ABA Midterm

Question 1

negative punishment

Answer 1

removal of a stimulus to decrease behavior

Question 2

unconditioned reinforcers

Answer 2

stimuli such as food and water that are inherently reinforcing for individuals

Question 3

behaviorism

Answer 3

concentrates on the philosophy of science of behavior

Question 4

negative reinforcement

Answer 4

removing an aversive stimuli to increase behavior

Question 5

antecedent

Answer 5

occurs prior to a behavior or response

Question 6

three term contingency

Answer 6

antecedent, behavior, consequences

Question 7

consequence

Answer 7

occurs after a behavior or response

Question 8

response latency

Answer 8

amount of time between when a demand is given and a response/behavior is displayed

Question 9

time sampling

Answer 9

procedure of observing and recording behavior during intervals or at specific moments in time

Question 10

ratio schedules

Answer 10

based on the number of responses

Question 11

interval schedules

Answer 11

based on passage of time

Question 12

behavior

Answer 12

what is observed

Question 13

interresponse time

Answer 13

the amount of time that elapses between two consecutive instances of a response or behavior

Question 14

duration

Answer 14

amount of time in which a behavior occurs

Question 15

conditioned reinforcers

Answer 15

(1) have to be paired with another stimuli, (2) they can be tokens, stickers, or tickets

Question 16

mentalism

Answer 16

assumes inner causes or phenomena directly caused or atleast mediate some forms of behavior and strongly relies on hypothetical constructs or explanatory fictions

Question 17

continuous reinforcement

Answer 17

reinforcing every instance of behavior

Question 18

extinction

Answer 18

(1) discontinuing reinforcement that maintains behavior, (2) reinforcer for the behavior must be empirically identified, (3) zero probability of reinforcement

Question 19

intermittent schedules of reinforcement

Answer 19

only some of the responses are reinforced
- Fixed ratio
- Variable ratio
- Fixed interval
- Variable interval

Question 20

ABA

Answer 20

(1) concentrates on the development of technology to improve behavior (2) overarching purpose is to concentrate on socially important or significant behavior

Question 21

extinction burst

Answer 21

immediate increase in the frequency of a target behavior after the removal of a reinforcer

Question 22

reflex

Answer 22

stimulus-response relation consisting of a antecedent stimulus and respondent behavior it illicits

Question 23

radical behaviorism

Answer 23

principles that govern behavior that we can see must also govern behavior that we can’t see

Question 24

Skinner

Answer 24

largely credited with founding the scientific discipline known as experimental analysis of behavior

Question 25

temporal locus

Answer 25

specifies when in time a behavior occurs

Question 26

operant behavior

Answer 26

(1) emitted because in the past it produces a particular stimulus change or functional consequence (2) defined by function rather than form

Question 27

Fixed interval schedule of reinforcement

Answer 27

gradual accelerating rate of a response of behavior towards the end of the interval

Question 28

ratio strain

Answer 28

may result from thinning the schedule of reinforcement too abruptly

Question 29

positive punishment

Answer 29

adding stimuli to decrease behavior

Question 30

Variable interval schedule of reinforcement

Answer 30

provide a reinforcer at the end of an average passage of time