Post reinforcement pause
A pause in responding that follows the delivery of reinforcement on fixed interval or fixed ratio schedules of reinforcement.
B. Concepts and Principles
Progressive schedule of reinforcement
A variation of basic intermittent schedules of reinforcement in which the criteria for reinforcement is systematically increased, independent of the client’s behavior, until responding stops (the breaking point).
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Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Sections B-1: Define and provide examples of behavior, response, and response class, B-10: Define and provide examples of stimulus control, B-12: Define and provide examples of motivating operations and G-4: Use stimulus and response prompts and fading (e.g., errorless, most-to-least, least-to-most, prompt delay, stimulus fading).
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Punishment
A stimulus change following a behavior that results in that behavior occurring less often or not at all in the future.
Pure tact
A tact response that is exclusively controlled by a nonverbal SD and no other antecedent stimuli.
Pure verbal behavior
A verbal behavior that has one source of antecedent control (e.g., a mand that is only controlled by an MO or a tact that is only controlled by a nonverbal
Recombinative generalization
A response to novel, untrained combinations of stimuli that were taught in different contexts (e.g., learning to tact “red apple” and “green tomato”, and without training, correctly tacting, “red tomato”
Reflexive MO (CMO-R)
A type of conditioned motivating operation that is established when a stimulus comes before and signals the onset of pain/something aversive, making it so that the removal of this warning
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6th Edition TCO
Reinforcement
A stimulus change following a behavior leading to said behavior occurring more often or strengthening the duration, latency, magnitude, or topography of said behavior in the future.
Repertoire
A person’s entire collection of learned skills and behaviors that are related to a specific task or setting.
Respondent behavior
An involuntary behavior that is part of an organism’s genetic endowment, elicited without any prior learning, when an eliciting stimulus (US) produces a behavior (UR/REFLEX).