ABA Terms
A stimuli that, when delivered directly following an instance of behavior, increases the likelihood of that behavior occurring in the future.
What is Reinforcer?
The inherent value and worth of an individual, regardless of abilities or circumstances; this is maintained in ABA by showing respect at all times, maintaining privacy and confidentiality, and communicating professionally.
What is client dignity?
A behavioral principle that states a person will perform a less preferred activity (low probability behavior) to gain access to a more preferred activity (high probability behavior).
What is first/then or Premack Principle?
This occurs when a non-desirable behavior ends.
What is offset?
A procedure that involves completely removing reinforcement from a previously reinforced behavior.
What is Extinction?
A mixing of two or more of an RBT's roles with a client, stakeholder, supervisor, coworker, or someone closely related to a client.
What are Dual Relationships?
An antecedent strategy during which the instructor avoids saying no and instead tells the patient what is available or what they can do.
What is Providing Choices?
A reactive strategy during which one uses one's torso or "mitten hand" to shield behaviors; this does not include holding onto the patient or sustained contact initiated by the RBT.
What is blocking?
A technique in ABA that involves teaching a new behavior by reinforcing closer and closer approximations to the target behavior.
An incompatibility between an RBT's private and professional interests that may result in risk to the professional relationship with a client, stakeholder, supervisor or coworker; conflicts may be personal, financial, or professional.
What is conflict of interest?
An antecedent strategy in which one informs the patient what will happen next in advance.
What is Priming?
This is called when a child engages in problem behavior that is uncontrollable or cannot safely be de-escalated by one person, or behavior that is extremely dangerous to the child and extremely dangerous to those around the child.
What is Code Green?
A procedure in ABA that utilizes prompt fading and stimulus fading to transfer the control of a behavior from an initial stimulus to a new stimulus.
What is Stimulus Control Transfer?
A federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without that patient's consent.
What is Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act/ HIPAA?
An antecedent strategy during which the patient is prompted to transition to a new environment or activity, but is allowed to carry a preferred item with them.
What is transition item?
This is a document that includes information about the functions of a child's problem behavior, antecedent strategies that may be effective, and reactive strategies that should be used across the child's therapists.
What is the BIP/ Behavior Intervention Plan or the BSP/ Behavior Support Plan?
A method of fading prompts which includes gradually increasing the wait time between a presented SD and any prompts to elicit a response from a learner.
What is Progressive Time Delay/Progressive Prompt Delay?
A process during which the BACB requests documentations of an RBT's hours directly worked with a client and the hours during which they were provided supervision to ensure that BACB supervision standards are met.
What is audit?
A behavioral theory that states when two or more concurrent schedules of reinforcement are available, behavior will occur in direct proportion to the reinforcement available
OR In any situation, one is likely to respond with the behavior that gets the fastest, largest, or "better" reinforcement.
What is Matching Law?
A description of the level of safety, respect and rapport demonstrated in the treatment of a client; often this refers to the level of acceptability if the child's session was somehow "televised" to the caregivers.
What is televisibility?