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A _________ is a set of powerful and interrelated contingencies that are initially accessed by a low-effort response and that subsequently motivate an individual to acquire, extend, and/or maintain a set of responses.

Ms. Aguilera developed a contingency contract with the intention of helping her teenager to complete his chores. After a week he has only met the criterion twice. Of the following changes she could make, the one most likely to remedy this problem would be to

In __________, the client is taught to forgo engaging in the target behavior that is producing reinforcement for a designated amount of time. Fulfilling this requirement is the contingency for authorized access to the sensory or tangible reinforcer.

Reduced travel time, increased savings associated with travel costs, and the potential to provide supervision for individuals in rural or hard to reach areas who may not have access to locally qualified behavior analysts are potential benefits of:

Discounting the value of delayed rewards is a phenomenon associated with greater impulse control.

The first step in any professional relationship is to define ___________ between participating individuals.

A parent tells their children, “If everyone earns all ‘A’s on his or her report card you will each get $50 at the end of the semester.” This is an example of a(n)

The first step in any professional relationship is to define ___________ between participating individuals.

When designing a DRA or DRI intervention, it is a good idea to use the reinforcers that maintain problem behavior as the reinforcers for the alternative or incompatible behaviors.

One of the simplest ways of calculating reliability is to count the total number of responses scored (or the total number of intervals containing responses, depending on the data collection system) by each observer throughout the observation period, to divide the smaller number by the larger number, and to then multiply by 100. This is called: