Behavior
The activity of living organisms
What is behavior?
The "B" of ABC data collection.
What is behavior?
Teach the student to ask for help or a break
Change the way you present the task
Put a break or walk schedule in place
Simplify the task
What are strategies for escape maintained behaviors?
Two types of reinforcement
What are positive and negative?
Two types of punishment
What are positive and negative
Behavior targeted for reduction that poses a danger to self or others
What is problem behavior?
The events that happen after the behavior.
What is the consequence?
Name one strategy for attention maintained behaviors.
What are:
Increase attention for appropriate behaviors
Withhold attention for inappropriate behaviors
Teach appropriate ways to obtain attention
Teach student how to obtain attention from peers
Something that happens after a behavior that causes that behavior to occur again in the future.
What is reinforcement?
When you add something to the environment which causes a decrease in a problem behavior.
What is positive punishment?
Escape, Attention, Tangible, Automatic Reinforcement
What are the functions of behavior?
The events that happen before a behavior occurs
What is the antecedent?
Name one strategy to help a student who is unable to wait for tangible items.
What is teaching waiting skills, schedule reinforcement, or provide alternative choices?
You tell a student to sit down. They sit down and you give the student a high-five for listening. Later when you tell the student to sit down again, the student sits.
This is what the high-five acted as.
What is positive reinforcement?
A student hits another student and the teacher removes a token from his token board. The student hits less in the future.
What is negative punishment?
Behaviors that occur in order to get something.
What is tangible?
A mother takes her child to the grocery story. The child asks for candy. The mother says, "No candy today we have some at home".
The child cries and throws herself to the floor.
The mother buys the child candy. The child stops crying.
This was the antecedent.
What is the mother denying the child candy?
What can you do to help a child who engages in problem behaviors due to an automatic function?
Provide/teach an appropriate alternative behavior
or
Allow for sensory breaks
What is negative reinforcement?
What is the removal of a stimulus that results in the increase of a desired behavior.
Example: Alarm in the car to buckle your seat belt, alarm clock to wake up on time
A student spits at the teacher. The teacher yells at the student loudly, which startles the student. The student does not spit the rest of the day.
What is positive punishment?
This function of behavior does not rely on anything external to the person.
What is automatic reinforcement?
A mother takes her child to the grocery story. The child asks for candy. The mother says, "No candy today we have some at home".
The child cries and throws herself to the floor.
The mother buys the child candy. The child stops crying.
This is the probable function of the child's behavior.
What is tangible?
Other than the inability to wait for access to a tangible, what is another reason a student may use problem behavior to gain access to a tangible item?
What is the lack of appropriate communication methods?
OR
They don't know how to ask for it appropriately
This is sometimes reinforcing behaviors and causes behaviors strengthen.
What is intermittent reinforcement?
One issue with using punishment
What is punishment does not teach the student what to do to get what they want or need appropriately?
Or
What is the student may develop a new behavior to replace the punished behavior?