Acronyms
Terms
Prompts
Teaching Strategies
Verbal Behavior
100

ABA stands for this term.

What is Applied Behavior Analysis: a data driven and evidence based science of behavior.

100

This term refers to what happens immediately after a behavior or interest. 

What is consequence?

100

Fully guiding the learner through the response or hand over hand. 

What is full physical prompt?

100

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

What is shaping

100

Verbal operant used to request. 

What is a mand?

200

This term is referred to as an FBA

What is What is a Functional Behavior Assessment

200

This is an antecedent strategy; a method used prior to the event to set the stage for a desired response, or to reduce the likelihood of a challenging response. 

What is priming?

200

Using vocal cues to indicate the correct response. 

What is Verbal Prompt?

200

This strategy involves breaking a skill down into a sequence of small steps. 

What is a task analysis (TA)?

200

Teacher: "Twinkle twinkle little" Child: "star" This is an example of

What is an intraverbal?

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

A change in behavior due to experience. 

What is operant conditioning? (learning) 

300

Can include texts or pictures.

What is a visual prompt?

300

This strategy involves withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.

What is extinction

300

A verbal operant that is a verbal model. 

What is an echoic? 

400

This is commonly referred to as DRO 

What is Difference Reinforcement of Other behavior. DRO provides reinforcement for the non-occurrence of the unwanted behavior. 

400

A measurement of behavior that indicates the number of times the target behavior occurs. 

What is frequency or rate? 

400

Pointing or using other physical motions to indicate the correct response. 

What is a Gestural prompt?

400

A method of teaching where skills are taught or generalized within the natural environment. 

What is Natural Environment Teaching (NET)

400

A verbal operant; labeling or naming; language is evoked by an item, person or activity. 

What is a tact?

500
FCT stands for this term. 

What is Functional Communication Training. A method of teaching expressive communication to get needs met. 

500

Antecedent Strategy that makes a low probability (less preferred) task more likely to be completed because it is followed by a higher probability task. 

What is the Premack Principle? (First/Then) Also known as "grandma's rule" 

500

Showing the learner what to do before they do it.

What is a model prompt?

500

A teaching method where there is a clear beginning and end to each trial. There is a presentation, response, and consequence.

What is Discrete Trial Training (DTT)?

500

When a learner copies another's movements. 

What is a motor imitation?

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