SPCE 609 SAFMEDS VERIFIED ACCURATE STUDY
GUIDE
Ratio Schedules - Answers - schedules in which consequences are delivered after a
specific # of responses
Behavior Altering Effect - Answers - And increase or decrease in behavior due to the
reinforcement history.
Radical Behaviorism - Answers - Study of all private and public events of human
behavior (Skinner)
Behavioral Cusp - Answers - Behavior accessing quick and dramatic consequences that
lead to long term changes because it exposes individual to new reinforcement,
environments, contingencies, responses, and stimulus controls. (cusp of change)
Formal Dimensions of stimuli - Answers - Size, color, intensity, weight, and spatial
position relative to other objects.
Limited Hold - Answers - A response must occur within a specified amount of time after
the end of the interval, or the interval is reset. May be a component of a variable interval
(VI) or fixed interval (FI) schedule.
Contingency shaped behavior - Answers - Behavior shaped through direct experience
with contingencies.
Contingency - Answers - Dependent and temporal relations between operant behavior
and its controlling variable
Direct measurement - Answers - The behavior that is measured is the same as the
behavior that is the focus of the investigation
Celeration - Answers - The change in rate of responding over time.
Concurrent chains (schedule) design - Answers - An experimental design in which
participants have two or more response options resulting in different treatment
procedures
Variable raio (VR) - Answers - Schedule of reinforcement requires varying number of
responses before reinforcement is provided.
Promotes maintenance and generalization due to steady and high rates of responding.
, Fixed Interval - Answers - requires a set amount of time to elapse before giving the
reinforcement
Calibration - Answers - Comparison of data produced from a measurement system to a
true value or known standard. If errors are found, information is used to correct the
measurement system.
Free operant - Answers - any operant behavior that results in minimal displacement of
the participant in time and space
Behavioral functions - Answers - A functional relation between a stimulus and response.
Stimulus change can have an immediate but temporary effect, or delayed but
permanent effect on behavior frequency.
Event recording - Answers - Measurement procedure for determining how many times a
behavior occurs.
Conditioned stimulus - Answers - Formerly neutral stimulus (NS) paired with an
unconditioned stimulus (US) or conditioned stimulus (CS), which now elicits a
conditioned reflex (CR)
Functional response class - Answers - A group of two or more topographically different
responses that all have the same effect on the environment, usually producing a
specific class of reinforcers.
Conditioned punisher - Answers - A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as
a punisher because of prior pairing with one or more other punishers.
Discrete trial - Answers - any operant whose response rate is controlled by a given
opportunity (SD) to emit the response
ABA - Answers - Process of analyzing and improving socially significant behaviors using
the scientific method.
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) - Answers - a natural science approach to he
study of behavior as a subject matter with an emphasis on describing functional
relations between behavior and controlling environmental variables. (Skinner)
Antecedent - Answers - An environmental condition or stimulus that exists or occurs
prior to the behavior.
Explanatory fiction - Answers - A hypothetical variable that often takes the form of
another name for the observed phenomenon it claims to explain and contributes nothing
to a functional account or understanding of the phenomenon.
GUIDE
Ratio Schedules - Answers - schedules in which consequences are delivered after a
specific # of responses
Behavior Altering Effect - Answers - And increase or decrease in behavior due to the
reinforcement history.
Radical Behaviorism - Answers - Study of all private and public events of human
behavior (Skinner)
Behavioral Cusp - Answers - Behavior accessing quick and dramatic consequences that
lead to long term changes because it exposes individual to new reinforcement,
environments, contingencies, responses, and stimulus controls. (cusp of change)
Formal Dimensions of stimuli - Answers - Size, color, intensity, weight, and spatial
position relative to other objects.
Limited Hold - Answers - A response must occur within a specified amount of time after
the end of the interval, or the interval is reset. May be a component of a variable interval
(VI) or fixed interval (FI) schedule.
Contingency shaped behavior - Answers - Behavior shaped through direct experience
with contingencies.
Contingency - Answers - Dependent and temporal relations between operant behavior
and its controlling variable
Direct measurement - Answers - The behavior that is measured is the same as the
behavior that is the focus of the investigation
Celeration - Answers - The change in rate of responding over time.
Concurrent chains (schedule) design - Answers - An experimental design in which
participants have two or more response options resulting in different treatment
procedures
Variable raio (VR) - Answers - Schedule of reinforcement requires varying number of
responses before reinforcement is provided.
Promotes maintenance and generalization due to steady and high rates of responding.
, Fixed Interval - Answers - requires a set amount of time to elapse before giving the
reinforcement
Calibration - Answers - Comparison of data produced from a measurement system to a
true value or known standard. If errors are found, information is used to correct the
measurement system.
Free operant - Answers - any operant behavior that results in minimal displacement of
the participant in time and space
Behavioral functions - Answers - A functional relation between a stimulus and response.
Stimulus change can have an immediate but temporary effect, or delayed but
permanent effect on behavior frequency.
Event recording - Answers - Measurement procedure for determining how many times a
behavior occurs.
Conditioned stimulus - Answers - Formerly neutral stimulus (NS) paired with an
unconditioned stimulus (US) or conditioned stimulus (CS), which now elicits a
conditioned reflex (CR)
Functional response class - Answers - A group of two or more topographically different
responses that all have the same effect on the environment, usually producing a
specific class of reinforcers.
Conditioned punisher - Answers - A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as
a punisher because of prior pairing with one or more other punishers.
Discrete trial - Answers - any operant whose response rate is controlled by a given
opportunity (SD) to emit the response
ABA - Answers - Process of analyzing and improving socially significant behaviors using
the scientific method.
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB) - Answers - a natural science approach to he
study of behavior as a subject matter with an emphasis on describing functional
relations between behavior and controlling environmental variables. (Skinner)
Antecedent - Answers - An environmental condition or stimulus that exists or occurs
prior to the behavior.
Explanatory fiction - Answers - A hypothetical variable that often takes the form of
another name for the observed phenomenon it claims to explain and contributes nothing
to a functional account or understanding of the phenomenon.
