Dimensions of ABA
This dimension of ABA stands for the 'B' in the acronym, BATCAGE.
Behavioral
The addition of a stimulus that increases the future likelihood of that behavior occurring again.
Positive reinforcement
A basic verbal operant in which the learner asks for what they want.
Mand
ABA uses this type of experimental design.
Single subject design
A principle named for David Premack
Premack Principle
This dimension focuses on the behavior changes extending over time, settings, or individuals.
Generality
The addition of a stimulus that decreases the future likelihood of a behavior.
Positive punishment
A verbal operant in which the speaker names or labels an item in their environment.
Tact
Measuring the behavior of interest prior to beginning intervention.
Baseline
A process involving systematically and differentially reinforcing successive approximations to a terminal behavior.
Shaping
The dimension of ABA that states that intervention or experimental procedures should be clearly explained so that they are easily replicable.
Technological
The removal of a stimulus that results in a lower likelihood of the behavior occurring in the future.
Negative punishment
Textual
This variable is often the behavior of interest.
Dependent variable
Behaviors in a chain/task analysis are taught in their natural order.
Forward chaining
This dimension refers to something that must be measurable and observable.
Behavioral
A previously neutral stimulus that has been paired with 1 or more punishers until it functions as a punisher.
Conditioned punisher
Writing or spelling words spoken to you.
Transcription
Extra variables that you are not trying to measure that may have an impact on the target behavior.
Extraneous variables
In this procedure, reinforcement is provided for certain target behaviors, and withheld for undesired behaviors.
Differential reinforcement
The authors who defined the dimensions of ABA in a journal article published in 1968.
Baer, Wolf, & Risley (1968).
A positive punishment procedure in which the learner is expected to improve the environment to a better condition than it was before the undesirable behavior.
Restitutional Overcorrection
Verbal behavior about one's own verbal behavior. E.g., 'I'm sure you'll like the cookie.'
Autoclitic
A type of experimental design in which two or more experimental conditions/interventions are alternated to determine their effects.
Alternating treatment design
An antecedent intervention in which reinforcement is response-independent and often used to decrease disruptive behaviors.
Non-contingent reinforcement (NCR)