BCBA 5th Edition Glossary 525 Questions with Correct Answers A-B DESIGN - Correct Answer a two phase experimental design consisting of a pre-treatment baseline condition (A) followed by a treatment condition (B).A-B-A DESIGN - Correct Answer A three-phase experimental design consisting of an initial baseline phase (A) until steady state responding (or countertherapeutic trend) is obtained; an intervention phase in which the treatment condition (B) is implemented until the behavior has changed and steady state responding is obtained, and a return to baseline conditions (A) by withdrawing the independent variable to see whether responding "reverses" to levels observed in the initial baseline phase.#A-B-A-B Design #Reversal Design # Withdrawal Design A-B-A-B DESIGN - Correct Answer an experimental design consisting of (1) an initial baseline phase (A) until steady state responding (or counter-therapeutic trend) is obtained, (2) an initial intervention phase in which the treatment variable (B) is implemented until the behavior has changed and steady state responding is obtained, (3) a return to baseline conditions (A) by withdrawing the independent variable to see whether responding "reverses" to levels observed in the initial baseline phase, and (4) a second intervention phase (B) to see whether initial treatment effects are replicated. (Also called reversal design and withdrawal design) ABATIVE EFFECT (OF A MOTIVATING OPERATION) - Correct Answer A decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation. For example, food ingestion abates (decreases the current frequency of) behavior that has been reinforced by food.ABC RECORDING/ANECDOTAL OBSERVATION - Correct Answer a form of direct, continuous observation in which the observer records a descriptive, temporally sequenced account of all behavior(s) of interest and the antecedent conditions and consequences for those behaviors as those events occur in the client's natural environment ABOLISHING OPERATION (AO) - Correct Answer A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event. For example, the reinforcing effectiveness of food is abolished as a result of food ingestion.ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THEARPY (ACT) - Correct Answer An evidence-based behavior therapy focusing on general well-being, defined as making reliable contact with high-priority positive reinforcers. 1 / 4
ACCURACY (OF MEASUREMENT) - Correct Answer The extent to which observed values, the data produced by measuring an event, match the true state, or true values, of the event as it exists in nature #Observed Value #True Value ADAPTED ALTERNATING TREATMENTS DESIGN - Correct Answer A variation of the multielement design for comparing the efficiency of instructional procedures. The comparison phase of the design features the alternating application of two (usually) or more different teaching methods, each method applied to different but equivalent sets of instructional items. All items are topographically different members of the same response or skill class, such as reading printed words, defining vocabulary terms, spelling words, answering math problems, and stating history facts.ADD-IN COMPONENT ANALYSIS - Correct Answer A method for conducting a component analysis in which components are assessed individually or in combination before the complete treatment package is presented. The add-in method can identify sufficient components. Sequence and floor or ceiling effects may mask the effects of components added in toward the end of the analysis.ADJUNCTIVE BEHAVIOR/SCHEDULE-INDUCED BEHAVIOR - Correct Answer Behavior that occurs as a collateral effect of a schedule of periodic reinforcement for other behavior; time-filling or interim activities that are induced by schedules of reinforcement during times when reinforcement is unlikely to be delivered.AFFIRMATION OF THE CONSEQUENT - Correct Answer A three-step form of reasoning that begins with a true antecedent-consequent (if-A-then-B) statement and proceeds as follows: (1) If A is true,then B is true; (2) B is found to be true; (3) therefore, A is true. Although other factors could be responsible for the truthfulness of A, a sound experiment affirms several if-A-then-B possibilities, each one reducing the likelihood of factors other than the independent variable being responsible for the observed changes in behavior.ALTERNATING TREATMENTS DESIGN - Correct Answer multi-element design ALTERNATIVE SCHEDULE (ALT) - Correct Answer Provides reinforcement when the response requirements of any of two or more simultaneously available component schedules are met. 2 / 4
ANTECEDENT - Correct Answer An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest.ANTECEDENT EXERCISE - Correct Answer An antecedent intervention, implemented independently of occurrences of the problem behavior, that usually has clients engage in some effortful form of aerobic activity (e.g. walking, jogging dancing, calisthenics, roller skating). Applied behavior analysts have used antecedent exercise in the treatment of many maladaptive behaviors such as self-injurious behavior (SIB), aggression, and diverse behaviors such as inappropriate vocalizations, repetitive movements, talking-out, out-of-seat, and stereotypic behaviors ANTECEDENT INTERVENTION - Correct Answer A behavior change strategy that manipulates antecedent stimuli based on (a) motivating operations (evocative and abative effects), (b) stimulus control (differential availability of reinforcement), and (c) contingency-independent interventions (e.g.protective equipment, and restraint).#Functional Communication Training # High-Probability Request Sequence #Noncontingent Reinforcement Contrast with #antecedent control, a behavior change intervention that manipulates contingency- dependent consequence events to affect stimulus control ANTECEDENT STIMULUS CLASS - Correct Answer A set of stimuli that share a common relationship. all stimuli in an antecedent stimulus class evoke the same operant behavior, or elicit the same respondent behavior #Arbitrary Stimulus Class #Feature Stimulus Class Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - Correct Answer The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior.ARBITRARILY APPLICABLE RELATIONAL RESPONDING (AARR) - Correct Answer forming new stimulus classes with little or no reinforced practice 3 / 4
ARBITRARY RELATIONS - Correct Answer Stimuli to which people respond in interlocked ways, not because of physical similarity, but because social-verbal reinforcement contingencies teach people to respond to them in this way.ARBITRARY STIMULUS CLASS - Correct Answer antecedent stimuli that evoke the same response but do not resemble each other in physical form or share a relational aspect such as bigger or under (e.g., peanuts, cheese, coconut milk, and chicken breasts are members of this if they evoke the response "sources of protein" Compare to #Feature Stimulus Class ARTIFACT - Correct Answer an outcome or result that appears to exist because of the way it is measured but in fact does not correspond to what actually occurred ASCENDING BASELINE - Correct Answer A data path that shows an increasing trend in the response measure over time.Compare to #Descending Baseline AUDIENCE - Correct Answer Anyone who functions as a discriminative stimulus evoking verbal behavior.Different audiences may control different verbal behavior about the same topic because of a differential reinforcement history. Teens may describe the same event in different ways when talking to peers versus parents AUTOCLITIC - Correct Answer The autoclitic relation involves two interlocking levels of verbal behavior emitted in one utterance. One level is a primary response (e.g., "The ice is solid"), while the other type is the secondary autoclitic response (e.g., adding "I think"). Autoclitic behavior benefits the listener by providing additional information regarding the primary response.AUTOCLITIC FRAME - Correct Answer Provide structure among verbal operants in terms of order, agreement, grouping, and composition of larger units of verbal behavior such as sentences. Autoclitic frames help speakers generate novel utterances. For example, experience with the frame "the girl's (ball, dog, coat) may enable a child to say "the girl's hat" without prior teaching AUTOCLITIC MAND - Correct Answer An autoclitic mand involves supplemental control by an MO related to some aspect of the Speaker's primary verbal response. The autoclitic mand (e.g., "Believe me, they
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