Acronyms
ABA stands for...
What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
This is a strategy you use when you provide different options for the client to pick from.
What is Providing Choices?
(Example: "Do you want music room or iPad? or "do you want to sit on the red chair or blue chair?)
This verbal operant is under the control of the speaker's motivating operation (MO).
What is Mand?
Example: Johnny hasn't eaten all day. When he gets home from school he says, "I want lasagna". Mom gives him a plate of the lasagna.
When referring to reinforcement and punishment, this means to add a stimulus.
When referring to reinforcement and punishment, this means to remove a stimulus.
What is positive and negative?
FBA stands for...
What is Functional Behavior Assessment?
ABC stands for...
(Bonus points for giving an example of when we would take ABC data for a client)
What is Antecedent, Behavior, and Consequence?
(Bonus: Novel behaviors that are not being tracked in their CR, you have never seen this behavior occur before, impede learning, are a danger to the client, or affect their daily lives in a negative manner)
This is the strategy you use when you prepare the client for the next activity, transition, and/or the expectations for the upcoming task.
What is Priming?
(Example: While Adam is playing with cars, you state, "in 2 minutes we are heading to circle time")
This verbal operant is controlled by a non-verbal discriminative stimulus (SD), such as seeing, hearing, or smelling something in the environment, and does not result in receiving the item itself.
What is a tact?
(Example: While looking outside with snow on the ground, you state, "it must have snowed")
This process is when a consequence increases the future occurrences of the behavior.
This process is when a consequence decreases the future occurrences of the behavior.
What is reinforcement and punishment?
This is any support or assistance provided to help the client respond accurately/correctly.
What is a Prompt/Prompting?
PECS stands for...
What is Picture Exchange Communication System?
This strategy includes presenting 2 to 5 rapid, easy tasks right before delivering the targeted, lower-probability instruction.
What is Behavior momentum, AKA High probability request sequence?
(Example: You tell Joe to "Touch nose, arms up, spin around" before telling him to "clean up")
This verbal operant is evoked by a written or printed verbal discriminative stimulus.
What is a Textual operant?
(Example: Sally writes down "buy mangos" and Joe reads out loud "buy mangoes")
These are the four functions of behavior.
What is Escape, Attention, Access to tangible, and Sensory/Automatic?
This is when you stop providing reinforcement for a behavior that previously received reinforcement.
What is Extinction?
SD stands for...
This strategy involves changing the physical set up, visual cues, or altering the presentation of the task.
(Example: Standing by the exit to prevent elopement, removing non-relevant stimuli away, reducing response effort by rearranging the stimuli/environment, etc.)
Controlled by a vocal verbal stimulus, this verbal operant has both point to point correspondence and formal similarity.
(Example: RBT says, "ABA rocks", and Sarah says, "ABA rocks")
This process involves differentially reinforcing successive approximations of a target behavior while placing previous approximations on extinction until the final terminal behavior is reached.
(Bonus for giving an example)
What is Shaping?
Usually, when a skills is considered generalized, it must be across... (we are looking for 3)
What is across different people, settings/environments, and stimuli?
LR stands for...
(Bonus points for giving us an example what a LR goal/target/behavior)
What is Listener responding?
This strategy involves providing praise or a reinforcer on an interval schedule, completely independent of the client's behavior, to decrease the motivation to engage in maladaptive behaviors.
(Bonus points for providing an example of when you have used this before)
What is Non-Contingent Reinforcement?
(Example: At the top of every hour, Monica engages in 10 minutes of gross motor activity, trampoline or swinging on monkey bars, to decrease motivation for self stimulatory behaviors in the form of elopement/running)
This verbal operant is evoked by a verbal discriminative stimulus (SD) and the response lacks point-to-point correspondence with that antecedent stimulus.
What is an Intraverbal?
(Example: You sing "twinkle twinkle little.." and your client says "star". Other examples include: conversations, answering wh-questions, etc.)
This is the process of breaking a complex skill or series of behaviors into smaller, teachable steps. There are usually three different chaining procedures used to teach this, forward, backward, and total task.
What is Task Analysis?
(Bonus for naming all 6 of the DR procedures)
What is reinforcing specific behaviors while placing the other, usually maladaptive behaviors, on extinction?
(DRO, DRI, DRA, DRL, DRH, DRD)