Acronyms
ABA stands for this
What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
This term refers to any observable activity or events by a living organism
What is behavior?
___________ ____________ occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by presenting a highly preferred item/activity/etc. that increases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions.
What is positive reinforcement?
This strategy involves reinforcing something close to what we want and then only reinforcing the closer resemblances until we get to the desired behavior.
What is shaping?
We say something and the learner repeats it.
What is an echoic?
This term is referred to as an FBA
What is a Functional Behavior Assessment?
This occurs when an undesirable behavior no longer occurs through the use of different techniques.
What is extinct behavior?
________ ____________ occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a non-preferred item, activity, etc. and decreases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions
What is positive punishment?
This strategy involves reinforcing all other behaviors within a time interval besides the behavior(s) we don't want to see.
What is differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO)?
Teacher: "Twinkle twinkle little" Child: "star" This is an example of
What is an intraverbal?
This term is referred to as SD
What is discriminative stimulus?
This is the process of breaking a complex skill or series of behaviors into smaller, teachable chain of steps
What is task analysis?
_________ ____________occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the removal of something that is non-preferred to increase the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions
What is negative reinforcement?
This is a highly structured teaching technique where students learn through repeated trials and reinforcement with data taken for every trial.
What is DTI?
Sometimes when we try to eliminate a behavior, the new interventions will cause a spike in the behavior for a short period of time.
What is an extinction burst?
This is commonly referred to as “ABC”
What is Antecedent Behavior Consequence?
When a child requests something that they see and want; they can use words or gestures to let us know
What is a mand?
_________ ____________ occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the removing something that is preferred to decrease the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions
What is negative punishment?
This strategy involves using real-life and in the moment opportunities to teach students and reinforce skills that have been discussed and taught.
What is naturalistic teaching?
These are the four functions of behavior
What is access to tangibles, escape, attention and automatic reinforcement?
This is the only person allowed to change programs.
What is a BCBA- Board Certified Behavior Analysis?
The basic form of labeling items and actions in your environment.
What is a tact?
This is only reinforcing those exact responses that we are targeting (i.e. desired response) and not addressing/ reinforcing any other responses.
What is differential reinforcement?
This is the type of assistance given to a learner in emitting the correct response.
What is (response) prompting?
When a learner is able to repeat the skills taught either with different people, in different locations/settings or with different materials.
What is generalization?