PTB co-founder Dana Meller discusses a powerful concept that explores the influence of consequences on behavior in the presence of an MO.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-12: Define and provide examples of motivating operations.
Motivating Operations ➠ Exploring the Future Impact of Behavior Read More
PTB co-founder Dana Meller explores the procedure of shaping, discussing the two key features that define its effectiveness.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section G-7: Use shaping.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller hones your experimental design skills with a focus on the alternating treatments design’s confounding variable.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section D-5: Use single-subject experimental designs (e.g., reversal, multiple baseline, multielement, changing criterion).
Explore the world of self-management with PTB co-founder Dana Meller as she discusses how controlled responses and self-controlling behaviors lead to improved behavior.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section G-20: Use self-management strategies.
Self Evaluate Your Understanding of ABA Terminology ➠ Self Management Read More
PTB co-founder Dana Meller reviews verbal behavior, and explains which of the six elementary verbal operants is controlled by a written verbal Sᴰ, and also shares point-to-point correspondence. Included is a comparison of the different Sᴰ(s) that control(s) each elementary verbal operant.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-14: Define and provide examples of the verbal operants.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller clarifies the concepts, providing examples to help better understand these crucial distinctions and addresses common misconceptions between point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-14: Define and provide examples of the verbal operants.
PTB co-founder Dana Meller explains the differences between operant and respondent extinction procedures and how these procedures reduce challenging behaviors and diminish reflex responses in behavior management and conditioning.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section B-3: Define and provide examples of respondent and operant conditioning.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller reviews a specific type of conditioned reinforcer. Included is a description of generalized conditioned reinforcers and corresponding examples. Additionally, Dana shares a good rule of thumb for your exam about which stimuli are always identified as generalized conditioned reinforcers.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section G-3: Establish and use conditioned reinforcers.
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Test your measurement, data display, and interpretation knowledge with PTB co-founder Dana Meller as she discusses one specific measurement system that measures the effect of the behavior after its occurrence. Here, Dana details the two ways someone could implement this type of measurement system, provides examples of scenarios and a variety of corresponding measurement methods, and highlights some of the pros of utilizing this type of measurement system.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section C-2: Distinguish among direct, indirect, and product measures of behavior.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller clarifies the distinctions between ratio strain and breaking point.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Sections B-5: Define and provide examples of schedules of reinforcement.; and F-5: Conduct preference assessments.
ABA Terminology Challenge ➠ Ratio Strain vs. Breaking Point Read More