcer is attention seen as? |
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| For what reason does behavior such as attending occur? |
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| Because it has been reinforced |
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| If a child is throwing a tamper tantrum and being attended to then what is the reinforcer? |
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| What idea indicates that a response will occur more frequently if a reinforcer or an increased in a reinforcer has immediately followed it in the past? |
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| What term is used to describe the immediate presentation of a reinforcer resulting in an increased frequency of that response? |
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| Reinforcement Contingency |
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| What term means “to be caused by the response or the behavior”? |
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| What refers to the decreased effect of reinforcement and punishment procedure decrease as the delay between the response and outcome increase |
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| What idea contends that reinforcers and aversive conditions delayed more than 60 seconds have little or no reinforcing affect? |
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| What term refers to one’s dependence on something? |
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| What term is used to describe the event that is not dependent on anything? |
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| What are the 3 components of behavior contingency? |
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| 1. Occasional Response, 2. Respond, 3. Outcome |
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| What term refers to someone calling a process or activity a thing? |
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| What term refers to inferring entity which is just a label for a controlling process? |
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| What error are psychologists committing when they use the term personality? |
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| What term refers to an internal entity which is just a label for the behavior? |
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| When the criteria for measurement are not accessible to more than one person what concept is being examined? |
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| What is inter-observer reliability? |
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| Objective measures that allow independent observers to reliably agree on their observations and measurements. |
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| What term is being viewed if one believes a behavior I always a mere symptom of an underlying psychological condition? |
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| What is the main difference between the medical model and the behavioral model? |
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| Medical Model ignores the power of Reinforcers |
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| What is the author’s main issue with all instances of the medical model? |
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| Believes they are all circular |
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| What are six words to stay away (don’t say rule) from when attempting to explain behavior? |
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| 1.expected, 2.associates, 3.trying, 4.wants, 5.knows, 6.figures out |
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| What is the term to refer to the phase of an experiment or intervention where the behavior is measured in the absence of an intervention? |
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| What is the process or procedure of reinforcing a response? |
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| What term would describe what occurred as the boy told the dirty joke and his sister mouth fell open, her head jerked back, her face turned red and her whole body stiffened? |
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| What 3 terms would refer to a reinforcer? |
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| 1.thing, 2.event, 3.change of conditions |
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| What is a simple definition for reinforcement? |
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| The delivery of the reinforcer and the resulting change in behavior |
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| What is another definition for an aversive condition? |
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| Something the behaver does not like |
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| Why can’t doing dishes work as an aversive condition? |
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| What was the basic principle of Yealland’s procedure? |
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| Removal of the aversive condition reinforced Ed’s leg movement. |
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| What is the definition for aversive condition (negative reinforcer)? |
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| Any stimulus, event, or condition whose termination immediately following a response increases the frequency of that response. |
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| What are the differences between the two types of aversive conditions? |
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| Stimulus, event or condition terminating |
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| What is the immediate response-contingent removal of an aversive condition resulting in an increased frequency of that response? |
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| When termination reinforces an escape response? |
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| Primary diagnostic method in ABA |
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| What is the purpose of the Functional Assessment? |
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| Find the function of the target behavior |
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| What is mean by ABA;s term function? |
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| The removal of aversive or delivery of a positive behavior |
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| Why does ABA look at function rather than form? |
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| Label behaviors tell you what they look like; function tells you what is reinforcing the behavior |
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| Indirect Functional assessment |
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| What is researching academic records or disciplined records? |
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| Indirect functional assessment |
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| What is a Descriptive Analysis and collection of data while manipulating stimuli, events or conditions while observing? |
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| Direct Functional assessment |
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| A play condition is an example for what term? |
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| Tangible/Attention Condition |
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| reinforced by tangible item/attention? |
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| If it happens during the attention condition of the behavior? |
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| The function is the behavior is reinforced by attention |
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| If it happens during the tangible condition of the behavior? |
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| The function is the behavior is reinforced by tangible |
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| If it happens during the play condition of the behavior? |
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| Allows you to custom tailor your interventions to that specific clients needs, individual treatment plan, use of reinforcement rather than punishment, behaviors occurring at low rates are difficult to assess. |
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| Time consuming, High level of expertise, Problems might get increased |
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| What condition does the behavior occur in the most? |
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| Seen by the graph in which it occurs the most |
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| If it occurs the most in the demand condition? |
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| What are the basic reinforcement contingencies? |
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| Differential Reinforcement Alternative |
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| replacement of an inappropriate response with a specific appropriate response that produces the same reinforcing outcome. |
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| assessment of the contingencies responsible for behavioral problems |
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