ABA Glossary

By Dana Meller, M.A., BCBA
Edited by Tyra Sellers, J.D., Ph.D., BCBA-D
ABA Glossary by Dana Meller, M.A., BCBA, edited by Tyra Sellers, J.D., Ph.D., BCBA-D

Contingency independent intervention

Any antecedent intervention that manipulates motivating operations and changes antecedent events to create an evocative or abative effect on behavior.

G-2  Use interventions based on motivating operations and discriminative stimuli.

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