Week 10 Flashcards
(17 cards)
Behavior that acts on the environment to produce an immediate consequence and, in turn, is strengthened by that consequence.
a) avoidance behavior
b) respondent behavior
c) escape behavior
d) explicit behavior
e) operant behavior
e.) operant behavior
Occurs when a behavior in a particular situation is followed by a reinforcing consequence, thus making the behavior more likely to occur in similar circumstances in the future.
a) operant conditioning
b) operational stimulus
c) negative reinforcement
d) positive reinforcement
e) motivational conditioning
a.) operant conditioning
A behavioral contract in which one person seeks to change a target behavior.
a)
one-party contract
b)
parallel contract
c) behavior contract
d) quid pro quo contract
e) tandem contract
a.) one party contract
A procedure for investigating conditional relations and stimulus equivalence.
a) discriminative stimulus
b) unpairing
c) matching-to-sample
d) stimulus delta
c.) matching to sample
The extent to which the observed values—the data produced by measuring an event—match the true state, or true values, of the event as it exists in nature.
a) reliability
b) interobserver agreement
c) accuracy
d) believability
e) observed value
c.) accuracy
Inductive reasoning that draws general rules based on specific observation. It is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations and seems to often go hand in hand with behaviorism.
a) behaviorism
b) empiricism
c) pragmatism
d) selectionism
e) determinism
c.) pragmatism
A systematic approach to the understanding of natural phenomena that relies on determinism as its fundamental assumption, empiricism as its primary rule, experimentation as its basic strategy, replication as a requirement for believability, parsimony as a value, and philosophical doubt as its guiding conscience.
a) science
b) radical behaviorism
c) methodological behaviorism
d) experiment
e) applied behavior analysis
a.) science
A derived (untrained) stimulus-stimulus relation (e.g., A=C, C=A) that emerges as a product of training two other stimulus-stimulus relations.
a) reflexivity
b) prompting
c) transitivity
d) symmetry
e) respectivity
c.) transitivity
A carefully controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomenon of interest under two or more different conditions in which only one factor at a time differs from one condition to another.
a) experiment
b) higher-order conditioning
c) behaviorism
d) mentalism
e) empiricism
a.) experiment
The framework within which an experiment is conducted, which allows the researcher to draw a conclusion about a relationship between an independent and dependent variable.
a) research design
b) consequences
c) experimental design
d) variable design
e) explanatory fiction
c.) experimental design
The degree to which a study’s findings are generalizable to other subjects, settings, or behavior.
a) experimental design
b) extraneous variable
c) experimental question
d) external validity
e) experimental control
d.) external validity
The objective observation of the phenomena of interest.
a) behaviorism
b) empiricism
c) mentalism
d) determinism
e) solipsism
b.) empiricism
The extent to which an experiment shows convincingly that changes in behavior are a function of the independent variable and not the result of unknown or uncontrolled variables.
a) experimental control
b) internal validity
c) external validity
d) reliability
e) social validity
b.) internal validity
A dimension of ABA that means that behavior changes last over time, appear in novel environments, and spread to other behavior.
a) conceptually systematic
b) generality
c) effective
d) analytic
e) technological
b.) generality
A dimension of ABA that means that the procedures used to change behaviors are derived from basic principles of behavior.
a) behavioral
b) generality
c) technological
d) applied
e) conceptually systematic
e.) conceptually systematic
The likelihood that a given behavior will occur in a given circumstance.
a) indirect functional assessment
b) contingency probability
c) conditional probability
d) behavior probability
e) functionally equivalent
c.) conditional probability
A dimension of ABA that means that the written descriptions for all ABA procedures used in a study are described in enough detail that they can be replicated.
a) behavioral
b) applied
c) conceptually systematic
d) analytic
e) technological
e.) technological
