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A thoroughgoing form of behaviourism that attempts to understand all human behaviour, including private events such as thoughts and feeling, in terms of controlling variables in the history.

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Radical Behaviourism

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Founded by BF Skinner. Includes the emphasis on describing functional relations between behaviour and controlling variables in the environment over formal theory testing.

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Experimental Analysis of Behaviour

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Science in which tactics derived from the principles of behaviour are applied to improve socially significant behaviour.

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Applied Behaviour Analysis

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The history of development of an individual organism during it’s lifetime.

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Ontogeny

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The history of the natural evolution of a species.

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Phylogeny

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The assumption that the universe is lawful and orderly place in which phenomena occur in relation to other events and not in a willy-nilly fashion.

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Determinism

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The objective observation of the phenomena of interest.

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Empiricism

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A carefully controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomena of interest under two or more different conditions with a change in only one factor.

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Experiment

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An attitude that the truthfulness and validity of all scientific theory and knowledge should be continually questioned.

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Philosophical Doubt

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Repeating the conditions within an experiment to determine the reliability of effects and increase internal validity.

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Replication

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The practice of ruling out simple, logical explanations, experimentally or conceptually, before considering more couple or abstract explanations.

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Parsimony

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The change in one event being cause by the manipulation of another event.

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Functional Relation

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One of the 7 dimension of ABA introduced by Bear, Wolf and Risley. Applied interventions deal with problems of demonstrated social importance.

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Applied

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One of the 7 dimension of ABA introduced by Bear, Wolf and Risley. Applied interventions deal with measurable behaviour.

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Behavioural

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One of the 7 dimension of ABA introduced by Bear, Wolf and Risley. Applied intervention require an objective demonstration that the procedure cause the effect.

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Analytic

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One of the 7 dimension of ABA introduced by Bear, Wolf and Risley. Applied interventions are described well enough that they can be implemented by anyone with training and resources.

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Technological

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One of the 7 dimension of ABA introduced by Bear, Wolf and Risley. Applied interventions arise from specific and identifiable theoretical base.

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Conceptually Systematic

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One of the 7 dimension of ABA introduced by Bear, Wolf and Risley. Applied interventions produce strong, socially important effects.

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Effective

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One of the 7 dimension of ABA introduced by Bear, Wolf and Risley. Applied interventions are designed from the outset to operate in new environments and continue after the formal treatments have ended.

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General

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A contingency in which a response terminates an ongoing stimulus.

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Escape Contingency

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A contingency in which a response prevents or postpones the presentation of a stimulus.

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Avoidance Contingency

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A situation in which the frequency, latency, duration, or amplitude of a behaviour is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus.

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Stimulus Control

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A stimulus in the presence of which response of some type have been reinforced and in teh absence of which the same type of response have occurred and not been reinforced.

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Discriminative Stimulus

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A stimulus in the presence of which a given behaviour has not produced reinforcement in the past.

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Stimulus Delta

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A behaviour that has been previously reinforced no longer results in the reinforcing consequence and, therefore the behaviour stops occuring in the future.

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Extinction

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A temporary increase in the frequency of respoonding when an extinction procedure is initially implemented

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Extinction Burst

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A behaviour suddenly begins to occur after its frequency has decreased to prereinforcement levels or stopped entirely.

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Spontaneous Recovery

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A schedule of reinforcement that provides reinforcement for every occurance of behaviour and is advantageous for skill acquisition.

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Continuous Reinforcement

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A schedule of reinforcement in which some but not all occurences of behaviour result in reinforcement, useful for strengthening established behaviours and the progression to naturally occurring reinforcement.

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Intermittent Reinforcement

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A schedule that requires a number of responses before a response produces reinforcement.

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Ratio Schedules

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A type of schedule where reinforcement is contingent on the occurence of one response after the required time has elapsed.

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Interval Schedules

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A type of schedule where reinforcement is contingent on the occurence of one response after the required time has elapsed.

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Time Schedules

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A schedule where the ratio or the time requirement remains constant.

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Fixed Schedules

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A type of schedule when reinforcement is provided for the first response after a set time which is always the same has elapsed.

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Fixed Interval Schedules.

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A schedule in which reinforcement is delivered after a constant set number of responses.

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Fixed Ratio Schedules

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A schedule in which the response ratio or the time requirement can change from one reinforced response to another. It occurs after an average amount of responses or a response after an average time has elapsed.

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Variable Schedules

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A schedule in which reinforcement is provided following the elapse of variable durations of time.

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Variable Interval

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A schedule in which reinforcement is provided following a varying number of responses.

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Variable Ratio Schedules

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Abrupt increases in ratio requirements when moving from dense to thinner reinforcement schedules.

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Ratio Strain

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Increasing response ratio or duration of time interval.

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Schedule Thinning

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Reinforcement remains available for a finite time following the elapse of the FI or VI interval.

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Limited Hold

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Delivery of the reinforcer is contingent on responses occuring at a rate higher than a predetermined criterion.

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Differential Reinforcement of High Rates of Behaviour

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Delivery of the reinforcer is contingent on responses occuring at a rate lower than a predetermined criterion.

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Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Behaviour

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Provides reinforcement at the end of a predetermined time interval when the number of responses is less than a criterion that is gradually decreased across time intervals.

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Differential Reinforcement of Diminishing Rates of Behaviour

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A schedule of reinforcement in which 2 or more contingencies of reinforcement operate independently and simultaneously for 2 or more behaviours.

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Concurrent Schedules of Reinforcement

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A schedule of reinforcement that consists of 2 or more basic schedules of reinforcement that occur in an alternating sequence and an Sd is correlated with each component of the schedule.

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Multiple Schedules of Reinforcement

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A schedule of reinforcement in which the response requirements of 2 or more basic schedules must be met in a specific sequence before reinforcement is delivered.

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Chained Schedules of Reinforcement

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A schedule of reinforcement that consists of 2 or more basic schedules of reinforcement that occur in an alternating sequence but no Sd is correlated with the components of the schedule.

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Mixed Schedules of Reinforcement