Verbal Behavior
Consequences
Schedules
Things you see in programs
Random ABA terms that you hear in the clinic
100

A verbal behavior where one speaker repeats the word of another speaker

Echoic

100

Adding a desired stimulus upon a behavior that will increase the likelihood of the behavior occurring in the future

Positive Reinforcement

100

A schedule where reinforcement is delivered after a set amount of time

Fixed Interval

100

A teaching strategy that guarantees that the learner will respond correctly

Errorless learning

100

When a previously reinforced behavior is no longer reinforced

Extinction

200

A verbal behavior where an individual makes a request

Mand

200

Adding an undesired stimulus upon a behavior that will decrease the likelihood of the behavior occurring in the future

Positive Punishment

200

A schedule where reinforcement is delivered after a set amount of correct responses.

Fixed Ratio

200

A procedure used when a learner engages in an incorrect response

Error Correction

200

The ability of a learner to perform a skill under different conditions across settings, people, and materials

Gerneralization

300

A verbal behavior where the speaker sees, hears, smells, tastes something and then comments about it

Tact

300

Removing a desired stimulus upon a behavior that will decrease the likelihood of the behavior occurring in the future

Negative Punishment

300

A schedule where reinforcement is delivered after an unpredictable amount of time.

Variable Interval 

300

Utilizing the learner’s natural environment for teaching opportunities

NET

300

A technique where a person will associate themselves with all of the learner’s favorite items and activities

Pairing

400

A verbal behavior where the speaker verbally responds to another speaker

Intraverbal

400

Removing an undesired stimulus upon a behavior that will increase the likelihood of the behavior occurring in the future

Negative Reinforcement

400

A schedule where reinforcement is delivered after an unpredictable amount of correct responses.

Variable Ratio

400

A level of assistance that is meant to encourage a learner to perform a desired behavior.

Prompt

400

Listener behavior used to respond to others

Receptive Communication 

500
A transfer of the ability to tact an item to successfully requesting the item 

Tact to mand transfer

500

The learner cleaned up really well. Therefore, the RBT/ABAT decreases the demand of a task from having to put away 3 toys away instead of 7. This is an example of 

Negative Reinforcement

500

A schedule where reinforcement is provided after each correct response 

FR1 or CRF

500

A level of assistance that is meant to encourage a learner to perform a desired behavior.

Discriminative stimulus (SD)

500

The reinforcer is no longer effective due to being overused

Satiation

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