Adjunctive behaviors
Time-filling behaviors that occur as a result of reinforcement schedules, at times when reinforcement isn’t available. These behaviors are not related to the specific reinforcement yet tend to occur in… Read more
H. Selecting and Implementing Interventions
Alternative behaviors
Specific adaptive and functionally inequivalent behaviors that are taught to replace and/or prevent challenging behaviors.
Behavioral contrast
A side effect of treatment that occurs in a multiple schedule of reinforcement or punishment when a change in the schedule of one part of the reinforcement or punishment contingency
Dana Do’s: 9 Common Threats That Undermine Procedural Integrity
Procedural integrity is essential for knowing whether an intervention is actually being implemented as designed. PTB founder Dana Meller breaks down the nine most common factors that interfere with consistent, accurate implementation.
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Dana Do’s: BCBA® Mock Question Breakdown on Social Validity
Struggled with a recent Mock Monday question on social validity? You’re not alone. This quick breakdown clears up the confusion around the correct answer—and why catching negation words can make all the difference on exam day.
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Dana Do’s: Do Alternative Behaviors Need to be Functionally Equivalent?
Do alternative behaviors always have to be functionally equivalent to the target behavior that we’re trying to reduce or eliminate? PTB founder Dana Meller breaks it down.
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Dana Do’s: Extinguished Behaviors Resurge
When reinforcement for the alternative replacement behavior is discontinued, extinction for the alternative behavior can resurge.
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Dana Do’s: Unwanted Effects of Extinction
When behavior reappears after extinction, is it spontaneous recovery or resurgence? PTB founder Dana Meller explain the difference.
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Experimenter bias
When practitioners implement specific components of a treatment in such a way that it gets an unfair advantage over other treatment components, or when practitioner’s expectations affect their implementation of
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Extinction burst
An immediate increase in the rate of responding when an extinction procedure is first implemented.
Extinction induced aggression
An expected and temporary increase in aggression that can result during an escape extinction procedure for a non-aggressive behavior, and is typically an indicator that the correct maintaining consequence was
Extinction induced variability
The occurrence of novel behavior that is sometimes produced during an extinction procedure and appears to be an attempt for the client to find new ways to contact reinforcement.