ABA Exam Study Guide with Complete
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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 ...
Backward Chaining - Answer✔️✔️-...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 - Answer✔️✔️-...Tangible objects, activiites or privledges that serve
as reinforcers and that can be purchased with tokens
Baseline - Answer✔️✔️-condition of an experiment in which the independent variable is
not present
Behavior - Answer✔️✔️-...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 - Answer✔️✔️-...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 - Answer✔️✔️-... 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
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