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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)   show
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show A variation of the multielement design for comparing the efficiency of instructional procedures. The comparison phase of the design features the alternating application of two or more different teaching methods.  
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show A method for conducting a component analysis in which components are assessed individually or in combination before the complete treatment package is presented  
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show Behavior that occurs as a collateral effect of a schedule of periodic reinforcement for other behavior; time-filling or interim activities that are induced by schedules of reinforcement during times when reinforcement is unlikely to be delivered  
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show A three-step form of reasoning that begins with a true antecedent-consequent (if A, then B) statement: 1) If A is true, B is true; 2) B is found to be true; 3) therefore, A is true  
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Alternative Schedule (alt)   show
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show An antecedent intervention, implemented independently of occurrences of the problem behavior that usually has clients engage in some effortful for of aerobic activity  
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show A set of stimuli that share a common relationship  
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show Forming new stimulus classes with little or no reinforced practice  
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Arbitrary Relations   show
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Arbitrary Stimulus Class   show
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Artifact   show
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show Provide structure among verbal operants in terms of order, agreement, grouping, and composition of larger units of verbal behavior such as sentences  
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show Involves supplemental control by an MO related to some aspects of the speaker's primary verbal response  
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Autoclitic Tact   show
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Automatic Contingencies   show
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Backward Chaining with Leaps Ahead   show
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show A simple and versatile graphic format for summarizing behavioral data; shared most of the line graphs features except that it does not have distinct data points representing successive response measures through time  
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show A term sometimes used to refer to the experimental reasoning inherent in single-subject experimental designs; entails three elements: prediction, verification, and replication  
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show An intervention that relies on the participants skill to initially perform all the critical elements of a chain independently, but the chain is then interrupted, so that another behavior can be prompted or emitted  
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show A contingency that specifies a time interval by which a behavior chain must be completed for reinforcement to be delivered  
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Behavior Chain Tactic   show
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show An itemized list (usually in hierarchical order) that provides descriptions of specific skills and the conditions under which each skill should be observed.  
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show An interrelated community of contingencies of reinforcement that can be especially powerful, producing substantial and long-lasting behavior changes  
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Behavioral Inflexibility   show
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show The extent in which the researcher convinces herself and others that the data are trustworthy and deserve interpretation  
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Bidirectional Naming (BiN)   show
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Bonus Response Cost   show
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show An analysis in which only one or two 5-10 minute sessions are conducted for each condition  
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show The process of comparing the data produced by a measurement system to a known standard or true value, and when sources of error are found, using that information to correct or improve the measurement system  
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show If-then relationships (e.g if A, then B; if B, then C) that are a central feature of understanding and doing science  
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show The change (acceleration or deceleration) in rate of responding over time; based on count per unit of time (rate); expressed as a factor by which responding is accelerating or decelerating (multiplying or dividing)  
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show A unit of time in which celeration is plotted on a Standard Celeration Chart  
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show The celeration trend line is measured as a factor by which rate multiplies or divides across the celeration time periods  
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Chained Schedule   show
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show Various methods for linking specific sequences of stimuli and responses to form new performances  
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show A new member us added to a demonstrated stimulus equivalence class as the result of teaching a new conditional discrimination  
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Class Merger   show
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show A match-to-sample procedure in which not only is the correct comparison choice conditional on the sample stimulus, but the type of consequence delivered is, too; class-specific consequences themselves become members of the equivalence classes  
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show A term popularized by Pryor (1999) for shaping behavior using conditioned reinforcement in the form of an auditory stimulus such as a handheld device that produces a clicking sound when pressed.  
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show A type of verbal behavior where the form of the response is under the functional control of a verbal stimulus with point-to-point correspondence, but without formal similarity  
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show A relation involving two stimuli that both participate in mutual entailment with some common third stimulus  
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Compound Schedule   show
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Compound Verbal Discrimination   show
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show A stimulus class whose members share a common set of features  
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Concurrent Chains Design   show
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Conditional Discrimination   show
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show The likelihood that a target behavior will occur in a given circumstance  
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show A previously neutral stimulus change that functions as a negative reinforcer because of prior pairing with one or more negative reinforcers  
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Conditioned Reflex   show
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Confidentiality   show
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Conjunctive Schedule (conj)   show
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show A procedure for transferring stimulus control from contrived response prompts to naturally existing stimuli  
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Contextual Control   show
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Contextual Stimulus   show
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show A mutually agreed-upon document between parties (e.g., parent and child) describing a contingent relationship between the completion of specified behavior(s) and access to specified reinforcer(s).  
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Contingency Reversal   show
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Contingency-Shaped Behavior   show
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show Describes reinforcement (or punishment) that is delivered only after the target behavior has occurred  
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Contingency Space Analysis   show
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Contingent Observation   show
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Contrived Contingency   show
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Contrived Mediating Stimulus   show
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show A simple tally of the number of occurrences of a behavior  
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Countercontrol   show
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show The period of time in which a count of the number of responses emitted is recorded  
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show A device that automatically draws cumulative records (graphs) that show the rate of response in real time; each time a response is emitted, a pen moves upward across paper that continuously moves at a constant speed  
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show A relation between the self, as one stimulus, and other stimuli from the external world  
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show A phenomenon in which delayed rewards, regardless of their significance and magnitude, exert decreasing influence over choice-making behavior as a function of their temporal distance from present circumstances  
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Delayed Multiple Baseline Design   show
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Derived Stimulus Relations   show
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Descending Baseline   show
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Descriptive Functional Behavior Assessment   show
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Differential Reinforcement of Diminishing Rates (DRD)   show
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Direct Measurement   show
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Disciplinary Standards   show
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show Measurement conducted in a manner such that some instances of the response class(es) of interest may not be detected  
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show An operant that occurs more frequently under some antecedent conditions than under others  
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show A contingency in which responding in the presence of a signal prevents the onset of a stimulus from which escape is a reinforcer  
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show A stimulus in the presence of which a given behavior has been punished and in the absence of which that behavior has not been punished  
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Distinction Relation   show
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show A procedure that prevents the subject and the experimenter(s) from detecting the presence or absence of the treatment variable  
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DRI/DRA Reversal Technique   show
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DRO Reversal Technique   show
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show A method for conducting a component analysis in which the investigator presents the treatment package and then systematically removes the components  
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Duplic   show
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Elementary Verbal Operants   show
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Emergent Stimulus Relations   show
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Enriched Environment   show
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show An antecedent intervention that provides noncontingent access to preferred sources of reinforcement (e.g., toys, games, social, and recreational activities)  
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show A scale in which equal distances on the axis represent equal absolute amounts of the variable plotted on the axis.  
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show A porobe for the emergence of untrained stimulus-stimulus relations that evaluates both symmetry and transitivity simultaneously  
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Equivalence-Class Formation   show
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Errorless Learning   show
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Ethical Codes of Behavior   show
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Evocative Effect (a motivating operation)   show
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show The percentage of total intervals in which two observers recorded the same count; the most stringent description of IOA for most data sets obtained by event recording  
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Exclusion (training)   show
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show A fictitious or hypothetical variable that often takes the form of another name for the observed phenomenon it claims to explain and contributes nothing to a functional account or understanding of the phenomenon  
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Extinction-Induced Variablility   show
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show Any aspect of the experimental setting that must be held constant to prevent unplanned environmental variation (e.g., temperature, lighting)  
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show Stimuli that share common physical forms or structures (e.g., made from wood, four legs, round, blue) or common relative relationships (e.g., bigger than, hotter than, higher than, next to)  
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Fixed-Interval DRO (FI-DRO)   show
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Fixed-Momentary DRO (FM-DRO)   show
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show Occurs when the controlling antecedent stimulus and the response or response product (a) share the same send mode and (b) physically resemble each other  
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Fraudulent Conduct   show
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Free Operant   show
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show A contingency in which responses at any time during an interval prior to the scheduled onset of an aversive stimulus delays the presentation of the aversive stimulus  
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Full-Session DRL   show
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Function-Altering Effect (relevant to operant relations)   show
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show Designates responses as members of the targeted response class solely in terms of their common effects on the environment  
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show Serving the same function or purpose  
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show A generic term for a variety of behavioral processes and behavior change outcomes  
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Generalization Across Subjects   show
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show Any measurement of a learner's performance of a target behavior in a setting and/or stimulus situation in which direct training has not been provided  
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show Any place or stimulus situation that differs in some meaningful way from the instructional setting and in which performance of the target behavior is desired  
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show A behavior change that has not been taught directly  
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show A term often used when a learner imitates a wide variety of unprompted, untrained, non-reinforced modeled behaviors in different settings and situations  
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show A behavioral effect whereby previously acquired speaker and listener skills enable or accelerate the acquisition of other speaker and listener skills, without dependence on direct teaching or a history of reinforcement  
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show A tact evoked by a novel stimulus that shares all of the relevant or defining features associated with the original stimulus  
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Good Behavior Game   show
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Graph   show
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show Occurs when a person's repertoire has been changed such that short- and long-term reinforcers are maximized and short- and long- term punishers are minimized  
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show A multiple-component treatment package for reducing unwanted habits such as fingernail biting and muscle tics  
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Habituation   show
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Hero Procedure   show
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show A nested stimulus relation in which a category, subsuming multiple stimuli, is itself a member of a higher-order category subsuming multiple stimuli  
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High-Probability (high-p) Request Sequence   show
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show Development of a conditioned reflex by pairing of a neutral stimulus (NS) with a conditioned stimulus (CS)  
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Higher-Order Operant Class   show
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show An inclusive term referring in general to all of a person's learning experiences and more specifically to past conditioning with respect to particular response classes or aspects of a person's repertoire  
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Hypothetical Construct   show
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show A systematic, research-based set of procedures for teaching a non-imitative learner to imitate models of novel behaviors  
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show A verbal operant involving a response that is evoked by both an MO and a nonverbal stimulus; thus, the response is part mand and part tact  
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Indirect Functional Assessment   show
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show Occurs when the behavior that is measured is in some way different from the behavior of interest  
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show A contingency that makes it difficult for the learner to discriminate whether the next response will produce reinforcement  
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Instructional Setting   show
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Intermittent Schedule of Reinforcement (INT)   show
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Interrupted Chain Procedure   show
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Interval DRL   show
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Interval-by-Interval IOA   show
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Interview-Informed Synthesized Contingency Analysis   show
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show Some verbal stimuli only supplement other more critical antecedents, but nonetheless they play with a causal role in evoking behavior  
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Irreversibility   show
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show A phenomenon in which two separate, but interrelated forms of a person's own verbal behavior, combine to acquire stimulus control of a response that would not have occurred in the absence of either  
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show A schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is contingent on a response being different in some specified way from the previous response or a specified number of previous responses  
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show An analysis in which each session is terminated as soon as a problem behavior occurs  
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Least- to - Most Response Prompts   show
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show A component of some token economy systems in which participants advance up (or down) through a succession of levels contingent on their behavior at the current level  
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Line Graph   show
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show When verbal SD evokes a specific nonverbal behavior, due to a history of reinforcement  
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show The average rate of response during a smaller period of time within a larger period off which an overall response rate has been given  
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show A self-directed behavior change technique in which the person forces herself to perform an undesired behavior repeatedly, which sometimes decreases the future frequency of the behavior  
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show A discrete trial procedure for investigating conditional relations and stimulus equivalence  
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Mean Count-per-Interval IOA   show
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Mean Duration-per-Occurance IOA   show
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Measurement   show
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show Non-random measurement error; a form of inaccurate measurement in which the data consistently overestimate or underestimate the true value of an event  
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show A tact evoked by a novel stimulus that shares some, but not all, of the relevant features of the original stimulus  
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show A philosophical position that views behavioral events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science  
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show A tact evoked by a novel stimulus that shares none of the relevant features of the original stimulus configuration, but some irrelevant yet related feature has acquired stimulus control  
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Mixed Schedule (mix)   show
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Modeling   show
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show A technique of transferring stimulus control in which the practitioner physically guides the participant through the entire performance sequence, and then gradually reduces the level of assistance in successive trials  
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Motor Imitation (relating to sign language)   show
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Multielement Design   show
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Multiple Baseline Across Behaviors Design   show
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Multiple Baseline Across Setting Design   show
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show A multiple baseline design in which the treatment variable is applied to the same behavior of two or more subjects in the same setting  
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show There are two types of multiple control  
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show A variation of the multiple baseline design that features intermittent measures, or probes, during baseline  
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Multiple Schedule (mult)   show
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Multiple Treatment Interference   show
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Multiple Treatment Reversal Design   show
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show A bidirectional stimulus relation in which one direction is directly learned and the other is derived  
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Naive Observer   show
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Naturally Existing Contingency   show
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Negligence   show
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show A stimulus change that does not elicit respondent behavior  
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show A stimulus set that must be held in common across a minimum of two conditional discriminations to provide a basis for all equivalence properties  
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Non-Equivalence Relations   show
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Noncontingent Reinforcement (NCR) Reversal Technique   show
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Nonconcurrent Multiple Baseline Across Participant Design   show
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show As a philosophy and principle, the belief that people with disabilities should, to the maximum extent possible, be physically and socially integrated into the mainstream of society regardless of the degree of type of disability  
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Observed Value   show
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Observer Reactivity   show
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Overall Response Rate   show
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Overselective Stimulus Control   show
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Overshadowing   show
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Partition Time-Out   show
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Percentage   show
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Perspective Shifting   show
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Pivotal Behavior   show
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Placebo Control   show
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show A variation of momentary time sampling in which the observer records whether each person in a group is engaged in the target behavior at specific points in time  
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Planned Ignoring   show
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Point-to-Point Correspondence   show
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show Improvements in performance resulting from opportunities to perform a behavior repeatedly so that baseline measures can be obtained  
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show A philosophical position asserting that the truth value of a statement is determined by how well it promotes effective action  
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show An instructional approach that involves pinpointing the skills to be learned  
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Principle of Behavior   show
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Private Events   show
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Procedural Fidelity   show
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Programming Common Stimuli   show
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show A variation of a fixed ratio (FR) schedule of reinforcement that increases the ratio requirements incrementally within the session  
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show A schedule that systematically thins each successive reinforcement opportunity independent of the individual's behavior  
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Progressive Time Delay   show
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Range-Bound Changing Criterion Design   show
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show A scale in which equal distances on a graphs axis correspond to equal ratios of change in the variable plotted on the axis  
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show Effects of an observation and measurement procedure on the behavior being measured  
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Recombinative Generalization   show
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show The occurrence of a previously punished type of response without its punishing consequence  
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Reflex   show
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show A stimulus that acquires MO effectiveness by preceding some form of worsening or improvement  
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Reflexivity   show
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show A decrease in the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event caused by a motivating operations  
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Reinforcer-Establishing Effect (of a motivating operation)   show
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Relational Frame   show
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show A theory of derived stimulus relations proposing that stimulus relations are inherently verbal and that accumulated experience with relational exemplars creates generalized repertoires of relating  
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Relevance of Behavior Rule   show
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show Repeating conditions within an experiment to determine the reliability of effects and increase internal validity  
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Research Question   show
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show The repeated presentation of a conditioned stimulus (CS) in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus (US)  
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Response Differentiation   show
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show A procedural variation of response blocking that involves interrupting stereotypic behavior at its onset and redirecting the individual to complete high probability behavior instead  
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show Prompts that operate directly on the response to cue a correct response  
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Response-Deprivation Hypothesis   show
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Restraint   show
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show Refers to the reoccurrence of a previously reinforced behavior when reinforcement for an alternative behavior is terminated or decreased and to the three-phase procedure that produces the effect  
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Risk-Benefit Analysis   show
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Scatterplot   show
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show A procedure for recording the extent to which a target behavior occurs more often at particular times than others  
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show A rule specifying the environmental arrangements and response requirements for reinforcement  
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Score-Interval IOA   show
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Selection by Consequences   show
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Selection-Based Verbal Behavior   show
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Selectionism   show
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show Contingency contract that a person makes with himself or herself incorporating a self-selected task and reward as well as personal monitoring of task completion and self-delivery of the reward  
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show Skinner (1953) conceptualized self-control as a two-response phenomenon: the controlling response affects variables in such a way as to change the probability of the controlled response  
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show A person's ability to "delay gratification" by emitting a response that will produce a larger delayed reward over a response that produces a smaller but immediate rewards  
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show A procedure in which a person compares her performance of a target behavior with a predetermined goal or standard  
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show Self-generated verbal responses, covert or overt, that function as rules or response prompts for a desired behavior  
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show The personal application of behavior change tactics that produces a desired change in behavior  
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show A procedure whereby a person systematically observes his behavior and records the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a target behavior  
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Semilogarithmic Chart   show
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show A procedure by which behaviors maintained by automatic reinforcement are placed on extinction by masking or removing the sensory consequence  
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Sequence Effects   show
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Setting/Situation Generalization   show
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Simple Discrimination   show
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Simple Verbal Discrimination   show
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Simple-to-Complex Testing Protocol   show
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show A contingency in which an antecedent stimulus and/or the consequence for the behavior is presented by another person  
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Solistic (tact) Extension   show
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show A procedure for implementing DRL in which reinforcement follows each occurrence of the target behavior that is separated from the previous response by a minimum interresponse time  
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show Responding jointly to two stimuli on the basis of their juxtaposition in space  
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Standard Celeration Chart   show
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Steady State Responding   show
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Steady State Strategy   show
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Stimulus   show
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Stimulus Blocking   show
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Stimulus Discrimination   show
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Stimulus Fading   show
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Stimulus Generalization Gradient   show
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show Prompts that operate directly on the antecedent task stimuli to cue a correct response in conjunction with the critical Sd  
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show Refers to two different forms of stimulus control that can result from a match-to-sample procedure involving one sample stimulus and two comparison stimuli  
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Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing   show
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Surrogate Conditioned Motivating Operation (CMO-S)   show
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Symmetry   show
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Systematic Desensitization   show
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Tact Extension   show
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Taking Dictation   show
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show A schedule of reinforcement identical to the chained schedule except, like the mix schedule, the tandem schedule does not use discriminative stimuli with the elements in the chain  
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show Randomly varying functionally irrelevant stimuli within and ross teaching sessions  
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show Refers to the fact that every instance of behavior occurs during some amount of time; one of the three dimensional quantities of behavior from which all behavioral measurements are derived  
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show Refers to the fact that every instance of behavior occurs at a certain point in time with respect to other events (i.e., when in time behavior occurs can be measured)  
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show Responding jointly to two stimuli on the basis of their juxtaposition in time  
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Time Delay   show
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Topography-Based Definition   show
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show A category of verbal behavior in which the listener is affected by a specific response topography emitted by the speaker  
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Total Count IOA   show
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Total Duration IOA   show
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show Refers to dimensions of procedural arrangements when teaching multiple conditional discriminations  
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show Occurs when teaching a new function for one member of an established equivalence class results in the same function holding for all members of the class  
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show Occurs when the behavioral function of one stimulus in a stimulus class changes as a predictable function of the behavior function of other stimuli in the class  
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Transitive Conditioned Motivating Operation (CMO-T)   show
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Transitivity   show
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Treatment Drift   show
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show A behavioral intervention consisting of multiple components (e.g., contingent praise, tokens, and extinction)  
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Trial-Based Functional Analysis   show
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show An IOA index for discrete trial data based on comparing the observers' counts (0 or 1) on a trial-by-trial, or item-by-item basis  
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show A measure accepted as a quantitative description of the true state of some dimensional quantity of an event as it exists in nature  
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show A special form of event recording; a measure of the number of responses or practice opportunities needed for a person to achieve a pre-established level of accuracy or proficiency  
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Type I Error   show
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show An error that occurs when a researcher concludes that the independent variable had no effect on the dependent variable, when in truth it did  
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show Occurs when, in the case of a two-step chain, the second behavior in the chain (r2) produces reinforcement in the presence of the prior SD (s2) , but (r2) also produces reinforcement when that SD is not present. Unchaining may weaken a chain  
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show A motivating operation whose value-altering effect does not depend on a learning history  
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show A stimulus that functions as a negative reinforcer as a result of the evolutionary development of the species (phylogeny); no prior learning is involved  
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show An unlearned stimulus response functional relation consisting of an antecedent stimulus (e.g., food in mouth) that elicits the response (e.g., salivation)  
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show Two kinds: (a) the occurrence alone of a stimulus that acquired its function by being paired with an already effective stimulus, or (b) the occurrence of the stimulus in the absence as well as in the presence of the effective stimulus  
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Unscored-Interval IOA   show
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Value-Altering Effect (of a motivating operation)   show
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show Data points that do not consistently fall within a narrow range of values and do not suggest any clear trend  
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show A DRO procedure in which reinforcement is available at the end of intervals of variable duration and delivered contingent on the absence of the problem behavior during the interval  
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Variable-Momentary DRO (VM-DRO)   show
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show A type of convergent multiple control involving a verbal stimulus that alters the evocative effects of another verbal stimulus in the same antecedent configuration  
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show An interaction between a speaker and a listener  
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show Verbal stimuli can alter the functional effects of immediate or future SDs and MOs and, accordingly, change a listener's behavior  
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Video Modeling   show
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Video Self-Modeling   show
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Withdrawl Design   show
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