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| Applied, behavioral, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic, effective, generality |
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| A two-phase experimental design consisting of a pretreatment baseline condition (A) followed by a treatment condition (B) |
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| immediacy of reinforcement |
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| the more immediate the reinforcer is provided following a behavior, the more likely you are to be reinforcing that target behavior and not something else that has happened in the meantime. |
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| independent group contingency |
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| A contingency in which reinforcement for each member of a group is dependent on that person’s meeting a performance criterion that is in effect for all members of the group. |
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| The variable that is systematically manipulated by the researcher in an experiment to see whether changes in the independent variable produce reliable changes in the dependent variable. In applied behavior analysis, it is usually an environmental event or condition antecedent or consequent to the dependent variable. |
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