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A MO whose vie altering effect does NOT depend on learning history

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UMO

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A PRINCIPAL that states that making the opportunity to engage in a high probability behavior contingent on the occurrence of a law frequency behavior will function as reinforcement for the low frequency behavior

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Premack principle

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The practice of ruling out SIMPLE, logical explanations

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Parsimony

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A behavior effect associated with extinction in which the behavior SUDDENLY begins to occur after its frequency has decreased to its prereinforcement level or stopped entirely

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Spontaneous recovery

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An energy of change that affects an organism through its RECEPTOR cells

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Stimulus

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A verbal operant evoked by a NONVERBAL discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement

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Tact

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The process of BREAKING A COMPLEX SKILL or series of behaviors into smaller, teachable units, also refers to the results of this process

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Task analysis

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ACTION of an organism

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Topography

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Behavior objectives are completely identified DESCRIBED for anyone to understand

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Technological

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An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring PRIOR TO A BEHAVIOR of interest

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Antecedent

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The ACTIVITY of a living organism

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Behavior

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An ASSESSMENT that involves a full range of inquiry methods to identify probable antecedent and consequent controlling variables

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Behavior assessment

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A motivating operation whose value altering effect depends on a LEARNING history

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Cmo

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Social important or socially significant

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Applied

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An AGREEMENT between observer for data obtained by interval recording or time sampling measurement

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IOA

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A verbal operant involving a response that is EVOKED by a VERBAL discriminative stimulus that has point to point correspondence and formal similarity with the RESPONSE

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Echoic

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A measurement procedure for obtaining a TALLY OR COUNT of the number of times a behavior occurs

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Event recording

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The PHILOSOPHY of science of behavior

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Behaviorism

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A procedure in which the therapist PHYSICALLY intervenes as soon as the learner begins to emit a problem behavior to prevent completion of the targeted behavior

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Response blocking

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A GROUP OF RESPONSES of varying topography all of which produce the same effect on the environment

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Response class

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The CONTINGENT LOSS of reinforcers producing a decrease of the frequency of behavior, a form of punishment

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Response cost

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Two phase experimental design consisting of a pre-treatment baselind condition, followed by a treatment condition

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Ab design

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A stimulus change that FOLLOWS A BEHAVIOR of interest

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Consequence

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durable OVERTIME - appears in Multiple environments

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Generality

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An analysis of the purpose (FUNCTIONS) of problem behavior, wherein antecedent and consequences representing those in the persons natural routines are arranged with an experimental design- consisting of four conditions

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Functional analysis

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A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is delivered for the FIRST response emitted following the passage of a FIXED duration of time since the last response was reinforced

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Fixed interval

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The variable that is systematically manipulated by the researcher in an experiment to see whether changed in the INDEPENDENT variable produce reliable changes in the dependent variable

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Independent variable

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The OBJECTIVE observation of the phenomena of interest

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Empiricism

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The assumption that the universe is a LAWFUL and ORDERLY place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in a willy nilly accidental fashion

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Determinism

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The variable in an experiment measured to determine if it changes as a result of manipulations of the independent VARIABLE

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Dependent variable

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Behavior whose reinforcement is mediated by a listener, including both vocal and nonverbal VERBAL BEHAVIOR

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Verbal behavior

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A stimulus whose PRESENTATION or onset functions as REINFORCEMENT

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Positive reinforcement

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REINFOCING only the RESPONSES within a response class that meet a specific criterion along some dimension and placing all other responses in the class of extinction

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Differential reinforcement

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A CONTINGENCY in which a response TERMINATES an ongoing stimulus

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Escape contingency

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An INCREASE in the frequency of responding when an EXTINCTION procedure is initially implemented

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Extinction burst

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A stimulus whose TERMINATION functions as REINFORCEMENT

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Negative reinforcement

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When the experimenter has EXERCISED CONTROL over the behavior

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Analytic

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A verbal operant involving a RESPONSE that is evoked by BOTH the mo and a nonverbal stimulus

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Impure tact

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Future frequency is determined by its HISTORY OF CONSEQUENCES

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Operant behavior

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A punishment that occurs INDEPENDENT of the SOCIAL MEDIATION of others

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Automatic reinforcement

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A situation in which the FREQUENCY, LATENCY, DURATION, OR AMPLITUDE of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent STIMULUS

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Stimulus control

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VERBAL OPERANT that is EVOKED by a verbal discriminative stimulus and that DOES NOT have point to point correspondence with that verbal stimulus

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Intraverbal

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A stimulus change that DECREASES the FUTURE FREQUENCY OF BEHAVIOR that immediately precedes it

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Punisher

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Describes reinforcement that is DELIVERED ONLY AFTER the target behavior has occurred

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Contingent

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The state of an organism with respect to HOW MUCH TIME has CONSUMED or contacted a particular type of REINFORCER

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deprivation

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Occurs when a stimulus change immediately follows a response and INCREASES THE FUTURE FREQUENCY of behavior that immediately precedes it

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Reinforcement

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A behavior is followed immediately by the PRESENTATION of a stimulus that DECREASES the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions

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Positive punishment

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A response behavior is followed immediately by the REMOVAL of a stimulus that DECREASES the future frequency of similar responses under stimulus conditions

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Negative punishment

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A STIMULUS in the presence of which a given behavior has NOT PRODUCED REINFORCEMENT in the past

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Stimulus delta

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A decrease in the frequency of operant behavior presumed to be the result of continued CONTACT with or CONSUMPTION of a reinforcer that has followed the behavior

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Satiation