Behavior
A large class of responses that share physical dimensions and functions and are the observable actions of a person (what they say or do), as well as their private events,… Read more
B. Concepts and Principles
Behavior-altering effect
An effect of motivating operations that causes an in-the-moment increase or decrease in the current frequency of behavior that’s been reinforced by a specific stimulus.
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6th Edition TCO
Behavioral momentum
The tendency for behavior to become more persistent (e.g., low-probability behaviors increase following a series of high-probability requests) following the delivery of reinforcement (e.g., a high-probability request sequence) in a
Breaking Down a BCBA® Mock Exam Question: Compound Schedules of Reinforcement
Test your Behavior-Change Procedures skills with PTB founder Dana Meller as she reviews a BCBA® mock exam question about the chained schedule, compound schedule of reinforcement. Included is a description of the alternative schedule, concurrent schedule, and conjunctive schedule.
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Breaking Down a BCBA® Mock Exam Question: Identify the Compound Schedule of Reinforcement
Test your concepts and principles skills with PTB founder Dana Meller, as she reviews a BCBA® mock exam question about the compound schedule of reinforcement in the context of voting. Here, Dana details the key features of the mixed, concurrent, conjunctive, and tandem schedules of reinforcement, as well as provides corresponding examples.
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Breaking Down a BCBA® Mock Exam Question: Identify the Intervention’s Reinforcement Schedule
Test your behavior-change procedures skills with PTB founder Dana Meller as she breaks down a BCBA® mock exam question about the differences between contingent and non-contingent schedules, focusing on an antecedent-based, response-independent schedule of reinforcement.
Breaking Down a BCBA® Mock Exam Question: Response-Independent & Dependent Reinforcement Schedules in ABA
Sharpen your behavior-change skills with PTB founder Dana Meller as she reviews a BCBA® mock exam question that examines an intervention aimed at reducing attention-seeking outbursts.
Breaking Down a BCBA® Mock Exam Question: Understanding Respondent-Operant Interactions
Test your behavior-change procedures skills with PTB founder Dana Meller as she reviews a BCBA® mock exam question that explores respondent-operant interactions, comparing and contrasting habilitation, habituation, and adaptation, with an emphasis on the importance of reinforcement. The breakdown touches on operant conditioning and its role in behavior change.
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Breaking Down a Mock BCBA® Exam Question: Behavioral Momentum
PTB founder Dana Meller breaks down a BCBA® mock exam question related to behavioral momentum.
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Breaking Down a Mock BCBA® Exam Question: Negative Reinforcement Contingencies
Test your concepts and principles skills with PTB founder Dana Meller as she reviews a BCBA® mock exam question about negative reinforcement. Included is a description of CMOS, free operant avoidance, and discriminated avoidance, as well as corresponding detailed examples.
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Chained schedules of reinforcement
A compound schedule of reinforcement in which a sequence of two or more signaled (SD) basic schedules of reinforcement must be met successively for the response to contact reinforcement.
Codic
Any verbal behavior that does not share formal similarity with its controlling stimulus but does share point-to-point correspondence (e.g., transcription).