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| An antecedent that includes a person to perform a behavior that otherwise does not occur |
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| The procedure of providing antecedents that evoke a target behavior |
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| Gradually reducing the strength of a prompt |
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| Any event in a persons environment that can be observed |
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| A behavior that is influenced by its consequences |
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| Applied Behavior Analysis |
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| The attempt to solve behavior problems by providing antecedents and/or consequences that change the behavior |
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| The study of the functional relations between behavior and environmental events |
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1. identify target behavior
2. identify functional relations
3. identify an effective intervention |
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| Process of testing hypothesis about the functional relations among antecedents, targeted behavior and consequences |
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| Behavior is a function of its consequences |
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| When a reinforcement undermines the intervention |
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| Tendency for a reinforced behavior to occur less after in situations in which it has not been reinforced |
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| An event that when made contingent on a behavior, increases or maintain the frequencies of that behavior |
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| The process of providing consequences for a behavior that increases or maintain the frequency of that behavior |
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| Recording each and every occurrence of a behavior during a prescribes period |
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| Recording whether a behavior occurs during each of a series of short intervals w/in an observed period |
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| A reinforcing event in which something is added following the behavior |
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| A reinforcing event in which something is removed following a behavior |
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| Reinforces that are NOT dependent on their association w/ other reinforces |
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| Reinforces that ARE dependent on their association w/ other reinforces |
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| Reinforces that have been arranged by someone for the purpose of modifying behavior |
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| Reinforces that have NOT been arranged by someone for the purpose of modifying behavior |
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| The behavior to be changed by intervention |
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Tendency for one event to vary in a regular way with 1+ other events
X + Y Effect each other |
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| Anything that a person does that can be observed |
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| If a behavior problem is solved w/o resolving the underlying psychological disorder, another problem will take its place |
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| Environmental event that occurs before a behavior |
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| All of the environmental events that have affected a persons behavior up to the present |
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| Inter-Observer Reliability |
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| A measure of the degree of agreement in a data tallies made by 2+ observers |
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| Single Case Experimental Design |
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Where the behavior of an individual is compared under experimental and control conditions
A is controlled
B+ is experiment |
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| Alternating Treatments Design |
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| Single case experimental design in which 2+ interventions alternate systematically |
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| A single case design in which the effects of an intervention are recorded across situations behaviors or individuals |
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| A single case design in which baseline and intervention conditions are repeated w/ the same person |
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| Period where the behavior under study is recorded but w/o attempt to modify it |
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| Cumulative Frequency Graph |
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| Each data point indicated total number of times the behavior has occurred up to that point |
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| Data point indicates that number of times a behavior occurred at a particular time |
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| If you think that this stuff is easy then you are doing it wrong |
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| The view that behavior problems are merely symptoms of an underlying psychological disorder |
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| Environmental event that occurs after a behavior |
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| All the things an individual is capable of doing at any given moment |
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| Reflexive behavior (consequence) |
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| Behavior that can be observed by only the person doing it |
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| Behavior that can be observed by someone else |
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| The reinforcement of successive approximations of a target behavior |
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| A sequence of related behaviors, each of which provides the cue for the next, and the last of which produces a reinforcer |
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| The reinforcement of successive elements of a behavior chain |
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| A chaining procedure that begins w/ the 1st element in the chain and progress to the last element |
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