Acronyms
Terms
Reinforcement & Punishment
Teaching Strategies
Misc.
100

PBS stands for....

What is Positive Behavior Support

100

This term refers to the activity of living organisms that is observable (overt or covert)

What is behavior

100

Positive reinforcement occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the _________ of a stimulus that ______ the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions.

What is presentation, increases

100

This strategy involves reinforcing the behavior in the presence of some stimuli (Sds) and not in the presence of other stimuli (S deltas)

What is discrimination training

100

Being thirsty is an example of what principle of behavior?

What is motivating operation?

200

This term is referred to as an FBA

What is What is a Functional Behavior Assessment

200

The learner, the behavior, the mastery criterion, and the condition

What are the components of an objective?
200

Positive punishment occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the _________ of a stimulus that ______the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions

What is presentation, decreases

200

This strategy involves reinforcing all other behaviors other than the target behavior, which you want to decrease.

What is differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO)

200
The seven dimensions of ABA

applied, behavioral, analytic, conceptual systems, generality, effective, technological systems

300

This term is referred to as SD

What is discriminative stimulus

300

This is the process of breaking a complex skill or series of behaviors into smaller, teachable units; also refers to the result of this process.

What is task analysis

300

Negative reinforcement occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the _________ of a stimulus that ______the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions

What is removal, increases

300

This strategy involves withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.

What is extinction

300

This is an increase in the frequency of responding when an extinction procedure is initially implemented

What is an extinction burst

400

This is commonly referred to as “ABC”

What is Antecedent Behavior Consequence

400

When you reinforce successive approximations (ie, baby steps) to a terminal behavior (ie, your end goal)

What is shaping

400

Negative punishment occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the _________ of a stimulus that ______the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions

What is removal, decreases

400

A prompt occurs _______ the behavior. 

What is before

400
Giving a student poker chips that they can "cash in" for a preferred activity is an example of...

What is a token system?

500

ABC refers to

What is antecedent-behavior-consequence

500

This is when you reinforce an appropriate response and place an inappropriate response on extinction

What is differential reinforcement of alternative behavior

500

This is only reinforcing those responses within a response class that meet a specific criterion along some dimension (i.e., frequency, topography, duration, latency, magnitude) and placing all other responses in the class of extinction

What is differential reinforcement

500

This procedure is used for transferring stimulus control in which features of an antecedent stimulus controlling a behavior are gradually changed to a new stimulus while maintaining the current behavior

What is fading

500


Who is BF Skinner

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