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Performance Management   a precise scientific approach that works; focuses on understanding behavior and using scientific methods to change behavior  
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Common Sense   the unreflective opinions of ordinary people; acquired in everyday living, individualistic, accepts the obvious, vague, not reliable  
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Scientific knowledge   systematic, data based; an approach to knowledge that is deliberate, systematic, universal, precise, and reliable; questions the obvious and is gained through controlled experiment  
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consequences   what comes after a behavior; alters the probability the behavior will reoccur; keeps behavior going  
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antecedents   what comes before a behavior, sets the occasion for the behavior to occur; gets behavior going  
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Extinction   withholding SR+ for previously reinforced B  
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Premack Principle   make high frequency B. contingent on low frequency B  
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Contingency Error   SR+ without required B  
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Penalty   decrease behavior by removing something  
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Punishment   decrease behavior by giving something  
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4 to 1   effective SR to SP ratio  
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Discretionary Effort   the level of effort people could give if they wanted to  
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Frequency Error   to little reinforcement  
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Employee of the Month   NOT an example of reinforcement  
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Performance Feedback   Specific data about performance  
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Dead man's test   a way to recognize behavior  
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Ranking   should not be used because it sets employees against each other  
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baseline   measure of results or behavior before intervention  
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Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS)   a scale on which each variable to be measured is anchored by specific behaviors and accomplishment  
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Leave it test   if you can leave it behind when you leave, it's a result  
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Pin Pointing   being specific about a result and the behavior required to achieve it  
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Rating   comparing performance against established criteria  
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Activity trap   pinpointing behaviors without validating the relationship of the behavior to the results  
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ABA design   collect baseline data, add intervention, withdraw intervention  
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Multiple Baselines   multiple AB designs implemented at various times  
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Perception Error   assuming something is a reinforcer when it isn't  
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Contingency Error   can get reinforcers without engaging in a prerequisite behavior  
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Delay Error   not delivering immediate reinforcement  
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frequency error   not delivering reinforcement early enough  
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4 to 1   effective reinforcement to punishment ratio  
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"no But" rule   do not add prompts or instructions to praise statement  
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The Sandwich   a (-) between two (+)  
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Activity Trap   focusing on behaviors before identifying the desired results  
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Behavior   what a person does  
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result   what is produced by behavior  
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behavior counts   measures of behavior  
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counting   an often measure of behavior; frequency or rate  
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judging   a subjective measure of behavior  
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Valid Behavior Measure   when change in behavior correlates with change in result  
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feedback   information about performance that allows an individual to adjust his or her performance  
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B design   implementing a change and tracking results  
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Goals   antecedents for punishment or behavior  
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Best goal setting mistake   Set goals to low  
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Shaping   The process of positively reinforcing successive approximations toward a goal  
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Stretch goal   Stretch goal very difficult goals used to try to fool people into superior performance  
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Benchmarking   the practice of tracking business processes considered to be the best in a given sphere of influence  
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Quality Awareness   the personal concern felt by all personnel toward the conformance of the product or service and the quality reputation of the company  
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Quality Measurement   a display of current and potential noncomformance problems in a manner that permits objective evaluation and corrective action  
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Recognition   to appreciate those who participate  
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Establish consistency of purpose   pinpoint and reinforce only behaviors that support quality  
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Improve constantly and forever every system   always reinforce improvement  
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Eliminate numerical goals and quotas, including management by objectives   use goals to increase opportunities for positive reinforcement  
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Drive out fear   switch from negative to positive reinforcement  
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Institute Leadership   reinforce improved behaviors when they occur  
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End the practice of awarding business largely on the basis of price   reinforce quality by giving business to "quality" vendors  
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Break down barriers   reinforce cooperation  
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Institute training on the job   evaluate how well training results in improved performance  
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Eliminate the annual rating or merit program   reinforce behaviors that support quality, promote personnel whose behavior supports quality  
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Eliminate slogans and exhortations   don't rely on antecedents, use reinforcement  
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Cease dependency on mass inspection   reinforce individuals for taking responsibility for own quality control  
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Adopt a new philosophy   develop a reinforcement plan  
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Create a structure in top management to accomplish the transformation   reinforce managers for success of their employees  
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Rightsizing   having the right amount of labor to get the job done  
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downsizing   "stop the bleeding" a temporary bandaid: a stop gap measure  
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Paradigm   pattern of behavior  
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Empowerment   occurs when management reinforces employees for assuming new behaviors and responsibilities (i.e., more management things)  
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Competency-suppressing conditions   work that is dominated by punishment, extinction, and negative reinforcement  
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Cut unnecessary work   reinforce suggestions for taking work out of the system  
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Put quality first   plan and deliver positive reinforcement for "quality behaviors"  
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bust your paradigm   pinpoint results, pinpoint behaviors, celebrate success  
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empower people   give reinforcement for assuming new responsibilities  
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communicate   provides consequences to promote new behavior  
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take care of survivors   reinforce the positive efforts of those who remain  
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Supply-push model   providing training and putting people in training  
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Demand-pull model   when employees ask for training  
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Recognition   a symbolic way of showing apprectiation  
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incentive   an inducement to perform  
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Relationship   the foundation on which effective rewards and recognition programs are built  
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reward   a tangible item; intended to influence behavior in a particular direction  
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Performance Matrix   a totally flexible measurement system  
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Hernstein’s Hyperbola   describes how reinforcement availability determines the amount of time we spend on various behaviors  
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Matching Law   The amount of reinforcement a person receives for a particular behavior is matched by the time spent engaged in that behavior  
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Management by Wandering Around   Management technique that should allow managers to deliver immediate reinforcement directly to workers  
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Management by Wondering Around   Misapplication of MBWA where managers inadvertently reinforce or punish the wrong behaviors  
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Fluency   responding immediately and unhestingly  
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Nintendo generation   impatient, in a hurry for everything  
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Academic Child Abuse   the use of practices that causes unnecessary failure  
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Direct Instruction   a carefully scripted presentation of academic material  
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Morningside Model of Generative Instruction   combines Direct Instruction with Behavior Analysis and Fluency  
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Automaticity   refers to motor learning; requires at least 300 repetitions under favorable conditions  
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Expertise   excellent behavior acquired through approximately 10,00 hours of deliberate practice  
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Creativity   a behavior thing  
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Antecedents and creativity   inefficient and/or incorrect behavior process that results from imprecise reinforcement  
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Consequences   have predictable effects on creative process  
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Behavioral drift   changes in the environment can lead to new behavior  
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Extinction burst   lack of reinforcement for new behavior may lead to a old behavior returning  
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Emotional behavior   response to loss of reinforcement for old behavior, may involve blaming other, crying, pouting, etc  
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Resurgence   repeating old behavior when reinforcement has been withheld  
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Habit breakup   behavior may become erratic when old behavior is no longer reinforced; may lead to "insight"  
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Conditioned Reinforcement   stimuli that have been paired with social reinforcement  
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Celebration   an occasion to relive an accomplishment  
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Meaning   comes from the consequences of what one does  
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listen   what management should do during a celebration  
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Tangible rewards   serve to anchor a memory; given after reliving the accomplishment  
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Celebration walk   a walk around that focuses on delivering positive reinforcement  
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Results   occasion for celebration  
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Efforts   to be reinforced daily  
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honesty   everything is overboard  
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Justice   contingent consequences (good performance=reinforcement)  
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Integrity   consequences match antecedents  
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Equality   understanding behavior is the result of environment  
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Respect   recognizing the unique perspective each person brings  
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Self-esteem   feelings of confidence and competence as a result of earned recognition and reward  
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Personal growth   initiative and willingness to try new ideas  
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Peace of Mind   Reduced stress that results from contingent reinforcement  
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Golden Rule   Reinforcement leads to more reinforcement among all workers - treat each other as they would like to be treated  
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