A DRO was implemented for a young child with developmental delays to address reduction in the behavior of hair pulling. The child also has excessive levels of nose picking, and skin picking. Data collection needs to include rates of these behaviors as well due to the possible effects of behavioral:

Which procedure is the MOST reasonable and effective application of incidental teaching?

What is the reinforcing consequence in " I itch, therefore I scratch? "

Susan recorded data on a student ' s fidgeting behavior in the following way: She divided a 10-minute recording period into 10-second intervals and recorded in each interval a " + " if the target behavior occurred at least once. The percentage of intervals of target behavior occurrence was about 45%. The data resulting are most likely to be an

A functional relationship is said to exist when two events

Which of the following measures would be the MOST appropriate for reporting head banging during each 5-minute interval of work?

From an ethical standpoint, evaluation of treatment outcomes should occur through

An experimental design that starts with a baseline phase, followed by a treatment phase, then another baseline phase, and ends in the same type of treatment phase is called a (n):

A colleague who is friends with one of a behavior analyst ' s clients asks the behavior analyst during a break at a local peer review meeting how the case is going. The behavior analyst should

The defining feature of operant conditioning, as contrasted with respondent conditioning, is that the probability of behavior in operant conditioning is changed because of