Treatment package
An intervention plan, typically for behavior reduction, with two or more independent variables interacting simultaneously.
Trial-based FA
A variation of the functional analysis that uses a trial-based format to evaluate the occurrence and nonoccurrence of challenging behaviors given the presentation of an opportunity (trial) to emit the
Trials to criterion
The specification of the number of response opportunities required to achieve a pre-specified level of performance criteria.
5th Edition Task List
C-6 Measure trials to criterion.
6th Edition TCO
C.7 Measure efficiency (e.g., trials to criterion, cost-benefit analysis, training duration).
Type I error
When research outcomes result in a false positive, meaning they are interpreted as effective when actually they were not.
Type II error
When research outcomes result in a false negative, meaning they are interpreted as ineffective when actually they were effective.
Unconditioned motivating operation
States of satiation and deprivation in the presence of events, operations, and stimulus conditions that a person needs or values inherently without training.
Unconditioned punisher
A stimulus change that decreases the frequency of any behavior immediately preceding it regardless of the organism’s learning history with that stimulus.
Unconditioned reinforcer
A stimulus change that can increase the future frequency of behavior without any learning history or prior pairing with any other form of reinforcement.
Unconditioned response (UR)
An unlearned, automatic response (reflex) that is elicited by an unconditioned stimulus.