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Contingency - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Refers to the relations between operant behavior and its
controlling variables
antecedent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔An environmental conditions or stimulus change existing or
occurring prior to the behavior of interest
OR
What was happening before the behavior occurred.
Baseline - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The condition of an experiment in which the independent
variables is to present.
Preference Assessments - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A variety of procedures used to determine the
stimuli that a person prefers.
Deprivation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Used to get a MAND from client. The state of an organism
with respect to how much time has elapsed since it has been consumed or contacted a
particular type of reinforcer.
Fading - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The gradual removal of prompts as the behavior continues to
occur in the presence of the discriminative stimulus.
Discrete Trail - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Any operant whose response rate is controlled by a given
opportunity to emit the response.
, Differential Reinforcement of alternative behaviors (DRA) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Reinforcement is delivered for a behavior that serves a desirable alternative to the
behavior targeted for reduction
Task Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The process of breaking a complex skill or series of
behavior into smaller teachable units.
repertoire - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔All of the behaviors a person can do or a set of behaviors
relevant to a particular setting or task.
Thinning the Schedule of Reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Gradually increasing the
response ratio or the time interval to access reinforcement.
Forward Chasing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A method for teaching behavior chains that begins
with the learner being prompted and taught to perform the first behavior in the task analysis
and the trainer completes the remaining steps. When the learner shows competence the next
step is introduced.
Duration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A measure of the total extent of time in which a behavior
occurs
To increase compliance, the BCBA is prescribing the use of positive reinforcement. What is not
an example of positive reinforcement? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The client gains access to the
phone whenever he follows instructions and his compliance decreases
After his RBT, Jack, presented the SD, "How old are you?", Paul selected the response, "My
name is Paul" on his AAC device. Upon reviewing the graphs, Paul's scores for this target have
remained at or below 50% across 5 days. What can we assume is missing? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Stimulus control