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1. Task Analysis: taking a difficult, complex task and breaking it up into smaller
steps that
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2. Parametric analysis: involves altering the value of the independent variable
to determine how much of the independent variable is necessary to control the
behavior.
3. Component Analysis: involves systematically removing components of an intervention package to see which components are actually controlling the behavior.
4. Redundancy cue: You have five picture cards with different animal pictures on
them. You printed the pictures off so that the picture of the cow is brighter than
all the other pictured animals. You then present these five picture cards to a client
and you tell him to point to the picture of the cow. He successfully points to it. The
brightened color on the picture of the cow serves as a stimulus that is paired with
the correct response.
5. Position cue: Item being taught placed closer to student
6. movement cue: Pointing to, tapping, touching, looking at item being taught
7. behavioral momentum: increased tendency for a learner to make a particular
response immediately after making similar responses
8. What is the ultimate goal of mand training?: The mand will be controlled
solely by the motivation for the item. Even though the sight of the item may increasethe motivation to ask for the time (think of a child seeing the ice cream truck), the
ultimate goal would be for motivation alone to control the behavior of asking for
the item since the item may not always be in sight. Mands shouldn't be controlled
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by another person saying the item first or by someone asking the learner what he
wants.
9. dependent group contingency: the reward for the whole group is dependent
on the performance of an individual student or small group
10. Premack principle: commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less
fre- quent behavior
11. Generalized Conditioned Reinforcer: a stimulus that functions as a reinforcer because it has been paired with multiple backup reinforcers.
12. trials-to-criterion: involve setting a predetermined criterion and tracking how
many trials it took to reach that criterion
13. rate: frequency divided by some unit of time
14. Respondent extinction: The repeated presentation of a conditioned stimulus
in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus; the CS gradually loses its ability to
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elicit the conditioned response until the conditioned reflex no longer appears in the
individual's repertoire.
When Michelle was a child, a centipede crawled on her and bit her on her arm in herparent's basement while playing hide and seek with her siblings. This resulted in
Michelle having an extreme fear of centipedes in adulthood. Last week, a behavior
analyst began working with Michelle to decrease her fear of centipedes. She took
Michelle to her parent's basement where she had been bitten by a centipede and
the behavior analyst brought a couple centipedes and exposed her to them without
them biting her or crawling on her. Eventually, Michelle was no longer afraid of
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