Instructions and Rules
How do we use instructions and rules
Clearly establish expectations for desired behaviors
What involves reinforcing responses within a response class that meet a specific criterion along some dimension and placing all other responses in the response class on extinction
Differential reinforcement
When using rules as a prompting strategy, what do we ultimately want the rule to serve as?
An EO
You should measure this to to ensure treatment outcomes are the direct result of the independent variable
Treatment Integrity
What enhances awareness of rules?
Involving a client in rule development as part of the goal setting protocol
A sequence of response classes that emerge during the shaping process as a result of differential reinforcement
Successive approximations
Why should you provide a corrective statement and repeat the SD with an immediate prompt during DTT?
To avoid a problematic behavior chain, and to pair the SD with the correct answer.
What is the main reason that measuring treatment integrity is crucial in ABA programming?
To ensure treatment outcomes are the direct result of the independent variable.
Give an example of presenting rules positively
Sit in your chair instead of don't move around
A response change produced by differential reinforcement during shaping in which reinforced members of the current response class occur more often and unreinforced members occur less often.
Response differentiation
Is candy a generalized conditioned reinforcer?
No. It's an unconditioned reinforcer (food is a need)
Advantages of self-management
Influence behaviors that can't be supported by others
Promptes generalization and maintenance
Self-management behaviors can have an effect on lots of different behaviors
People of all abilities are able to learn self-management skills
How should rules be stated to the learner
Focus on developmental level and understanding (not just age)
A strategy which you systematically and differentially reinforce successive approximations to a terminal response/goal
Define habilitation:
(AKA adjustment)
occurs when an individual's skills has been changed such that short-and long-term reinforcers are maximized and short- and long-term punishers are minimized.
Behavior change must really be useful to the client. Examples: Able to ride a school bus, teaching a learner to say hello, etc.
What should be prioritized when establishing training targets for supervisees?
Skills that will have natural practice opportunities in the supervisory relationship
Why should you use common sets of rules?
Avoids confusion when there are multiple clients, supervisees, and employees
Difference between shaping and stimulus fading
Shaping: alters response requirements; builds new behavior
Stimulus fading: procedure that alters antecedent stimuli, specifically fading stimulus prompts
A reliably implemented independent variable ensures that an experiment has:
Treatment Integrity