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| Behavioral cusps are behaviors or changes in behavior that bring individuals intocontact with new contingencies that have broad consequences |
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| Refers to the notion that once a client’s behavior has been devel-oped, it may become entrenched in and maintained (i.e., trapped) by the social sys-tem of available reinforcers in the client’s everyday environment. That is, behaviorsinitially developed through special contingency arrangements may be maintained byordinary, naturally occurring contingencies after the program has been withdrawn. |
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| Refers to a behavior that when altered will influence other behaviors. Sometimes referred to as a pivotal behavior that leads to changes inother behaviors. For example, training a shy person to enter group activities proba- bly will lead to other behaviors such as talking, making eye contact, and interact-ing in novel ways. Used in this book as interchangeable with pivotal response. |
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| naturally occurring reinforcers |
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| Uncontrived reinforcing events that are usuallyavailable as part of the environment. Such events include attention, praise, comple-tion of an activity, and mastery of a task. |
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| Refers to changes in behaviors that are not focused ondirectly. Originally, the term focused on whether the behaviors that changed weresimilar to those focused on in the intervention program following some gradient of similarity or resemblance. The term is used more loosely now to refer to changes in behaviors that were not focused on directly. The term is merely descriptive to denotethat there were additional changes in behavior. |
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| the extent to which a leaner continues to perform a behavior after a portion or all of the intervention responsible for the initial change in behavior has been removed |
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| training the general case |
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| A strategy designed to ensure that behaviors are per-formed across a variety of stimulus conditions (e.g., in different situations, in thepresence of different persons) in which the behaviors will be required. The strategyrequires that variations of different stimulus conditions be included during training. |
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Carryover of the behavior change to settings or places other than the setting in which the intervention was conducted. For example, while the program is in effect in one classroom, will the improvements (e.g., homework completion) be evident in other settings where the program has not been implemented?
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