It's Not Bribery...
The schedule of reinforcement that is utilized to teach a brand new skill.
What is continuous reinforcement or an FR1 schedule of reinforcement?
Scolding someone is an example of this: It is adding something to the environment to reduce the future likelihood of a behavior.
What is positive punishment?
One of the first steps in establishing instructional control, this process is best described as the interventionist providing access to all reinforcement for the first few days.
What is pairing?
Differential Reinforcement of successive approximations of a terminal behavior. BONUS 100 points if you can give an example!
What is Shaping?
The PEAK Response Score that is generated if you provide a physical prompt to a learner to help them get the answer correct. BONUS if you can name one other way that this response score is generated!
What is 2?
The term that SD is short for.
What is Discriminative Stimulus?
Adding something to the environment to increase the future likelihood of a behavior occurring.
What is positive reinforcement?
Not designated by a space or a location, this procedure removes all reinforcement for a set period of time after a problem behavior occurs. BONUS if you can describe a less common example
What is Time Out?
(True or False) If you pair well at the start of your relationship with your learner, you will never have to pair with them again.
What is false? BONUS: How often do you need to pair?
A way of teaching that prevents a child from making mistakes as he or she is learning a new skill. It is highly effective for learners that are apt to make mistakes early on in the learning process.
What is errorless learning?
This prompt involves either demonstrating or showing a video of someone else performing the correct response.
What is a modeling prompt?
ABA speak for the demand, instruction, or the event/stimulus that serves as a signal to someone that reinforcement is available contingent on their response.
What is an SD?
This schedule of reinforcement is reflected by providing the reinforcer after a set number of responses.
What is a fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement?
This is the act of removing something from the environment to decrease the likelihood of the future occurrence of the behavior. An example of this procedure is removing a child from their favorite activity after he kicks a peer.
What is negative punishment?
What is a high probability request sequence (or behavioral momentum)? BONUS: Tell a time you might use this strategy!
A process whereby a multi-step behavior or skill such as brushing teeth, is broken down into smaller steps that can be taught and reinforced.
What is a task analysis?
In general, the amount of time you should wait before delivering a prompt after an Sd or between each prompt given to a learner.
What is 3-5 seconds?
A stimulus condition in the presence of which a response has a lower probability of occurrence than it does in its absence as a result of response-contingent punishment delivery in the presence of the stimulus.
What is an SDP?
This is the concept that is described in the following scenario:
Bob has wet hands and he dries them with a towel. In the future he dries his hands with a towel whenever his hands are wet. BONUS for defining the term accurately
What is Negative Reinforcement?
This must be used before punishment can be considered as a treatment option for any learner.
What is reinforcement?
It doesn't involve bleach, but it does involve removing distractors, toys, and potential reinforcers out of the environment so that the learner is easier able to focus on the task at hand.
What is sanitizing the environment?
This teaching procedure is used to remove reinforcement for a target behavior, providing reinforcement for a selected functionally equivalent replacement behavior.
What is DRA? BONUS if you can define the acronym
This is the type of responding that results in the best reinforcement available for a response.
What is independent responding?
A stimulus in the presence of which a particular response will not be reinforced.
What is the S-Delta?
Learners can become overly dependent on programmed reinforcement contingencies at the expense of natural contingencies. Additionally, the improper or inconsistent use of a reinforcement procedure can inadvertently create an extinction condition.
What are some potential side effects of reinforcement procedures?
Some examples include higher rates of client aggression, the possibility that the punishment procedure itself could act as a model for inappropriate behavior for the client, and the possibility of punishment creating a contingency of negative reinforcement for the person delivering the punishment.
What are the potential unwanted side effects of punishment procedures?
What is false? BONUS: Explain why this is not okay.
A procedure consisting of instruction, modeling, behavioral rehearsal, and feedback that is used to teach new behaviors or skills. BONUS: Name a skill that you can teach/have taught using this procedure.
What is Behavior Skills Training?
This prompt is illustrated by someone asking a vague question or providing a vague vocal prompt like "what's next?"
What is an indirect verbal prompt?
A green light is an example of this. BONUS if you can explain why!
What is an SD or Discriminative Stimulus?