What is Aversive Stimulus?
An aversive stimulus is something unpleasant or undesirable that happens after a behavior, which can decrease the likelihood of that behavior occurring again in the future.
Aversive Stimulus
A
- AB Design
- ABA Design
- ABAB Design
- Abative Effect
- ABC Recording
- Abolishing Operation (AO)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Accuracy
- Adapted Alternating Treatments Design
- Add-in Component Analysis
- Adjunctive Behaviors
- Affirmation of the Consequent
- Alternating Treatments Design
- Alternative Schedule (Alt)
- Anecdotal Observation
- Antecedent
- Antecedent Exercise
- Antecedent Intervention
- Antecedent Stimulus Class
- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
- Arbitrarily Applicable Relational Responding
- Arbitrary Relations
- Arbitrary Stimulus Class
- Artifact
- Ascending Baseline
- Autoclitic
- Automatic Contingencies
- Automatic Reinforcement
- Automaticity of Reinforcement
- Aversive Stimulus
- Avoidance Contingency
B
- BAB Design
- Backup Reinforcer
- Backward Chaining
- Backward Chaining with Leap Aheads
- Bar Graph
- Baseline
- Baseline Logic
- BCBA/BCaBA Task List
- Behavior
- Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB)
- Behavior Chain
- Behavior Chain Interruption Strategy
- Behavior Chain with a Limited Hold
- Behavior Change Tactic
- Behavior Checklist
- Behavior Trap
- Behavior-Altering Effect
- Behavioral Assessment
- Behavioral Contrast
- Behavioral Cusp
- Behavioral Inflexibility
- Behavioral Momentum
- Behaviorism
- Believability
- Bidirectional Naming
- Bonus Response Cost
- Brief Functional Analysis
- Brief Functional Analysis
C
- Calibration
- Causal Relations
- Celeration
- Chained Schedule (Chain)
- Chaining
- Changing Criterion Design
- Clicker Training
- Codic
- Combinatorial Entailment
- Compliance Code
- Component Analysis
- Compound Schedule of Reinforcement
- Concept
- Concurrent Schedule (Cone)
- Conditional Discrimination
- Conditional Probability
- Conditioned Motivating Operation (CMO)
- Conditioned Negative Reinforcer
- Conditioned Punisher
- Conditioned Reflex
- Conditioned Reinforcer
- Conditioned Stimulus
- Confidentiality
- Conflict of Interest
- Confounding Variable
- Conjunctive Schedule (Conj)
- Consequence
- Constant Time Delay
- Contextual Stimulus
- Contingency
- Contingency Analysis
- Contingency Contract
- Contingency Reversal
- Contingency Space Analysis
- Contingency-Shaped Behavior
- Contingent Deprivation
- Contingent Observation
- Continuous Measurement
- Continuous Reinforcement (CRF)
- Contrived Contingency
- Contrived Mediating Stimulus
- Copying Text
- Count
- Counter-control
- Cumulative Record
- Cumulative Recorder
D
- Data
- Data Path
- Deictic Relations
- Delay Discounting
- Delayed Multiple Baseline Design
- Dependent Group Contingency
- Dependent Variable
- Derived Relations
- Descending Baseline
- Descriptive Functional Behavior Assessment
- Determinism
- Differential Reinforcement
- Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA)
- Differential Reinforcement of Diminishing Rates (DRD)
- Differential Reinforcement of High Rates (DRH)
- Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates (DRL)
- Direct Measurement
- Direct Replication
- Disciplinary Standards
- Discontinuous Measurement
- Discrete Trial
- Discriminated Avoidance
- Discriminated Operant
- Discriminative Stimulus
- Discriminative Stimulus for Punishment
- Distinction Relations
- Double-Blind Control
- DRl/DRA Reversal Technique
- DRO Reversal Technique
- Drop-Out
- Duplic
- Duration
E
- Echoic
- Ecological Assessment
- Elementary Verbal Operants
- Empiricism
- Enriched Environment
- Environment
- Equal-Interval Scale
- Errorless Learning
- Escape Contingency
- Escape Extinction
- Establishing Operation (EO)
- Ethical Codes of Behavior
- Ethics
- Event Recording
- Evocative Effect
- Exact Count-per-Interval IOA
- Exclusion Time-Out
- Experiment
- Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
- Experimental Control
- Experimental Design
- Explanatory Fiction
- External Validity
- Extinction
- Extinction Burst
- Extinction-Induced Variability
- Extinction-Induced Variability
- Extraneous Variable
F
- Feature Stimulus Class
- Fixed Interval (FI)
- Fixed Ratio (FR)
- Fixed-Interval DRO
- Fixed-Momentary DRO
- Fixed-Time Schedule
- Formal Similarity
- Forward Chaining
- Fraudulent Conduct
- Free Operant
- Free-Operant Avoidance
- Frequency
- Full-Session DRL
- Function-Altering Effect
- Function-Based Definition
- Functional Analysis
- Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
- Functional Communication Training (FCT)
- Functional Relation
- Functionally Equivalent
G
H
I
- Imitation
- Imitation Modeling
- Imitation Training
- Independent Group Contingency
- Independent Variable
- Indirect Functional Assessment
- Indirect Measurement
- Indiscriminable Contingency
- Informed Consent
- Instructional Setting
- Interdependent Group Contingency
- Intermittent Schedule of Reinforcement (INT)
- Internal Validity
- Interobserver Agreement (IOA)
- Interresponse Time (IRT)
- Interrupted Chain Procedure
- Interval-by-Interval IOA
- Interview-Informed Synthesized Assessment
- Intraverbal
- Irreversibility Reversal Technique
L
M
- Mand
- Massed Practice
- Matching Law
- Matching-to-Sample
- Mean Count-per-Interval IOA
- Mean Duration-per-Occurrence IOA
- Measurement Bias
- Measurement by Permanent Product
- Mentalism
- Methodological Behaviorism
- Mixed Schedule of Reinforcement (Mix)
- MO Unpairing
- Momentary Time Sampling
- Most-to-Least Response Prompts
- Motivating Operation (MO)
- Motor Imitation (Relating to Sign Language)
- Multielement Design
- Multiple Baseline Across Behaviors
- Multiple Baseline Across Settings Design
- Multiple Baseline Across Subjects Design
- Multiple Control
- Multiple Probe Design
- Multiple Schedule (Mult)
- Multiple Treatment Interference
- Multiple Treatment Reversal Design
- Multiple-Exemplar Training
- Mutual Entailment
N
O
P
- Parametric Analysis
- Parsimony
- Partial-Interval Recording
- Percentage
- Perspective Shifting
- Philosophic Doubt
- Phylogeny
- Pivotal Behavior
- Placebo Control
- Planned Activity Check (PLACHECK)
- Point-to-Point Correspondence
- Positive Practice Overcorrection
- Positive Punishment
- Positive Reinforcement
- Positive Reinforcer
- Post reinforcement Pause
- Practice Effects
- Pragmatism
- Precision Teaching
- Prediction
- Premack Principle
- Principle of Behavior
- Private Events
- Procedural Fidelity
- Program Common Stimuli
- Progressive Schedule of Reinforcement
- Progressive Time Delay
- Progressive-Ratio (PR) Schedule of Reinforcement
- Punisher
- Punishment
R
- Radical Behaviorism
- Range-Bound Changing Criterion Design
- Rate
- Ratio Scale
- Ratio Strain
- Reactivity
- Recovery from Punishment
- Reflex
- Reflexive Conditioned Motivating Operation (CMO-R)
- Reinforcement
- Reinforcer
- Reinforcer Assessment
- Reinforcer-Abolishing Effect
- Reinforcer-Establishing Effect
- Relational Frame
- Relational Frame Theory (RFT)
- Relevance of Behavior
- Reliability
- Repertoire
- Replacement of Incompatible Behavior (RIB)
- Replication
- Research Question
- Resistance to Extinction
- Respondent Behavior
- Respondent Conditioning
- Respondent Extinction
- Response
- Response Blocking
- Response Class
- Response Differentiation
- Response Generalization
- Response Interruption and Redirection (RIRD)
- Response Maintenance
- Response Prompts
- Response-Deprivation Hypothesis
- Restitutional Overcorrection
- Restraint
- Resurgence
- Reversal Design
- Risk-Benefit Analysis
- Rule
- Rule-Governed Behavior
S
- Scatterplot
- Scatterplot Recording
- Schedule of Reinforcement
- Schedule Thinning
- Science
- Scored-Interval IOA
- Selection-Based (SB) Verbal Behavior
- Selectionism
- Self-Contract
- Self-Control [Impulse Control]
- Self-Control [Skinner’s Analysis]
- Self-Evaluation
- Self-Instruction
- Self-Management
- Self-Monitoring
- Sequence Effects
- Setting/Situation Generalization
- Shaping
- Simple Verbal Discrimination
- Single-Case Designs
- Social Validity
- Socially Mediated Contingency
- Spaced-Responding DRL
- Spatial Relations
- Split-Middle Line of Progress
- Stable Baseline
- Standard Celeration Chart
- Steady State Responding
- Steady State Strategy
- Stimulus
- Stimulus Blocking
- Stimulus Class
- Stimulus Control
- Stimulus Delta
- Stimulus Discrimination
- Stimulus Discrimination Training
- Stimulus Fading
- Stimulus Generalization
- Stimulus Generalization Gradient
- Stimulus Preference Assessment
- Stimulus Prompts
- Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing
- Successive Approximations
- Surrogate Conditioned Motivating Operation (CMO-S)
- Systematic Desensitization
- Systematic Replication
T
- Tandem Schedule (Tand)
- Target Behavior
- Task Analysis
- Teach Enough Examples
- Teach Loosely
- Temporal Relations
- Terminate Specific Reinforcer Contact
- Three-Term Contingency
- Time Delay
- Time Sampling
- Time-Out from Positive Reinforcement (Time-Out)
- Token
- Token Economy
- Topography
- Topography-Based Definition
- Total Count IOA
- Total Duration IOA
- Total-Task Chaining
- Transformation of Function
- Transitive Conditioned Motivating Operation (CMO-T)
- Treatment Drift
- Treatment Integrity
- Treatment Package
- Trend
- Trial-based Functional Analysis
- Trial-by-Trial IOA
- Trials-to-Criterion
- True Value
- Type I Error
- Type II Error
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V
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