ABA Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions

ABA Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions Abative Effect - Answer️️ -a decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation. Ex: Food ingestion abates (decreases the current frequency of) behavior that has been reinforced by food. Abolishing Operation - Answer️️ -A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event. Ex: the reinforcing effectiveness of food is abolished as a result of food ingestion. Adjunctive Behavior / Schedule-Induced Behavior - Answer️️ -Behavior that occurs as a collateral effect of a schedule of periodic reinforcement for other behavior: time filling or interim activities (doodling, idle talking, smoking, drinking) that are induced by schedules of reinforcement during times when reinforcement is unlikely to be delivered. Antecedent - Answer️️ -Environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest. Antecedent Intervention - Answer️️ -A behavior change strategy that manipulates contingency independent antecedent stimuli (motivating operations) Applied Behavior Analysis - Answer️️ -The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and ©SOPHIABENNETT_2024/2025 EXAM SERIES Monday, September 2, 2024 9:52 AM Page | 2 experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement of behavior. Arbitrary Stimulus Class - Answer️️ -Antecedent stimuli that evoke the same response but do not resemble each other in physical form or share a relational aspect such as bigger or under (ex: peanuts, cheese, coconut milk are members of the same arbitrary stimulus class if the evoke the response "sources of protein".) Artifact - Answer️️ -An outcome or result that appears to exist because of the way it is measured but in fact does not correspond to what actually occurred. Autoclitic - Answer️️ -a secondary verbal operant in which some aspect of a speakers own verbal behavior functions as an Sd or MO for additional speaker verbal behavior. The autoclitic relation can be thought of as verbal behavior about verbal behavior. Automatic Reinforcement - Answer️️ -Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others. Automacity of Reinforcement - Answer️️ -Refers to the fact that behavior is modified by its consequences irrespective of the person's awareness; a person does not have to recognize or verbalize the relation between her behavior and a reinforcing consequence, or even know a consequence has occurred, for reinforcement to work. Aversive Stimulus - Answer️️ -In general an unpleasant or noxious stimulus, more technically, a stimulus change or condition that functions (a) to evoke a behavior that has terminated it in the past; (b) as a punisher when presented following behavior, and/or (c) as a reinforcer when withdrawn following behavior. ©SOPHIABENNETT_2024/2025 EXAM SERIES Monday, September 2, 2024 9:52 AM Page | 3 Backward Chaining - Answer️️ -...Treatment procedure in which a trainer completes all but the last behavior in a chain, which is performed by the learner, who then receivesreinforcement for completing the chain. When learner shows competence in performing the final step in the chain, the trainer performs al but the last two behaviors in the chain, the learner emits the final two steps to compelte the chain, and reinforcement is delivered. Back up reinforcers - Answer️️ -...Tangible objects, activiites or privledges that serve as reinforcers and that can be purchased with tokens Baseline - Answer️️ -condition of an experiment in which the independent variable is not present Behavior - Answer️️ -...activity of living organisms. A portion of a humans interaction with their environment that is characterized by detectable displacement in space though time of some part of the organism and that results in a measurable change in at least one aspect of the environment. Behavior Altering Effect - Answer️️ -...an alteration in the current frequency of a behavior that has been reinforced by a stimulus that has been altered in effectiveness by the same motivating operation Behavioral Contrast - Answer️️ -... a phenomenon in which 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 ©SOPHIABENNETT_2024/2025 EXAM SERIES Monday, September 2, 2024 9:52 AM Page | 4 Behavioral Cusp - Answer️️ -...a behavior that has sudden and dramatic consequences that extend well beyond the idiosyncratic change itself because it exposes the person to new environments, reinforcers, contingencies, responses, and stimulus controls. Behavioral Momentum - Answer️️ -A metaphor to describe a rate of responding and its resistance to change following an alteration in reinforcement conditions. Behaviorism - Answer️️ -The philosophy of a science of behavior there are various forms of behaviorism. Component Analysis - Answer️️ -...an experiment des