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Applied Behavior Analysis

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A-B Design
a two phase experimental design consisting of a pre-treatment baseline condition (A) followed by a treatment condition (B).
A-B-A Design
An experiment entailing one reversal
A-B-A-B Design
an experiment reintroducing the B condition enables the replication of treatment effects, which strengthens the demonstration of experimental control
abative effect
A decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation
ABC recording
The preferred method to use for behavioral assessment to determine which behavior to target for change is:
Abolishing operation
A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event.
Accuracy
The extent to which observed values, the data produced by measuring an event, match the true state, or true values, of the event as it exists in nature
Adjunctive Behavior
behavior that occurs as a collateral effect of a schedule of periodic reinforcement for other behavior: time-filling or interim activities that are induced by schedules of reinforcement during times when reinforcement is unlikely to be derived-aka schedule-induced behavior
Affirmation of the Consequent
the predictive power of steady state responding enables the behavior analyst to employ a kind of inductive logic
Alternating Treatments Design
the rapid alternation of two or more distinct treatments while their effects on the target behavior are measured
Alternative schedule
provides positive reinforcement whenever the requirement of either a ratio schedule or interval schedule is met, regardless of which of the component schedule's requirement is met first.
anecdotal observation
a form of direct, continuous observation in which the observer records a descriptive, temporally sequenced account of all behavior(s) of interest and the antecedent conditions and consequences for those behaviors as those events occur in the client's natural environment
antecedent
An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
antecedent intervention
A behavior change strategy that manipulates contingency-independent antecedent stimuli (motivating operation).
artifact
an outcome or result that appears to exist because of the way it is measured but in fact does not correspond to what actually occurred
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