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The self-management tactic to which Skinner referred to as “doing something else” is a key element of

Gretchen has been trying to teach Glen, a preschooler, to pull up his pants by himself via shaping. She began by delivering reinforcement for bending over and touching his waistband. Glen is now doing that consistently. Next, Gretchen targeted Glen pulling his pants up a little bit. However, Glen continues to simply touch his pants instead of pulling them up a bit.

Your dog sits at the front door indicating he wants to go outside. You immediately begin looking for the dog’s leash, so you can take him for a walk. In relation to looking for the leash, your dog sitting at the front door is a

A behavior therapist working with a student asks the student to select the picture of an apple from a comparison array. This type of training procedure is an example of teaching

Appropriate functional alternatives to problem behavior

Through equivalence-based instruction, a learner forms four classes of three visual stimuli each. If you teach them to tact one of those stimuli, you would expect each of the other stimuli in the class to evoke the same response.

Which type of verbal operant is controlled by verbal SD s?

A BCBA was coaching a mother through a clean-up activity with her daughter. At one point, the mother instructed the daughter to give her an item and the daughter dropped to the floor and began crying. The BCBA asked the mother to get up, walk a few steps away from her daughter, and turn her back to the child. The mother did as asked and resumed interacting with her daughter after her daughter got up from the floor and stopped crying. This procedure most closely exemplifies

If progress breaks down while conducting imitation training, the practitioner should

An antecedent stimulus that evokes the imitative behavior is