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| A stimulus in the presence of which responses of some type have been reinforced and in the absence of which the same type of responses have occurred and not been reinforced in the past. |
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| A stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has NOT produced reinforcement in the past. |
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| Behavior that is evoked when encountering similar stimuli. |
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| Controlled by the description of a contingency without direct contact with that contingency, or a delay between action and contact with the consequence. |
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| Differential reinforcement vs. extinction or punishment. |
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| Emitting functionally equivalent untrained responses. |
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| Contingency based behavior |
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| Controlled by the perceived immediate consequences in the current environment. |
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| Designed to become discriminative stimuli. When you ask someone to turn out the lights, you hope to encourage compliance with this instruction by thanking the person who complied. |
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| an agreement that a student/client will complete a given task for a reward. |
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| Independent Group Contingency (IGC) |
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| Contingency presented to all members, but reinforcement provided only to members who reach the criterion. "Everyone for themselves" |
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| Dependent Group Contingency (DGC) |
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| Reward/reinforcement for the whole group is dependent on a individual or small group. "Hero procedure" |
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| Interdependent Group Contingency |
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| All members must meet the criterion before any member earns a reward. "All or none." |
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| accurate responding to untrained and non-reinforced stimulus-stimulus relations following reinforcement of responses to trained/conditioned stimulus-stimulus relations. |
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| A=A One stimulus and another just like it are similar or equivalent to each other. |
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| A=B Relation of two items that are similar but not exactly the same. E.G. Picture of bat and the spoken word bat. |
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| A=C The leap to concluding that two stimuli are similar even though their relation has not been directly taught. E.G. If the response boy is evoked by the stimulus of a picture of a boy and by the written word boy, then seeing a child point and say boy when a boy walks into the room is transitivity. |
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| Responding on separate schedules, and that a change in one schedule will tend to cause an opposite change in the other. |
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| The relative rates of response match the relative rates of reinforcement for two or more behaviors. |
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| High Probability (High-P) |
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| Behavioral Momentum: an antecedent intervention where 2-5 tasks with a known history of learner compliance are presented in quick succession immediately before requesting the target task. |
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| Grandma's rule: Use of a high-probability behavior to reinforce a lower probability behavior. |
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| Those which are already reinforcing. |
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| Items or vents that are already aversive to an individual. |
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| a student is not allowed to make a mistake on any trial. |
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| Teaching procedure where a stimulus is presented (sample) and the child must select the correct match from a comparison selection. |
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