Rachel's Cards

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MO vs. SD

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Both are antecedent stimuli, but SD’s are correlated with reinforcer availability whereas MOs actually change reinforcer value but not reinforcer availability

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Stimulus Class

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A group of stimuli that share common elements among formal, temporal or functional dimensions

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Generalization

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The process by which operant behavior occurs in the presence of novel antecedent stimuli that are physically similar to the original SD

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Establishing Operation

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Antecedent variable that increases the effectiveness of a reinforcer or punisher

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Behavior

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Anything an organism does; any action of an organism that can be brought under respondent or operant control

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Tact

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Verbal operant that is controlled by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and is reinforced by a generalized conditioned reinforcer.

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Mand

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Verbal operant that is controlled by a motivating operation and is reinforced by the delivery of a specific stimulus

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Negative Reinforcement

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Removal of a stimulus contingent on a behavior that results in an increase in the frequency of future probability of that behavior

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Negative Punishment

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Removal of a stimulus contingenton a behavior that results in the decrease of frequency or future probability of that behavior

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Intraverbal

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A verbal operant that is controlled by a verbal discriminative stimulus, does not have point-to-point correspondence and is reinforced by a generalized conditioned reinforcer

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Positive Punishment

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Presentation of a stimuli contingent on a behavior that results in a decrease in the frequency or future probability of that behavior

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Positive Reinforcement

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Presentation of a stimulus contingent on a behavior that increases the frequency or future probability of that behavior

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Abolishing Operation

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Antecedent variable that decreases the effectiveness of a reinforce or punisher

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Extinction

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Termination of a response-reinforcer relation through the discontinuation of reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior

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Echoic

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Verbal operant that is controlled by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with the response and is reinforced by a generalized conditioned reinforcer

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Stimulus

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Any event, internal or externa lto the organism, that can effect behavior

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Functional Response Class

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A group of responses that produce the same effect on the environment

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Discriminative Stimulus

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Antecedent stimulus that evokes the occurrence of an operant behavior because in its presence a specific response or set of responses is associated with more frequent reinforcement than in the absence of the SD

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Shaping

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Differential reinforcement of successive approximations to a terminal behavior

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Motivating Operation

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Environmental variable that alters (increases or decreases) the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of astimulus and alters (increases or decreases) the frequency of behavior that has been previously reinforced or punished by that stimulus

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Discrimination

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A process by which operant behavior occurs only in the presence of the original SD

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Chaining

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Teaching procedure used to train a behavior chain involving a sequence of discrete responses, each associated with a particular stimulus condition

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Stimulus Control

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A situation in which frequency, latency or duration of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus

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Applied

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Investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the subject

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Behavioral

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Entails precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of improvement and documents that it was the subject’s behavior that changed

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Analytic

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Demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior that is, if a functional relation is demonstrated

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Generality

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Produces behavior changes that last over time, appear in other environments, or spread to other behaviors

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Effective

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Improves behavior sufficiently to produce practical results for the participant/client

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Conceptually Systematic

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Behavior change interventions are derived from basic principles of behavior

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Technological

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The written description of all procedures used in the study is sufficiently complete and detailed to enable others to replicate it

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Determinism

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The assumption that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur as a result of other events

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Empiricism

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The objective observation of the phenomena of interest

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Replication

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Repeating experiments to determine the reliability and usefulness of findings

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Experimentation

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The controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomena of interest under two or more different conditions in which only one factor at a time differs from one condition to another