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Question 1

Pivotal Behavior

Answer 1

“PIVOT!!” knowing how to carry a couch up the stairs helps you know how to carry a bed up the stairs.

Wood–>Chicken

learn one thing here and it has an effect somewhere else.

learning to cut wood with the grain translates knowing to cut chicken with the grain.

Question 2

Behavior Cusp

Answer 2

opens door to new type of reinforcement.

learning to crawl–>you can access new things that you couldn’t before.

Question 3

event recording

Answer 3

every measurement of behavior, continuous recording. ABC narrative, frequency

Question 4

discontinuous recording

Answer 4

partial, whole, for continuous behaviors

Question 5

FR FI

Answer 5

post reinforcement pause

Question 6

levels of scientific understanding

Answer 6

description, prediction, control

Question 7

operant

Answer 7

Skinner
EVOKE/EMIT
LEARNED
VOLUNTARY
ONTOGENY
ADAPTION

Question 8

respondent

Answer 8

Watson
ELICIT (Eli responds nicely)
UNLEARED
REFLEX
PHYLOGENY
HABITUATION

Question 9

stimulus generalization

Answer 9

multiple stimuli evoke one response (pens/pencils–> can write name)

Question 10

Y axis

Answer 10

ordinate

Question 11

x axis

Answer 11

abscissa

Question 12

thinning schedule of reinforcement

Answer 12

less SR+

Question 13

thickening schedule of reinforcement

Answer 13

more SR+

Question 14

attitudes of science

Answer 14

DEERPP

Question 15

DEERPP

Answer 15

determinism #followsrules
empiricism #facts #data
experimentation #FA #control
replication #repeatability #believability
parsimony #simple #fewestassumptions
philosophical doubt #healthy skepticism #bullshitdetector

Question 16

7 dimensions of ABA

Answer 16

BATCAGE GETACAB

Question 17

BATCAGE

Answer 17

behavioral #operationally defined #what people do
applied #socially significant
technological #verydetailed
conceptually systematic #basic principles of aba
analytical #functional relationship #control
generality #bx, subjects, settings
effective #clinically significant #datashowschange

Question 18

partial interval

Answer 18

POD Overestimates rate of bx Decreases behaviors

Question 19

whole interval

Answer 19

hole is under your butt

increase behaviors underestimates rate of behaviors

Question 20

compound schedules of reinforcement

Answer 20

CMMCTAC

Question 21

concurrent

Answer 21

2+ bx
possible sd
choice/matching law

Question 22

multiple and mixed

Answer 22

one or more behavior
multiple yes sd
mixed no sd

Question 23

chained and tandem

Answer 23

one ore more behavior
chained yes sd
tandem no sd

Question 24

alternative and conjunctive

Answer 24

one behavior
possible sd
alternative either/or
conjunctive BOTH

Question 25

establishing/abolishing

Answer 25

effect on bx

Question 26

evocative/abative

Answer 26

effect on reinforcer

Question 27

fixed interval

Answer 27

scalloped

Question 28

negative behavior contrast

Answer 28

goes up in one setting and down in the second

Question 29

positive behavior contrast

Answer 29

goes down in one setting and up in the other

Question 30

multiple response generalization

Answer 30

multiple responses to one stimuli (hi, hey to one person)

Question 31

general case analysis

Answer 31

go out into environment and see what they are going to use in the natural environment

Question 32

radical behaviorism

Answer 32

covert/overt behaviors SKINNER

Question 33

methodological behaviorism

Answer 33

extremely rigid ONLY OVERT events

Question 34

overt

Answer 34

inside the person, can't see

Question 35

covert

Answer 35

can see

Question 36

codic

Answer 36

transcript, textual

Question 37

duplic

Answer 37

point to point/formal similiarity echoic-verbal sd vocal R copy text written sd written R mimic signed sd signed R

Question 38

type 1 error

Answer 38

false positive telling man he is pregnant

Question 39

type 2 error

Answer 39

false negative telling pregnant woman she is not pregnant

Question 40

7 steps for programming for generalization

Answer 40

CLEMING

Question 41

Habituation

Answer 41

Respondent When eliciting stimulus is presented over a short period of time the strength of the respondent bx diminishes. Popping balloon in face

Question 42

Adaption

Answer 42

Operant reductions in responding evoke antecedent stimulus over repeated prolonged presentations inappropriate songs eventually you don't react to dirty words