Glossary of ABA Terms
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B
C
- Celeration
- Changing Criterion design
- CMO-R (Reflexive CMO)
- CMO-S (Surrogate CMO)
- CMO-T (Transitive CMO)
- Comorbidity
- Comparative Analysis
- Component Analysis
- Conceptually Systematic
- Concurrent schedule of reinforcement
- Conditional Probability
- Conditioned Negative Reinforcer
- Conditioned Punishers
- Conditioned Reinforcer
- Confounding variables
- Consequence
- Contingency
- Contingency Shaped Behavior
- Contingent Reinforcement or punishment
- Continuous measurement
- Continuous reinforcement (CRF)
- Count
- Cumulative record
- Cumulative Recorder
D
- Data
- Dependent group contingency
- Dependent Variable
- Deprivation
- Differential Reinforcement
- Differential Reinforcement of Alternative behaviors (DRA)
- Differential Reinforcement of Diminishing Rates (DRD)
- Differential Reinforcement of High Rates of Behavior (DRH)
- Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
- Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Behavior (DRL)
- Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
- Direct Assessments
- Discontinuous measurement
- Discrete Trial Training (DTT)
- Discriminative Stimulus (Sd)
- DSM-5
- Duration
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F
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N
O
P
- Parametric Analysis
- Parsimony
- Partial interval recording
- Percent of occurrence
- Permanent product
- Philosophic Doubt
- Pivotal Behavior
- Planned activity check (PLACHECK)
- Planned Ignoring
- Positive Practice Overcorrection
- Positive Punishment
- Positive Reinforcement
- Potential Reinforcers
- Pragmatism
- Precision teaching
- Preference assessment
- Premack principle
- Procedural fidelity
- Progressive ratio schedule of reinforcement
- Prompt
- Punishment
R
- Rate
- Ratio Strain
- Reactivity
- Reflex
- Reinforcement
- Reinforcer
- Reinforcer assessment
- Relevance of behavior rule
- Repeatability
- Repertoire
- Respondent Behavior
- Respondent Conditioning
- Respondent Extinction
- Response
- Response Class
- Response Cost
- Response Generalization
- Response Prompt
- Restitutional Overcorrection
- Reversal design
- Rule Governed Behavior
S
- S-Delta
- Satiation
- Scatterplot
- SD (Discriminative Stimulus)
- Self Injurious Behavior
- Self-Management
- Self-monitoring
- Sequence effect
- Shaping
- Social validity
- Socially Mediated
- Socially Valid
- Standard celeration chart
- Stimulus
- Stimulus class
- Stimulus Control
- Stimulus Equivalence
- Stimulus Generalization
- Stimulus Prompt
- Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing
- Successive approximation
T
- Target Behavior
- Task Analysis
- Technological
- Temporal Extent
- Temporal Locus
- Terminal Behavior
- The Four Functions of Behavior
- Three Term Contingency
- Time sampling
- Timing
- Token economy
- Topographical based definition
- Topography
- Transitivity
- Treatment drift
- Treatment Integrity
- Trend
- Trials to Criterion
- Type 1 error
- Type 2 error