Same Response Test Effective Contingency Test

Natural Contingency Test Planned Contingency Test

Ineffective Contingency Test Analog to Avoidance Test

Analog to Punishment Test

Competing Contingency Test Deadlines for Analog to Avoidance Test

Is the contingency effective? (The change in size and probability of the outcome is large enough to control behavior)

Is the response the same in all three contingencies?

Is the contingency added and planned? (Designed to manage performance)

Does the contingency exist prior to performance management?

If the indirect-acting contingency is to increase or maintain performance, is it an analog to avoidance?

Is the contingency ineffective? (The change in size and probability of the outcome is too small to control behavior)

If the indirect-acting contingency is to decrease performance, is it and analog to penalty or punishment?

Is a deadline used only for analogs to avoidance and not for analogs to punishment?

Is this a natural competing contingency? If so, then it is not the ineffective natural contingency

Explicit Deadline Test Linked to PM Test

Delayed Outcome/Probability Test Escape Contingency Test

Need for Theoretical Contingency Test Punishment Contingency Test

Direct Acting Test

Inferred Test

Is the theoretical contingency related to the PM contingency and not to the ineffective natural contingency?

Is the avoidance deadline explicitly stated as part of the SD?

If the PM contingency is to increase or maintain performance, is the theoretical contingency an escape contingency?

Is the delay or the probability of the outcome specified in the before and after condition?

If the PM contingency is designed to decrease performance, is the theoretical contingency a punishment contingency

Is the theoretical, direct-acting contingency used only when the PM contingency is indirect-acting, and not when the PM contingency is direct-acting?

Is the theoretical contingency direct-acting?

Is the theoretical contingency inferred rather than observable?