Functions of Behavior
Presented with a bad smell, work or a dinner you don't want to go to...
What is Escape?
The C of the ABC...
What is Consequence?
It is the behavioral process of reinforcing a specific desirable behavior while placing undesired behaviors on extinction.
What is Differential Reinforcement?
This type of reinforcement occurs when a reward accidentally follows an unrelated behavior, causing that behavior to increase anyway.
What is accidental (or adventitious) reinforcement
This Data is the same name as one of the first songs you learned...
What is ABC?
Function that relates to activities or items....
What is a "Tangible"?
Happens before...
What is Antecedent?
Reinforcement is delivered for engaging in a behavior that is an alternative to the target behavior and meets the same function/purpose of behavior... (asking for a break instead of throwing materials, using a chewy rather than mouthing unsafe objects...)
What is DRA (Differential Reinforcement of Alternative (Behavior))?
In 1948, B.F. Skinner famously demonstrated accidental reinforcement by dropping food into a cage at regular intervals to condition this specific animal.
What is a pigeon?
This data collection method involves tracking the exact number of times a discrete behavior occurs, such as counting how many times a student raises their hand.
What is Frequency (or Event) recording?
Some people like others to like or share their content for this purpose...besides the advertising piece which is also for this purpose...
What is "attention"?
The B or anything a dead horse cannot do...
What is behavior?
Reinforcement is delivered for engaging in a behavior that is incompatible to the target behavior. In other words, it is impossible to engage in the target behavior and incompatible behavior at the same time
-Examples: Yelling and drinking, clapping and hitting
What is DRI (Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible (Behavior))?
In everyday human culture, accidental reinforcement is the primary psychological mechanism behind the creation of these lucky rituals or beliefs. Stevie Wonder sang about it, so did Stevie Ray...
What is superstition?
The best way to make sure we all collect the same data on the same things...is to create complete ______ of the behaviors of concern...
What are definitions?
This references the function that is reinforced by the act of doing whatever it is you are doing, is reinforcing to itself and may not be understood by observers...
What is automatic or sensory?
Over time, this type of Data collection assists in creating a picture of the _______ of the behavior that is being recorded in this manner...
What is function?
Teaching a child to raise their hand instead of yelling out the answer to circle time and then only reinforcing when they do raise their hand is an example of this DR procedure...
What is DRA (Differential Reinforcement of Alternative (Behavior))?
A child makes funny noises during a lesson to get attention from peers. The teacher stops class, looks directly at the student, and gives a long lecture about rules. This accidentally provides...
What is positive (added) social reinforcement (attention)?
It is how long a behavior lasts...
What is duration?
A good Acronym to remember the 4 Functions...
What is SEAT?
ABC Data Collection is known as ________, or the way someone references a experience...
What is Anecdotal?
This is the main difference between DRI and DRA; the first requires reinforcing a behavior that physically cannot coexist with the problem behavior, while the second reinforces any functional alternative.
What is incompatibility? (DRI involves incompatible behavior; DRA involves alternative behavior).
A student screams during silent reading time to escape the task. The teacher immediately sends the student to the principal's office. This accidentally reinforces the screaming by providing...
What is negative reinforcement (in this case escape to remove (the negative part) the 'stimuli'?
This is the preferred method for collecting data in the classroom for the most part...It looks at a time frame and if a behavior occurs within that time frame...
What is Partial Interval Recording?