BCBA Vocabulary (All Correct)

Abative Effect correct answers 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. Abolishing Operation (AO) correct answers A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, objects, or event. Adjunctive Behavior/Schedule-Induced Behavior correct answers Behavior that occurs as a collateral effect of a schedule of periodic reinforcement for other behavior Antecedent correct answers An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest. Antecedent Intervention correct answers A behavior change strategy that manipulates contingency-independent antecedent stimuli (motivating operations). Applied Behavior Analysis correct answers 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 in behavior. Arbitrary Stimulus Class correct answers Antecedent stimuli that evoke the same response but do not resemble each other in physical form or share a relational aspect. Artifact correct answers An outcome or result that appears to exist because of the way it is measured but in fact does not correspond to what actually happened. Autoclitic correct answers A secondary verbal operant in which some aspect of a speaker's own verbal behavior functions as an SD or an MO for an additional speaker verbal behavior. Automatic Reinforcement correct answers Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others. Automaticity (of reinforcement) correct answers Refers to the fact that behavior is modified by its consequences irrespective of the person's awareness. Aversive Stimulus correct answers 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has terminated it in the past; (b) as a punisher when presented following behavior, and/or (c) as a reinforcer when withdrawn following behavior. Back-up Reinforcers correct answers Tangible objects, activities, or privileges that serve as reinforcers and that can be purchased with tokens.