Acronyms
Terms
Terms 2.0
Terms 3.0
Misc.
100

R+ stands for this term. A principle of behavior in which behavior increases as a result of the presentation of an appetitive stimulus. 

What is positive reinforcement (can also mean correct response)

100

allows the teacher to discover what potential reinforcers a child actually prefers and even permits the instructor to rank those reinforcers in the order of apparent student preference.

Forced Choice Preference Assessment 

100

aversive stimulus

A noxious or unpleasant stimulus.

100

This strategy involves differential reinforcments of successive approximations to a terminal behavior.

What is shaping

100
This is best classified as a request
What is a mand
200

The spread of the effects of reinforcement (or other operations such as extinction or punishment) of one stimulus to other stimuli, which differ from the original, along one or more dimensions.

Generalization

200

is a no cost diagnostic tool that generates a ranked order list of preferences for a specific.

MSWO

200

A method used to train chained performances in which the last behavior in the chain is trained first; then each preceding behavior is gradually introduced.

backward chaining

200
This strategy involves reinforcing all other behaviors within a time interval besides the target behavior.
What is differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO)
200

Interval between successive responses. 

Interresponse time

300
This term is referred to as SD
What is discriminative stimulus
300

This is the process of breaking a complex skill or series of behaviors into smaller, teachable units; also refers to the result of this process.

What is task analysis

300

Teaching of a new behavior that becomes trapped (or maintained) through natural contingencies of reinforcement.

behavior trapping

300
This strategy involves withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.
What is extinction
300
This is an increase in the frequency of responding when an extinction procedure is initially implemented
What is an extinction burst
400
This is commonly referred to as “ABC”
What is Antecedent Behavior Consequence
400
The sequence of new response classes that emerge during the shaping process as the result of differential reinforcement; each response class is closer in form to the terminal behavior than the response class it replaces.
What is successive approximations
400

A reinforcement schedule in which every response is reinforced.

continuous reinforcement 
400

A rapid burst of target responses that occur which extinction is first applied.

extinction burst

400
These are the four functions of behavior
What is access to tangibles, escape, attention and automatic reinforcement
500

larger, more complex skills need to be broken into smaller more discrete steps.

DTT

500

Excessive (possibly arbitrary) behaviors that occur between trials or between reinforcers.

adjunctive behavior

500
This is only reinforcing those responses within a response class that meet a specific criterion along some dimension (i.e., frequency, topography, duration, latency, magnitude) and placing all other responses in the class of extinction
What is differential reinforcement
500
This procedure is used for transferring stimulus control in which features of an antecedent stimulus controlling a behavior are gradually changed to a new stimulus while maintaining the current behavior
What is fading
500

A principle of behavior in which behavior increases as a result of the termination an aversive event or stimulus.

Negative reinforcement 

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