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| An experimental method that demonstrates causation by turning the treatment on and off |
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| Environmental events that temporarily decrease the effectiveness of behavioral consequences and reduce behaviors that result in those consequences |
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| The A-phase of a study that measures behavior before manipulation |
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| A behavioral baseline that varies with small increases in the independent variable |
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| Change in level [of data] |
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| The difference between the average value(s) of scores |
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| Conditioned-stimulus function |
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| An event or stimulus that has acquired a function based on respondent conditioning |
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| Other circumstances upon which environment–behavior relationships depend |
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| Contingency of reinforcement |
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| A definition of the relationship between the occasion, the operant class, and the consequences that follow the behavior |
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| The measured effect in an experiment |
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| Direct replication [in single-subject design] |
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| Manipulating the independent variable in the same way for each subject experiment |
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| The ability of an antecedent event to set the occasion for a behavior |
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| An event that sets the occasion for behavior |
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| to bring forth; the term used with respondents (CRs & URs), FAPs/MAPs and reaction chains |
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| To send forth; the term used with operant behavior |
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| Events and stimuli that influence behavior |
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| Environmental events that temporarily increase effectiveness of reinforcement or responses that produce reinforcement |
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| Focuses on what something does or the effect that it has |
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| Classifying behavior and analyzing the environment in terms of its effect |
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| The extent to which the results of a study apply to other subjects, situations, times, etc. |
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| The reinforcement contingencies that an organism has been exposed to during its lifetime, including the changes in behavior due to such exposure. |
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| Concepts that refer to processes or entities that have no physical basis and thus are not directly observable. They are often offered as explanations for behaviors but not accepted as such by behavior analysts. |
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| Immediacy (or latency) of change [of data] |
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| How quickly the data values of the scores change |
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| Condition changed by the experimenter |
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| An event that momentarily alters the effectiveness of behavioral consequences and the probability of behaviors that have produced them in the past |
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| Events that increase or maintain the rate of behavior when removed |
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| Behavior that perates on the environment to produce a change, effect, or consequence |
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| Events that increase or maintain the rate of behavior when present |
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| An event that follows a response and increases its frequency |
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| Otaining the same results from different subjects (within and across studies) |
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| Behavior that is elicited by a stimulus that precedes it |
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| Refers to all the topographic forms of the performance with a similar function |
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| A single individual is exposed to the independent variable |
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| Behavior that does not change appreciably over time |
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| Stimuli that vary physically but have a common effect on behavior |
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| When the occurrence of an event changes the behavior of an organism |
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| Focuses on the parts or elements of something and their organization |
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| Procedures that are different but are logically related to the original research |
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| Physical form or characteristics of the response |
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| Systematic rise or decline in the values of the scores |
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| The dispersion or spread among the values of scores |
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