Acronyms
Stands for Applied Behavior Analysis
What is ABA?
A cue or assistance given to an individual to aid them and performing a desired skill or behavior correctly
What is a prompt?
systematic patterns that determine when and how often reinforcement is delivered following a desired behavior.
What is reinforcement schedules?
Giving something right after a behavior to make it happen again
What is positive reinforcement?
A request for something a person wants/needs or to end something they don't want
What is a mand?
Stands for functional communication training
What is FCT?
to help a learner acquire new skills and become independent by providing the necessary support to succeed
What is the goal of prompting?
deliver reinforcement after a specific, unchanging number of responses
What is fixed ratio (FR)?
Taking something away to make a behavior happen again
What is negative reinforcement?
a process used to identify an individual's most-preferred items, activities, or social interactions, which are likely to serve as effective reinforcers and motivate learning
What is preference assessment?
Stands for natural environment training
What is NET?
the level of assistance provided to an individual to perform a task is gradually reduced, with the goal of enabling independent performance of the skill
What is prompt fading?
a behavior modification technique that involves reinforcing a desirable alternative behavior while withholding reinforcement for an undesirable behavior
What is differential reinforcement of alternative behaviors (DRA)?
a formal program that aims to extinguish inappropriate behavior and establishes appropriate alternative behavior to replace the inappropriate behavior
What is a BIP?
Attention, automatic, escape, tangible
What is 4 functions of behaviors?
Stands for discriminative stimulus
What is SD?
Independent-visual-verbal-gestural-modeling-partial physical-full physical
What is least-to-most prompting?
reduces unwanted behaviors by reinforcing the absence of that behavior during a set time period
What is differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO)?
When a learner can use a skill in different places, with different people, or materials
What is generalization?
Teaching small steps in a sequence until the learner can do the whole skill
What is chaining?
Stands for discrete trial training
What is DTT?
Full physical- partial physical-modeling-gestural-verbal-visual
What is most-to-least prompting?
a schedule of reinforcement where reinforcement is provided after an average, but unpredictable, number of responses
What is variable ratio (VR)?
When a behavior that used to get reinforced stops happening because it no longer works
What is extinction?
Gen. Sup notes, BIPs, lesson notes, etc.
What is where can you usually find information on how to run a session?