Graphic Displays
The most common graph used in ABA is often used to display changes in data over time.
Line graph
The average value of data poitns within a phase.
Level
The dimension that requires behavior to target socially significant and meaningful behaviors.
Applied
This type of design is most suitable if you want to evaluate a training procedure across multiple different people
Multiple Baseline Across Participants design
Breaking a skill into smaller steps.
The x-axis (horizontal axis) on a line graph usually represents this.
Time (sessions/days)
This visual feature helps determine if a behavior is improving, worsening, or remaining the same.
Conceptually systematic
An experimental design where experimental control is demosntrated by repeatedly withdrawing and introducing the intervention.
ABAB or withdrawal or reversal design
The gradual removal of prompts
Prompt Fading
The y-axis (vertical axis) usually shows the range for this variable.
Dependent Variable (Target behavior/measure)
The amount or degree of fluctuation or inconsistency in behavioral data
Variability
This dimension demonstrates that behavior changed is caused by the intervention
Analytic
This type of experimental design demonstrates experimental control by comparing 2 or more conditions that alternate in quick succession.
Alternating Treatments Design
A procedure where you teach each link or step of behavior in a sequential manner.
Forward Chaining
These lines indicate separate conditions or phases on a graph.
Phase Change Line
When the data are consistent, reliable, and predictable over time
Stable
The dimension where interventions are described with enough detail and precision that others can replicate their findings.
Technological
This experimental design systematically increases or decreases a criterion to demonstrate experimental control.
Changing Criterions Design
A process where closer approximations are reinforced
Shaping
Connecting these elements allows trends to be visually detected across sessions.
Data paths or data lines
When there is an instant change after the introduction of a new phase or intervention.
Immediacy of Effect
This dimension requires that interventions produce meaningful and practical behavior change
Effective
An experimental design where individual parts of an intervention are added or removed to determine which components are responsible for behavior change.
Component Analysis
A procedure where you teach the learner to respond appropriately to different variations of an SD
Multiple Exemplar Training