ABA Terms with their Definitions

ABA Terms with their Definitions ABA Reversal - Correct Answer️️ -A basic single-subject design in which baseline measurements (A) are contrasted with measurements during treatment (B) across conditions which alternate to determine causal effects. adjunctive behavior - Correct Answer️️ -Excessive (possibly arbitrary) behaviors that occur between trials or between reinforcers. analytical pragmatism - Correct Answer️️ -A set of principles and philosophies that reflect a commitment to practical, behavioral methods of assessment and analysis. appetitive stimulus - Correct Answer️️ -A positively reinforcing stimulus. applied behavior analysis - Correct Answer️️ -The use of basic behavior principles to analyze and solve practical problems. aversion therapy - Correct Answer️️ -A Pavlovian procedure in which stimuli that elicit inappropriate behaviors are paired with an aversive stimulus (shock, emetics, ammonia) to produce strong conditioned responses (nausea, fear, etc). Used to treat child molestation, alcohol abuse, etc. aversive stimulus - Correct Answer️️ -A noxious or unpleasant stimulus. TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 2/15 backward chaining - Correct Answer️️ -A method used to train chained performances in which the last behavior in the chain is trained first; then each preceding behavior is gradually introduced. baseline - Correct Answer️️ -The base rate of behavior, before intervention, against which the efficacy of experimental manipulations is compared. behavior analysis - Correct Answer️️ -A comprehensive experimental approach to the study of behavior with the objective of investigating, identifying, describing,and using the general principles and laws which govern behavior. behavior trapping - Correct Answer️️ -Teaching of a new behavior that becomes trapped (or maintained) through natural contingencies of reinforcement. behavioral medicine - Correct Answer️️ -A behavior change program that targets health-related activities such as patient compliance, taking medicines, exercise regimens, etc.. behavioral repertoire - Correct Answer️️ -The full set of behaviors that an organism does. Everything that an organism does, including both overt and covert actions, like thinking. belongingness - Correct Answer️️ -The idea that a subject's evolutionary history causes some responses and relationships to be more easily learned. changing criterion - Correct Answer️️ -A research design in which the rate of the target response is progressively changed (up or down). Used when the final level of the target TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 3/15 response is radically different from baseline and likely to resist change (Example: smoking). classical conditioning - Correct Answer️️ -A procedure in which a neutral stimulus (NS) comes to elicit a conditioned response (CR) as a result of being paired with an unconditioned stimulus (UCS). compound stimulus - Correct Answer️️ -A stimulus that is composed of several components. concurrent behavioral contingency - Correct Answer️️ -More than one contingency of reinforcement is in effect at the same time. conditioned emotional response - Correct Answer️️ -Suppression of a positively reinforced operant response by the presentation of a stimulus that has previously been classically conditioned with an aversive stimulus. conditioned reinforcer - Correct Answer️️ -A stimulus that has acquired reinforcing properties through its association with other reinforcing stimuli. constructional approach to behavior change - Correct Answer️️ -A training system that focuses on skill-building to teach individual requisite skills needed for appropriate behaviors that can later be substituted for inappropriate behaviors. context of behavior - Correct Answer️️ -The biological and experiential history of the organism combined with the contextual stimuli that are present when conditioning occurs. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 4/15 contingency trap - Correct Answer️️ -Unwanted behavior by the subject occurs frequently because it is reinforced through negative attention while temporary relief from the unwanted behavior reinforces the experimenter's use of negative attention. contingency-shaped behavior - Correct Answer️️ -Operant behavior which is directly under the control of the contingencies, as opposed to rule-governed behavior. continuous reinforcement - Correct Answer️️ -A reinforcement schedule in which every response is reinforced. correspondence training - Correct Answer️️ -A training method which focuses on teaching subjects to have a high correlation between a verbal commitment (Say) and the actual behavior (Do). dependent variable - Correct Answer️️ -What is measured in an experiment - in behavior analysis, it is always the behavior of the subject. deprivation - Correct Answer️️ -The procedure of restricting or limiting access to a reinforcing event or stimulus. differential reinforcement of high rates - Correct Answer️️ -A particular reinforcement schedule in which reinforcement is delivered for rates of responding above a specified criterion. differential reinforcement of incompatible behaviors - Correct Answer️️ -A particular reinforcement schedule in which reinforcement is delivered for behaviors which are incompatible with the target response. TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024 5/15 differential reinforcement of low rates - Correct Answer️️ -A particular reinforcement schedule in which reinforcement is delivered for rates of responding below a specified criterion. differential reinforcement of other behaviors - Correct Answer️️ -A particular reinforcement schedule in which reinforcement is delivered for behaviors other than the target response. discrete trials procedure - Correct Answer️️ -Isolating and teaching a specific task to an individual by repeatedly presenting the task to the individual across various trials. Responses are recorded for each trial and each successful response is usually reinforced. discrimination - Correct Answer️️ -A form of stimulus control in which the subject responds differentially to stimuli that share share too few relevant features. displacement behavior - Correct Answer️️ -Behavior which is irrelevant, incongruous or out of context which arises when consummatory b