Aba Safmeds

A-B-A DESIGN - answer-Withdrawal design; considerations: end on baseline A-B-A-B DESIGN - answer-Reversal design; an experiment reintroducing the intervention enables the replication of treatment effects, which strengthens the demonstration of experimental control. Considerations: end on intervention phase ABOLISHING OPERATION - answer-A motivating operation that TEMPORARILY decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus thereby having an ABATIVE EFFECT on behavior ACCURACY - answer-The extent to which observed values, the data produced by measuring an event, match the true state, or true values, of the event as it exists in nature ALTERNATING TREATMENT DESIGN - answer-the rapid alternation of two or more distinct treatments while their effects on the target behavior are measured ANECDOTAL OBSERVATION - answer-a form of direct, continuous observation in which the observer records a descriptive, temporally sequenced account of all behavior(s) of interest and the antecedent conditions and consequences for those behaviors as those events occur in the client's natural environment ANTECDENT - answer-An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest. AUTOMATIC REINFORCEMENT - answer-Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others (e.g., scratching an insect bite relieves the itch). AUTOMATICITY OF REINFORCEMENT - answer-behavior is modified by its consequences irrespective of the person's awareness AVERSIVE STIMULUS - answer-an unpleasant or noxious stimulus AVOIDANCE CONTINGENCY - answer-contingency in which a response prevents or postpones the presentation of a stimulus- EX: opening an umbrella prevents presentation of rain BASELINE LOGIC - answer-the experimental reasoning inherent in single subject experimental designs; entails three elements: prediction, verification, and replication. BASELINE - answer-A condition of an experiment in which the independent variable is not present; data obtained during baseline are the basis for determining the effects of the independent variable/basis of comparison a control condition that does not necessarily mean the absence of instruction or treatment, only the absence of a specific independent variable of experimental interest. BEHAVIOR - answer-the activity of living organisms, everything that an organism does. " that portion of an organsim's interaction with its environment that is characterized by detectable displacement in space through time of some part of the organism and results in a measurable change in at least one aspect of the environment" B