ABA Terms Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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ABA Reversal
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
Excessive (possibly arbitrary) behaviors that occur between trials or betwe...
ABA Terms Questions and Correct
Answers the Latest Update
ABA Reversal
✓ 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
✓ Excessive (possibly arbitrary) behaviors that occur between trials or between
reinforcers.
analytical pragmatism
✓ A set of principles and philosophies that reflect a commitment to practical,
behavioral methods of assessment and analysis.
appetitive stimulus
✓ A positively reinforcing stimulus.
applied behavior analysis
✓ The use of basic behavior principles to analyze and solve practical problems.
aversion therapy
✓ 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.
✓ 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
✓ The base rate of behavior, before intervention, against which the efficacy of
experimental manipulations is compared.
behavior analysis
✓ 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
✓ Teaching of a new behavior that becomes trapped (or maintained) through natural
contingencies of reinforcement.
behavioral medicine
✓ A behavior change program that targets health-related activities such as patient
compliance, taking medicines, exercise regimens, etc..
✓ The full set of behaviors that an organism does. Everything that an organism does,
including both overt and covert actions, like thinking.
belongingness
✓ The idea that a subject's evolutionary history causes some responses and
relationships to be more easily learned.
changing criterion
✓ 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 response is radically different
from baseline and likely to resist change (Example: smoking).
classical conditioning
✓ 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
✓ A stimulus that is composed of several components.
concurrent behavioral contingency
✓ More than one contingency of reinforcement is in effect at the same time.
conditioned emotional response
✓ Suppression of a positively reinforced operant response by the presentation of a
stimulus that has previously been classically conditioned with an aversive stimulus.
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