
Clinician guide
How to Distinguish Contingency From Temporal Contiguity
Distinguish contingency from temporal contiguity using response and nonresponse windows, consequence probabilities, base rates, timing, history, and limits.
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Clinician guide
Distinguish contingency from temporal contiguity using response and nonresponse windows, consequence probabilities, base rates, timing, history, and limits.

Clinician guide
Define a response-consequence contingency question using a client priority, response and consequence classes, comparison states, timing, history, access, and limits.

Clinician guide
Report motivating-operation results using the operation, consequence, response history, comparison, timing, access, value and behavior data, limits, and decision.

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Reassess motivating operations after changes in pain, sleep, medication, appetite, schedule, access, setting, partner, consequence, or preference.

Clinician guide
Measure motivating operations across sessions using time-stamped operation, consequence, response, access, health, setting, partner, effort, and client-report data.

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Evaluate abolishing effects using a defined consequence, related behavior, access history, comparison, timing, health, competing options, and direct client report.

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Evaluate a reflexive CMO through natural evidence, prevention, communication, accessible exits, health review, stop rules, qualified oversight, and cautious scope.

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Assess a transitive CMO using a blocked activity, needed item, related response, open comparison, learning history, availability cues, access, and ethical limits.

Clinician guide
Assess recent access through natural routines, client report, records, matched observations, health safeguards, choice, and consequence-specific measures.

Clinician guide
Assess value-altering and behavior-altering effects with consequence-specific choice, related behavior, comparisons, time course, access, and data.

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Separate stimulus control from motivating operations by measuring consequence availability, value, related behavior, learning history, and simultaneous control.

Clinician guide
Define a motivating-operation assessment question using a client priority, operation, consequence, behavior, value measure, comparison, timing, access, and limits.