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ABA Questions and Answers Already Passed ABA Reversal ✔✔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 ✔✔Excessive (possibly arbitrary) behaviors that occur between trials or between reinforcers. analytical pragmatism ✔✔A set of principles and philosophies that reflect a commitment to practical, behavioral methods of assessment and analysis. appetitive stimulus ✔✔A positively reinforcing stimulus. applied behavior analysis ✔✔The use of basic behavior principles to analyze and solve practical problems. aversion therapy ✔✔A Pavlovian procedure in which stimuli that elicit inappropriate behaviors are paired with an aversive stimulus (shock, emetics, ammonia) to produce strong conditioned responses (nausea, fear, etc). Used to treat child molestation, alcohol abuse, etc. aversive stimulus ✔✔A noxious or unpleasant stimulus. backward chaining ✔✔A method used to train chained performances in which the last behavior in the chain is trained first; then each preceding behavior is gradually introduced. baseline ✔✔The base rate of behavior, before intervention, against which the efficacy of experimental manipulations is compared. behavior analysis ✔✔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 ✔✔Teaching of a new behavior that becomes trapped (or maintained) through natural contingencies of reinforcement. behavioral medicine ✔✔A behavior change program that targets health-related activities such as patient compliance, taking medicines, exercise regimens, etc.. behavioral repertoire ✔✔The full set of behaviors that an organism does. Everything that an organism does, including both overt and covert actions, like thinking. belongingness ✔✔The idea that a subject's evolution [Show More]

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