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| A schedule of reinforcement is a rule that establishes the _____ that a specific occurrence of a behavior will produce reinforcement. |
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| Only selected occurrences of behavior produce reinforcement with an _____ of reinforcement. |
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| Applied behavior analysts use continuous reinforcement during the _____ of learning and for strengthening behavior. |
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| Applied behavior analysts use intermittent reinforcement to _____. |
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| A fixed ratio schedule requires a _____ of responses before reinforcement is delivered. |
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| A variable ratio requires a _____ of responses before reinforcement is delivered. |
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| A fixed interval schedule provides reinforcement for the _____ following the elapse of a specific, constant duration of time since the last reinforced response. |
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| A variable interval schedule provides reinforcement for the first response following the elapse of _____ of time since the last reinforced response. |
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| When a limited hold is added to an interval schedule, reinforcement remains available for a _____ following the elapse of the FI or VI interval. |
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| Each basic schedule of reinforcement has unique _____ that determine the consistency of responding, the rate of responding, and performance during extinction. |
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| increasing the response ratio |
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| Applied behavior analysts often use one of two procedures to thin schedules of reinforcement. An existing schedule is thinned by gradually _____ or by gradually increasing the duration of the time interval. |
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| Applied behavior analysts should use _____ of schedule changes during thinning and ongoing evaluation of the learner's performance to adjust the thinning process and avoid the loss of previous improvements. |
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| _____ can result from abrupt increases in ratio requirements when moving from denser to thinner reinforcement schedules. |
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| DRH and DRL are variations of ratio schedules and specify that reinforcement will b delivered contingent on responses occurring _____ response rates. |
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| The differential reinforcement of diminishing rates schedule provides reinforcement at the end of a predetermined interval when the number of responses is _____. |
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| In differential reinforcement of diminishing rates, the criterion for the number of responses is _____ across time intervals based on the individual's performance. |
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| Progressive schedules of reinforcement systematically thin each successive reinforcement opportunity _____ of the participant's behavior. |
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| Continuous reinforcement, the four simple intermittent schedules of reinforcement, differential reinforcement of rates of responding, and extinction, when combined, produce _____ schedules of reinforcement. |
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| Compound schedules of reinforcement include concurrent, multiple, chined, mixed, _____, alternative, and conjunctive. |
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