Shaping within response topographies
A shaping method in which the response form of each successive approximation remains the same, but some other measurable dimension is being trained.
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G. Behavior-Change Procedures
Simple discriminations
Correct responding that requires discriminating one antecedent stimulus condition (SD) in which the response will produce reinforcement.
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5th Edition Task List
G-10 Teach simple and conditional discriminations.
6th Edition TCO
G.6 Design and evaluate procedures to produce simple and conditional discriminations.
Stimulus equivalence
Defined as the untrained acquisition of a reflexive, symmetric, and transitive relation between stimuli that are in some way related.
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5th Edition Task List
G-12 Use equivalence-based instruction.
6th Edition TCO
G.19 Design and evaluate procedures to promote emergent relations and generative performance.
Stimulus fading
A method of fading stimulus prompts by systematically and gradually lessening or removing them until control of an individual’s behavior transfers to the SD.
Stimulus prompt
A type of prompt that increases the salience of the SD and calls an individual’s attention to the stimulus that directs behavior, which is gradually faded out until the correct
Stimulus shape transformations
A method of fading stimulus prompts by starting with a stimulus that controls the desired response and systematically and gradually changing the shape of that stimulus into the SD that
Successive approximations
The gradual and progressive changes in criteria during a shaping procedure, with each change being closer in form to the desired terminal response.
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6th Edition TCO
Symbolic matching-to-sample
A matching-to-sample procedure where clients are taught to match sample and comparison stimuli that are symbolically related, and not physically identical.
Symmetry
Defined as the trained relation of symbolically similar items and the demonstration of the relation in reverse without additional direct training. (i.e., If A=B, then B=A)
5th Edition Task List
G-12 Use equivalence-based instruction.
6th Edition TCO
G.19 Design and evaluate procedures to promote emergent relations and generative performance.
Task analysis
A breakdown of a complex behavior into small, teachable units that establish a behavior chain (series of steps and tasks presented in a specific order) that must occur in a
5th Edition Task List
6th Edition TCO
Time delay prompting
A prompting procedure in which the transfer of stimulus control from the prompt to the SD is implemented by delaying the presentation of the prompt following the presentation of the
Time out ribbon
A non-exclusionary time-out procedure in which reinforcement is paired with a ribbon on a child’s wrist to signal the availability of reinforcement. The removal of the ribbon, contingent on challenging