ABA Definitions I
Anything a person says or does.
What is a behavior?
A consequence of a behavior that involves adding something to the person's environment to increase the future strength of that behavior.
Positive Reinforcement.
Social interactions, communication, restricted & repetitive behaviors
What are the 3 core deficits of autism?
The individuals that work directly with the learner and whose behavior most directly affects client outcome.
Who are Registered Behavior Technicians?
John Watson
Who is the person that first defined behaviorism?
A stimulus that occurred in a person's environment immediately preceding a behavior.
What is an antecedent?
No longer providing reinforcement for a behavior that used to be reinforced, resulting in a decrease in that behavior in the future.
What is Extinction?
A treatment that has been supported for several decades by scientific research resulting in close to 1000 published studies.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis treatment?
Practitioner that generally oversees RBTs with a master's degree.
Who is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst?
B. F. Skinner
Who is the person that expanded on behaviorism to discuss operant behavior?
Any object or event that occurs in a person's environment.
What is a stimulus?
A consequence of a behavior that involves removing something from or postponing something in the person's environment, which increases the future strength of the behavior.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
Treatment that addresses all major areas of skill deficits and challenging behaviors.
What is a comprehensive treatment package?
Someone who oversees RBTs but may also work directly with the learner, and is overseen by a BCBA. Has a bachelor's degree.
Who is a Board Certified assistant Behavior Analyst?
Baer, Wolf, & Risley
Who established the 7 dimensions of ABA?
A stimulus that occurred in a person's environment immediately following a behavior.
What is a consequence?
When a behavior is reinforced in the presence of a particular antecedent stimulus and is not reinforced in the absence of that stimulus, and therefore the behavior is more likely to occur in the presence of that stimulus.
What is stimulus control?
Treatment with a narrow scope that focuses on one or a few specific challenging behaviors or skills.
What is a focused treatment?
Requires a 40-hour training program and passing an exam for credential.
Who is a Registered Behavior Technician?
Ivar Lovaas
Who was one of the first behavior analysts to apply the science with individuals with autism?
Who was the person who did the Young Autism Project and wrote The Me Book?
An antecedent that changes the potency of a consequence as a reinforcer, and can be divided into to types: Establishing and Abolishing.
What are motivating operations?
The antecedent stimulus that has stimulus control over behavior because the behavior has been reliably reinforced in the presence of that stimulus in the past.
What is a discriminative stimulus?
General philosophical statements of ABA programs.
What are:
-Everyone with autism is capable of learning
-right to effective treatment
-the learner is always right
-Self-determination
-Least intrusive treatment
The credentialing agency for anyone who practices behavior analysis at any level.
Who is the Behavior Analysis Certification Board (BACB)?
7 dimensions of ABA.