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| An observed suppression in food consumption and increase in physical activity following food restriction |
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| Activity induced taste aversion |
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| A distinctive taste followed by the physiological consequences of wheel running (US) results in future avoidance of the taste |
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| Applied behavior analysis |
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| Focuses on the application of principles, methods, and procedures of behavior analysis to address socially significant behavior problems |
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| The extent to which a new behavior persists after the original contingencies that developed the behavior have been removed |
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| The teaching of new behavior that, once established, is captured and controlled by natural contingencies of reinforcement—the contingencies in everyday life. |
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| A behavioral plan of action that is negotiated between one individual and another that includes objective statements of target responses, consequences that follow different actions, and long-term goals. |
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| Behavior-change programs that target health-related activities (e.g., following special diets, self-examination for early symptoms of disease, exercising, and taking medication as prescribed). |
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| Changing criterion design |
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| A research design where the requirements for a dimension of a behavior is systematically adjusted to evaluate the extent to which that dimension behavior changes in accordance with the adjusted requirement |
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| The ability to learn that food taste predicts the amount of calories ingested |
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| Contingency management (CM) |
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| Generally, the use of operant principles to arrange contingencies to promote desired behaviors and deter undesired behaviors. Often used to refer specifically to interventions designed to increase abstinence from drug use, medication compliance, and retention in treatment programs |
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| Observation procedures in which all instances of the behavior during the observation period are detected or recorded |
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| Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) |
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| Reinforcement delivered for a specific behavior that is not a designated target behavior |
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| Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI) |
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| Reinforcement delivered for a specific behavior that cannot occur at the same time as a designated target behavior |
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| Differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) |
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| Reinforcement delivered for performing any behavior other than a designated target operant; in practice, the reinforcer is delivered after the target does not occur during some specified period |
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| Discontinuous measurement |
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| Observation procedures in which all instances of the behavior during the observation period are not necessarily detected or recorded |
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| A measurement procedure where how long a behavior occurs is recorded |
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| Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) |
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| The delivery of a behavioral intervention for 40+ hours a week starting early in life [usually to address behavioral excesses and deficits associated with autism spectrum disorder] |
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| Accurate performance that occurs at high rates and/or with short latencies and that it well retained after long periods without practice |
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| The extent to which one can feel confident that any observed changes in the dependent variable were caused by changes in the independent variable |
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A measurement procedure that divides a given observation period into intervals which are scored according to some rule about the occurrence of behavior
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| When biological or psychological processes that change over time in client or subject co-occur with the manipulation of the independent variable and serve as an alternative explanation for any observed changes in the dependent variable; a threat to internal validity |
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| A research design that demonstrates experimental control by manipulating the independent variable systematically after different numbers of data points collected across different subjects, different, behaviors, or different settings. |
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| Partial interval recording |
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| A measurement procedure that divides a given observation period into intervals and an interval is scored if a response (or part of a response) occurs at any point during that interval |
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| Personalized system of instruction |
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| A teaching method developed by Fred S. Keller that is based on principles of operant conditioning and involves students receiving reinforcment for demonstrating mastery of small course units at their own pace. |
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| A method of systematic instruction that encourages students and teachers to count, time, and graph specified target behaviors and to revise instructional procedures based on the charted data. |
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| Reliability of observation |
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| The amount of agreement among observers who independently record the same behavior. |
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| When the effects of reinforcing a target response spread to other similar responses increasing their frequency/probability |
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| The selection of a larger-later reinforcer over a smaller-sooner reinforcer |
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| When samples of behavior are observed/measured at specified times over a long period, as opposed to observing/measuring continuously during the long period. |
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| A measurement procedure that divides a given observation period into intervals and an interval is scored if a behavior occurs without ceasing throughout the entire interval |
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