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Abative Effect ✔✔a decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by
the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same mo
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ABA Questions and Answers with
Verified Solutions
Abative Effect ✔✔a decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by
the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation. Ex:
Food ingestion abates (decreases the current frequency of) behavior that has been reinforced by
food.
Abolishing Operation ✔✔A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of
a stimulus, object, or event. Ex: the reinforcing effectiveness of food is abolished as a result of
food ingestion.
Adjunctive Behavior / Schedule-Induced Behavior ✔✔Behavior that occurs as a collateral effect
of a schedule of periodic reinforcement for other behavior: time filling or interim activities
(doodling, idle talking, smoking, drinking) that are induced by schedules of reinforcement during
times when reinforcement is unlikely to be delivered.
Antecedent ✔✔Environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a
behavior of interest.
Antecedent Intervention ✔✔A behavior change strategy that manipulates contingency
independent antecedent stimuli (motivating operations)
Applied Behavior Analysis ✔✔The science in which tactics derived from the principles of
behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to
identify the variables responsible for the improvement of behavior.
Arbitrary Stimulus Class ✔✔Antecedent stimuli that evoke the same response but do not
resemble each other in physical form or share a relational aspect such as bigger or under (ex:
peanuts, cheese, coconut milk are members of the same arbitrary stimulus class if the evoke the
response "sources of protein".)
Artifact ✔✔An outcome or result that appears to exist because of the way it is measured but in
fact does not correspond to what actually occurred.
Autoclitic ✔✔a secondary verbal operant in which some aspect of a speakers own verbal
behavior functions as an Sd or MO for additional speaker verbal behavior. The autoclitic relation
can be thought of as verbal behavior about verbal behavior.
Automatic Reinforcement ✔✔Reinforcement that o
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