A specific type of behaviorism which holds that all human behavior, including private events like thinking and feeling, can be understood or explained as a result of interactions with the… Read more
A-3 Describe and explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism.
A.3 Explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism.
A procedure in discrete-trial teaching during which random mastered targets are presented in a randomized order.
G-9 Use discrete-trial, free-operant, and naturalistic teaching arrangements.
G.13 Design and evaluate trial-based and free-operant procedures.
A derived measure of behavior that involves calculating the number of occurrences of a given response within a given period of time (e.g., number of mands per hour). Answers the
An indirect assessment method in which individuals knowledgeable about the occurrence of the behavior of interest and the relevant environmental variables, answer questions by making selections from a closed set
When challenging behaviors reemerge because of an abruptly thinned reinforcement schedule.
Refers to the changes in an individual’s behavior due to the presence of an observer.
C-8 Evaluate the validity and reliability of measurement procedures.
D.3 Identify threats to internal validity (e.g., history, maturation).
A response to novel, untrained combinations of stimuli that were taught in different contexts (e.g., learning to tact “red apple” and “green tomato”, and without training, correctly tacting, “red tomato”
When the rate of a target behavior temporarily increases back to, or above, baseline levels, after a punishment procedure is discontinued.
A stimulus prompt that helps a learner make a correct discrimination by pairing the correct choice with one or more stimulus or response dimensions (e.g., color, size, shape).
A type of conditioned motivating operation that is established when a stimulus comes before and signals the onset of pain/something aversive, making it so that the removal of this warning