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Psychology
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05/02/2015

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Term
directly proportional
Definition
Intensity and quality of treatment is _____ to recovery effects.
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Instructor Initiated
Definition
The defining component of Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT)
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reinforcers, or rewards
Definition
Embedded in DTT are _____ in a very prototypical way.
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small steps
Definition
Over time, you can see success systematically in very ____ in DTT.
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table or cubby
Definition
The most common characteristic of DTT is that it takes place at a _____.
Term
behavior modification
Definition
Implementation of behavior change techniques (behaviorally based) without prior analysis of the behavior & the use of reinforcers to reward positive behavior.
Term
DTT
Definition
____ is behavior modification (most of the time)
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Learner Initiated
Definition
The defining component of Incidental Teaching
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setting
Definition
The ____ in which Incidental Teaching takes place does not define the teaching procedure.
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"The Right to Effective Behavioral Treatment"
Definition
Lovaas coauthored this article which was published in JABA and was about the ethics of ABA and was a seminal article for the field.
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self-correct
Definition
"The Right to Effective Behavioral Treatment" was an attempt to _____ the field of Behavior Analysis.
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The Right to a Therapeutic Environment
Definition
- Safe humane practices that attend to individual needs
- Warns against a cookie cutter approach (behavior modification)
- Access to instructional and leisure materials
- Not only teaching Academic skills, but also leisure skills
- Should incorporate choice and preferences of the individual into that environment
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The Right to Services Whose Overriding Goal is Personal Welfare
Definition
- Independence
- Functional skills (useful skills) --> improve the welfare of the individual
- Oversight by Human Resource Committees
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The Right to Treatment by a competent behavior analyst
Definition
- Spoke to the qualifications of the behavior analyst
- Minimum educational requirements
- Supervised or mentored experience
- Credentials, when applicable (because credentialing of behavior analysts did not exist at the time the article was written)
- Supervision of the practitioners by doctoral level professionals (behavior analysts)
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The Right to Programs that Teach Functional Skills
Definition
- To get away from the practice of behavior modification techniques to increase skills that were not relevant
- Acquisition, maintenance and generalization of skills (not just acquisition)
- Reducing problematic behavior
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Functional Analysis
Definition
An experimental analysis which leads to an understanding of functional relations.
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Functional Relation
Definition
A causal relation between behavior and environment.
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The Right to Behavioral Assessment and Ongoing Evaluation
Definition
- Focuses on Functional Analysis of Target Behavior
- A person has the right to functional analysis prior to treatment
- Required practitioners to understand what they were doing before they implemented a procedure.
- Ongoing evaluation and ongoing assessment to evaluate progress, problems and treatment efficacy.
Term
ignoring
Definition
Common understanding equates extinction with _____, however they are not synonymous.
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1/4
Definition
In only ____ possibilities is ignoring actually an extinction procedure.
Term
Probe collection
Definition
Less data points than a full analysis
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The Right to the Most Effective Treatment Procedures
Definition
- This is where talk about aversive stimulation or the possibility of restrictive techniques possibility of restrictive techniques is addressed
- Aversive stimulation is common and there is nothing wrong with it in isolation
- Techniques should be the least restrictive and most effective and sometimes these two don't go hand in hand.
Term
Behaviorism
Definition
The philosophical branch of behavior analysis in that it is the philosophy of behavior
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lawful
Definition
Behaviorism states that all behavior is ____, that is there's no such thing as chaotic behavior because there are laws/principles that govern it.
Term
predict
Definition
If we can understand the principles that govern behavior then we can _____ behavior and if we can control the principles then we can control behavior.
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determined
Definition
Behaviorism states that all behavior is _____, that is it has a cause that can be traced back to the individual's learning history. All behavior is logical, "everything happens for a reason".
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context
Definition
Behaviorism states that behavior occurs in a ____, that is the environment, and it can give us sufficient information to explain the behavior.
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Science of Behavior
Definition
The _____ describes those (experimental or analytic) endeavors aimed at understanding behavior.
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Behavior itself
Definition
_____ is the phenomenon of interest and the subject matter to be studied. Behavior analysis does not make use of cognitive structures/schemes such as personality, intelligence etc.
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observable
Definition
Behavior is ____, behavior analysis is interested in what we can see versus what we think is happening under the skin.
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observable environment
Definition
Behavior analysis is interested in the interrelation between the ____ and behavior.
Term
Empirical
Definition
Behavior analysis is _____, that is there is a reliance on data as the means for interpretation.
Term
Three-Term Contingency
Definition
The A-B-C's of behavior are also known as the _____.
Term
sD
Definition
Discriminative Stimulus
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R
Definition
Response
Term
sP
Definition
Punishing Stimulus
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sR
Definition
Reinforcing Stimulus
Term
Ext
Definition
Extinction (Cessation of sR)
Term
consequences
Definition
Operant behavior is controlled by ____ (voluntary behavior)
Term
operant behavior
Definition
Behavior analysis focuses a majority of the time on _____.
Term
Respondent Behavior
Definition
Looks at antecedent-behavior (A-B) relations (reflexive relations)
Term
habituation
Definition
What appears as satiation in operant behavior could be regarded as _____ is respondent behavior.
Term
Positive Reinforcement (sR+)
Definition
Food, Praise, Rewards, Money, Attention
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Positive Punisher (sP+)
Definition
Reprimands, corrective feedback, bad grade, stern look, evil eye, getting slapped, ammonia, sound burst, water mist in the face
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Negative Punisher (sP-)
Definition
Loss of a reinforcer contingent on behavior (i.e., a time-out), response cost procedure (i.e., lose you tokens upon problem behavior)
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Negative Reinforcement (sR-)
Definition
a break, escape for work, homework pass
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Premack Principle
Definition
_____ states that a high rate behavior can be used as a reinforcer for a lower rate behavior.
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