Summary ABA Flashcards

Abative Effect - answer-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 - answer-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 - answer-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 - answer-Environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest. Antecedent Intervention - answer-A behavior change strategy that manipulates contingency independent antecedent stimuli (motivating operations) Applied Behavior Analysis - answer-The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement of behavior. Arbitrary Stimulus Class - answer-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 - answer-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 - answer-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 - answer-Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others.