Behaviour Analysis (BCBA exam prep) Flashcards
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An experiment is designed to discover the differential effects of a range of values of an independent variable
Parametric Analysis
Frequency, Latency, Duration or amplitude of a response is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus
Stimulus Control
The occurrence of a previously punished class of response
Recovery From Punishment
Arrange a reinforcer for a response that is preceded by some minimum time without responding (spaced responding)
Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Behaviour (DRL)
Verbal Behaviour under the control of a non-verbal discriminative stimulus which produces generalised conditioned reinforcement
Tact
Prompts that involve the behaviour of another person to evoke a particular response
Response Prompt
A stimulus in the presence of which some responses have been reinforced and in the absence of which those responses have not been reinforced
Discriminative Stimulus
An operant class that occurs more frequently under some antecedent conditions then under others
Discriminated Operant
Increase in the rate of responding in one setting as a result of a decrease in reinforcement (or an increase in punishment) in another setting
Positive Contrast
Contingency in which reinforcement is not available for a specialised period of time after switching to another alternative (in a concurrent schedule arrangement)
Change Over Delay (COD)
Change in one component of a multiple schedule that increases or decreases the rate of responding on that comment is accompanied by a change in the response rate in the opposite direction on the other, unaltered component of the schedule
Behavioural Contrast
X schedule of reinforcement, in which X refers to the number of previous responses from which the current response must differ in order for reinforcement to occur
Lag Schedule
Measure of the relative change in the rate of responding per unit of time
Celeration
Three ways in which a listener is able to reinforce responses to private events
Public Accompaniment, Collateral Responses and Common properties
Verbal Behaviour controlled by a verbal discriminative stimulus which DOES NOT HAVE point to point correspondence with the response
Intraverbal
Verbal Behaviour which is controlled by verbal discriminative stimuli and have point to point correspondence and formal similarity with the response
Echoic
A neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned response through pairing with an unconditioned stimulus (US)
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Very weak intensities of a stimulus will not elicit a response but as intensity increases there is a point at which the response is elicited
The Law of Threshold
The extent to which the target behaviours are appropriate, intervention procedures are acceptable, and important and significant changes in target and collateral behaviours are produced
Social Validity
The effects of a participants behaviour in a given condition that are the result of the subjects experience with a prior condition
Sequence Effects
A schedule that requires a number of responses before reinforcement is produced
Ratio Schedule
Decrease in the rate of responding in one setting as a result of an increase in reinforcement in another setting
Negative Contrast
Time-sampling procedure where you record whether the behaviour is occurring only at the end of the interval
Momentary Time Sampling
Recording tangible items or environmental effects that result from a behaviour (outcome recording)
Permanent Recording