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#1. During a supervision session, a trainee describes a client’s lack of engagement as being unmotivated. As the supervising BCBA, you recognize that this terminology is not conceptually systematic within the field of Applied Behavior Analysis. Which of the following terms is considered conceptually systematic when discussing the momentary effectiveness of a reinforcer or punisher and the frequency of behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus?

A) Establishing Operation

B) Abolishing Operation

C) Motivating Operation

D) Unmotivated Behavior

In Applied Behavior Analysis using conceptually systematic language is crucial for maintaining the integrity and scientific rigor of the field The term unmotivated is colloquial and does not align with the technical vocabulary of ABA Instead behavior analysts use the term Motivating Operation MO to describe environmental variables that a alter the effectiveness of some stimulus object or event as a reinforcer or punisher and b alter the current frequency of all behavior that has been reinforced or punished by that stimulus object or event Establishing Operations EOs are a type of MO that increases the effectiveness of a reinforcer and evokes behavior while Abolishing Operations AOs are a type of MO that decreases the effectiveness of a reinforcer and abates behavior Therefore Motivating Operation is the overarching conceptually systematic term for discussing these motivational variables and both establishing and abolishing operations are specific examples of MOs

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