ABA Terms with their Definitions
ABA Reversal - Correct Answer️️ -A basic single-subject design in which baseline
measurements (A) are contrasted with measurements during treatment (B) across
conditions which alternate to determine causal effects.
adjunctive behavior - Correct Answer️️ ...
in which the last behavior in the chain is trained first; then each preceding behavior is
gradually introduced.
baseline - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The base rate of behavior, before intervention, against
which the efficacy of experimental manipulations is compared.
behavior analysis - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A comprehensive experimental approach to the
study of behavior with the objective of investigating, identifying, describing,and using the
general principles and laws which govern behavior.
behavior trapping - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Teaching of a new behavior that becomes
trapped (or maintained) through natural contingencies of reinforcement.
behavioral medicine - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A behavior change program that targets
health-related activities such as patient compliance, taking medicines, exercise
regimens, etc..
behavioral repertoire - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The full set of behaviors that an organism
does. Everything that an organism does, including both overt and covert actions, like
thinking.
belongingness - Correct Answer✔️✔️-The idea that a subject's evolutionary history
causes some responses and relationships to be more easily learned.
changing criterion - Correct Answer✔️✔️-A research design in which the rate of the target
response is progressively changed (up or down). Used when the final level of the target
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