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| Number of responses per unit of time. |
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| A measure of the total extent of time in which a behavior occurs. |
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| Elapsed time from the onset of a stimulus to the initiation of a response. |
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| The elapsed time between two successive responses. |
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| Dimensions of Applied Behavior Analysis (Naming) |
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| Behavioral, Applied, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Analytic, Generality, Effective. |
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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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| Investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the subject. |
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| The written description of procedures used in the study is sufficiently complete and detailed to enable others to replicate it. |
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| Behavior change interventions are derived from basic principles of behavior. |
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| Demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurence of the behavior--that is, if a functional relation is demonstrated. |
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| Produces behavior change that lasts over time, appear in other environments, or spread to other behaviors. |
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| Improves behavior sufficiently to produce meaningful results for the participant. |
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| When a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior under similar conditions. |
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| When a behavior is followed immediately by the termination of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior under similar conditions. |
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| Any physical change that affects an organism through its receptor cells. |
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| A group of stimuli that share specific common elements along formal, temporal, and/or functional dimensions. |
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| A group of responses of varying topography, all of which produce the same effect on the environment. |
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| When a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that decreases the future frequency of the behavior under similar conditions. |
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| Reinforcement that occurs independently of the social mediation of others. |
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| When a behavior is followed immediately by the removal of a stimulus that decreases the future frequency of the behavior under similar conditions. |
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| The differential reinforcement of successive approximations to a terminal behavior. |
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| When a well-controlled experiment reveals that a specific change in one event can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event. |
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| To discontinue reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior resulting in a decrease in the frequency of the behavior. |
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| Making the opportunity to engage in a high-probability behavior contingent on the occurrence of a low-frequency behavior will function as reinforcement for the low-frequency behavior. |
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| A system where participants earn generalized conditioned reinforces as an immediate consequence for specific behaviors and exchange them later for backups. |
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| A previously neutral stimulus that functions as a reinforcer because of prior pairing with one or more reinforcers. |
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| A stimulus change that functions as reinforcement even though the learner has no particular learning history with it. |
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| Variable Interval Schedule of Reinforcement |
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| A schedule of reinforcement that provides reinforcement for the first correct response following the elapse of variable durations of time occurring in a random or unpredictable order. |
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| Fixed Interval Schedule of Reinforcement |
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| A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is delivered for the first response emitted following the passage of a fixed duration of time. |
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| Variable Ratio Schedule of Reinforcement |
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| A schedule of reinforcement requiring a varying number of responses for reinforcement. |
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| Fixed Ratio Schedule of Reinforcement |
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| A schedule of reinforcement requiring a fixed number of responses for reinforcement. |
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| A stimulus change that acts as a punisher even though the learner has no particular learning history with it. |
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| A previously neutral stimulus that functions as a punisher because of prior pairing with one or more punishers. |
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| When a behavior occurs more frequently in the presence of a stimulus than in its absence. |
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| A stimulus in the presence of which a particular response will be reinforced or punished. |
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| Verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity with the response. |
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| Verbal operant that is evoked by a motivating operation and specifies its own reinforcer. |
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| Verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement. |
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| Verbal operant that is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus and that does not have point-to-point correspondence with that verbal stimulus. |
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| Differential Reinforcement of an Alternative Behavior - stopping the reinforcement for an existing behavior while reinforcing a desirable alternative behavior. |
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| Differential Reinforcement of an Incompatible Behavior -stopping the reinforcement for an existing behavior while reinforcing a behavior that is incompatible. |
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| Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior – reinforcement is contingent on the absence of the problem behavior during a specific time. |
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| When a change in one component of a multiple schedule that increases or decreases the rate of responding on that component is accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule. |
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| The allocation of responses to choices available on concurrent schedules of reinforcement are distributed in proportions that match the rates of reinforcement received from each choice alternative. |
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| The tendency of behavior to persist following changes in environmental conditions. |
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| After an Sd is delivered, an immediate prompt is provided that decreases the opportunity for incorrect choice selection. |
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| The behavioral contingencies in the presence of one stimulus affect the frequency of the response in the presence of another stimulus. |
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| The extent to which a learner emits untrained responses that are functionally equivalent to the trained target behavior. |
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| A behavior that has consequences that extend well beyond the specific change itself because it exposes the person to new environments, reinforcers, contingencies, responses, and stimulus controls. |
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| An environmental variable that (a) alters the reinforcing or punishing effectiveness of a stimulus,; and (b) alters the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus. |
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| The process of breaking a complex skill of series of behaviors into smaller, teachable, units. |
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| A sequence of discrete responses where each response produces a stimulus change that simultaneously serves as a conditioned reinforcer for the response it produced and an Sd for the next response in the sequence. |
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| A procedure for transferring stimulus control in which features of an antecedent stimulus controlling a behavior are gradually changed to a new stimulus while maintaining the current behavior. |
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