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ABA Melmark ExamQuestions and Complete
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"A science that focuses on objectively defined, observable of social significance." - Answer: Applied
Behavior Analysis
Correcting consequences of misbehavior by having restore the situation to a state vastly improved. -
Answer: Restitutional Overcorrection
Repeated practice of an appropriate alternative to a misbehavior - Answer: Positive Practice
Overecorrection
A stimulus in the presents of which a behavior had been reinforced - Answer: SD (Discrimative Stimulus)
Bahavior is emitted more often in the presence of the SD than during the absence - Answer: Stimulus
Control
Tendency to respond to new stmuli that have similar physical properties to the trained stimulus -
Answer: Stimulus Generalization
The extent to which the learner performs a variety of functional responses in addition to the trained
response - Answer: Response Generalization
"Behavior changes across setting, people, conditions" - Answer: Generalization
The extent to which the learner continues to perform the target behavior after training - Answer:
Maintenance
, A document that specifies a contingent relationship between the completion of a specified behavior and
access to a specified reward - Answer: Contingency Contract (also known as a Behvioral Contract)
The withdrawal of positive reinforcement or the loss of access to positive reinforcers for a specified
period of time - Answer: Time-Out
Way of structuring a teaching enviornment to increase learning opportunities - Answer: Descrete Trials
Any antecedent stimulus that is topographically identical to the behavior the trainer wants imitated -
Answer: Modeling
Systematically and differentially reinforcing successive approximations to a terminal behavior - Answer:
Behavior shaping
Any observable measurable act - Answer: A behavior
A sequence of stimuli and responses that end in a SR+ - Answer: Behavior Chain
Functional Communication Training - Answer: FCT
A count of responses. Also referred to as event recording - Answer: Frequency Recording
Approach to changing behavior based on direct observation and measurement - Answer: Behavior
Approach
The behavior an individual s capable of performing - Answer: Behavior Repertoire
A previously neutral stimulus that has acquired it's reinforcing properties by being paired with an
unconditional reinforcer - Answer: Conditioned Reinforcer
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