Verbal Operants
A learner sees a picture of a fire truck and says "fire truck." This verbal operant is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus.
What is a tact?
Caroline is given a cookie every time she helps her practicum supervisor with a supervision.
What is an FR1 or CRF?
This principle states that higher-probability behaviors can reinforce lower-probability behaviors.
What is Premack Principle?
Amelia is biting her technician every time she wants a snack. The technician wants her to stop, so she gives her the snack. The BCBA has the technician stop rewarding this and instead, teaches her to ask for the snack with her AAC device.
What is DRA?
This assessment identifies variables maintaining problem behavior through experimental manipulation of antecedents and consequences.
What is functional analysis?
Repeating "The sky is blue" after hearing someone else say it is an example of this verbal operant.
What is an echoic?
Sarah S knows her friends only go out for food once every 6-7 days. When she asks Emily to go get Coney, Emily says yes and they go. Emily says no when Sarah asks again 4 days later, 5 days later, and 6 days later, but on the 7th day, she says yes.
What is FI7?
Bob is engaging in lots of elopement during circle time. His tech keeps a stopwatch running and about every minute and a half, checks what Bob is doing. If Bob is not engaged in elopement, he gets a star on his token board.
What is DRO?
The extent to which an intervention produces meaningful change in socially important behaviors is called this.
What is social validity?
Unlike tacts, this verbal operant is primarily controlled by deprivation, satiation, or aversive stimulation.
What is a mand?
Emily's math teacher says that she can either work for 10 minutes and then ask for a break, or complete 30 addition problems and then have a break.
What is an alternative schedule of reinforcement?
When reinforcement for one response decreases the future frequency of another response because they share a limited response allocation, this phenomenon may be occurring.
What is behavioral contrast?
Ayesha begins going to the gym and you want her to keep it up. Initially, she goes once per week, but you implement a plan where she earns tokens that she can trade for fun outings and slowly increase the number of times she is going to the gym per week.
What is DRH?
This schedule of reinforcement typically produces high, steady response rates with minimal post-reinforcement pauses.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
Saying "dog" after hearing "cat" because both are animals is an example of this verbal operant.
What is an intraverbal?
Sarah R goes to her aunties’ house every Saturday. Her auntie takes her to get ice cream every time she asks. She normally goes to Dairy Queen 2-3 times each Saturday. At home, her parents only take her once every 20ish times she asks.
What is a multiple schedule of reinforcement?
Kosai has been punching people in the face during math. When the professor tries to stop him, Kosai punches him in the face too, so the professor calls the high school security guards and they handcuff Kosai and take him to a room by himself. They leave him there? (two terms)
What is seclusion and restraint?
Andie is working on eating with a kiddo that does not use utensils. Right now, the kiddo shovels food into their mouth at a rate that is much too fast and unsafe. Andie begins allowing bites of food if and only if the learner waits a certain amount of time from the previous bite to try again.
What is DRL?
When behavior changes in the same direction as reinforcement rates allocated across alternatives, this quantitative relation is described by this law.
What is matching law?
This verbal operant involves point-to-point correspondence but no formal similarity.
What is textual behavior?
During extinction, behavior maintained by this schedule is often the most resistant to decrease.
What is variable ratio schedule?
Jordan has been throwing the credit card at Kosai every time that he asks to use it. Kosai walks up to Jordan before asking, grabs her hand when she tries to throw it, and physically prompts her to hand it to him.
What is response interruption and redirection (RIRD)?
Alaina is a BCBA that is working with a kiddo that engages in frequent, severe aggression. She needs to pick a differential reinforcement strategy for the kiddo, but the function of the aggression is not determined at this time, and he does not have a lot of preferred activities.
What is DRI?
In stimulus equivalence, if a learner demonstrates A=B and B=C, the emergence of A=C without direct teaching demonstrates this property.
What is transitivity?