Operant conditioning
A process that involves an occasion for a behavior (SD), the behavior itself, and the consequence that follows; a process that determines the future of that behavior’s occurrence or nonoccurrence.
Operant extinction
A process where a maintaining reinforcer is no longer provided, and the behavior that has been maintained by that reinforcer decreases and eventually ceases.
Operational definition
An objective, clear, and complete description of target behavior.
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Outcome-based feedback
Feedback intended to correct problems in staff behavior that produce specific permanent products (e.g., organization of materials, observable change in client’s behavior, completed progress notes, etc.).
Overcorrection
A positive punishment procedure where, contingent on an occurrence of the target behavior, the client is required to engage in an effortful behavior that is directly related to the target
Overselective stimulus control
When focusing on a minor feature of a stimulus interferes with stimulus control and prevents the acquisition of new skills.
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Overshadowing
When the presence of a competing or distracting stimulus interferes with the acquisition of a skill/stimulus control of another stimulus.
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Paired stimuli preference assessment
A stimulus preference assessment in which the client is asked to choose between sets of two stimuli that are presented simultaneously. The client’s choices and how often each item is
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Parametric analysis
A type of experiment in which the effects of differential amounts of the independent variable are presented and compared to the dependent variable.
Parsimony
A philosophical assumption underlying the science of behavior analysis that the simplest theory requiring the fewest assumptions must be ruled out before considering more complex explanations.