Terms and Concepts
Teaching across different people, places, or materials is called ____.
What is generalization?
Adding something after a behavior that increases the behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
A child repeatedly shakes their head for the sensory feeling.
What is sensory/ automatic reinforcement?
Keeping client identities private is part of this principle.
What is confidentiality?
Recording every instance of a behavior.
What is frequency recording?
A cue in the environment signaling that reinforcement is available for a certain response.
What is a discriminative stimulus (SD)?
Allowing a client to take a break after completing a difficult task is an example of this.
What is negative reinforcement?
A client rips up a worksheet and immediately the teacher removes the task.
What is escape-maintained behavior?
If a parent asks you to change or add a program step, you must do this.
What is refer them to the BCBA?
Recording how long a behavior lasts.
What is duration recording?
When a behavior reliably occurs only in the presence of a specific SD, this is called ____.
What is stimulus control?
These reinforcers do not require pairing with other stimuli to increase behavior and are sometimes called primary reinforcers.
What are unconditioned reinforcers?
Running to the pantry and opening it to get a snack.
What is access to tangibles?
RBTs must avoid these types of relationships that could impair professional judgment.
What are dual relationships?
ABC data is primarily used to help determine this.
What is the function of behavior?
This teaching method starts by prompting all steps except the last, allowing the learner to contact natural reinforcement immediately upon completing that final step.
What is backward chaining?
Reinforcing a functionally equivalent replacement behavior while placing the problem behavior on extinction.
What is differential reinforcement? or
What is DRA (Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior)?
The four functions of beahvior
What are escape, attention, tangible, and sensory?
An RBT cannot accept a gift from a client exceeding this amount:
What is $10?
Recording whether each step of a multi-step skill is completed independently or with assistance is called this.
What is task analysis data collection?
These four basic verbal operants are commonly taught in ABA:
What are mands, tacts, echoics, and intraverbals?
A previously neutral stimulus that becomes reinforcing after being paired with something already reinforcing.
What is a conditioned reinforcer?
This term describes a behavior that produces more than one reinforcing outcome.
What is multiple functions?
RBTs must avoid situations where personal relationships may influence professional decisions.
What are conflicts of interest?
During a DTT task, the therapist gives a gestural prompt, and then a partial physical prompt. The therapist records "partial physical" in the data sheet. This reflects the requirement to record ____.
What is the most intrusive / most supportive prompt used?