Antecedent Manipulation
A technique used in ABA to help form and maintain rapport with a child by combining the learning environment and the client with already established reinforcers (items that are rewarding)
Pairing
Adding something to the environment to increase a target behavior
Positive Reinforcement
A term that is used for when skills are taught or generalized within the natural environment.
Natural Environment Training
Providing assistance or cues to encourage the use of a specific skill is known as
Prompting
Reinforcing a target behavior while withholding reinforcement from an unwanted behavior. The goal is to replace unwanted behaviors with desirable behaviors.
Differential Reinforcement
One can alter the _________ so that an antecedent is less likely to occur
Environment
An instructional strategy that involves intermingling easy and hard teaching trials as a tactic to maintain student motivation.
Task Interspersal
Removing a token from a client's choice board is an example of what
Response Cost (AKA negative punishment)
An item of illustrative matter, such as a film, slide, or model, designed to supplement written or spoken information so that it can be understood more easily
Visual Aid or Video Modeling
Differential reinforcement of ___________ behavior is a procedure in which the teacher would identify a behavior that’s incompatible with, or cannot occur at the same time as, the problem behavior.
Incompatible (DRI)
Anyone can implement the __________ to gain compliance, or to increase the likelihood of a particular behavior occurring.
Premack Principle
Removing something from the environment to decrease a target behavior
Negative Punishment
This procedures focuses on the rules and behaviors that help individuals interact with one another.
Some examples of skills targeted:
Initiating conversations
Greetings
Appropriate eye contact
Social interaction
How to behave in specific social and community settings
Understanding emotions and facial expressions
Social Skills Training
Chaining is also known as a
Task Analysis
A procedure in which reinforcement that is provided for problem behavior (often unintentionally) is discontinued in order to decrease or eliminate occurrences of these types of negative (or problem) behaviors.
Extinction
If the function of the student’s behavior is attention and the behavior occurs approximately every 60 minutes, the adult provides attention or check ins every 45 minutes.
Non-Contingent Reinforcement
If a client receives an edible for requesting the potty, is this a punishment or reinforcement procedure?
Reinforcement (increasing requesting potty behavior in the future)
An evidence-based practice used to decrease interfering behaviors, predominantly those that are repetitive, stereotypical, and self-injurious in nature
Response interruption/redirection
The goal of a ___________ is to promote independence by providing the individual information on what to do in a designated work area.
Structured Work System
When a client is exposed to small amounts of the aversive situation until they are calm during the presentation of the step and receive reinforcement (e.g. edibles, preferred activities, praise, etc.)
Systematic Desensitization
The child is then taught to select the shoe when the direction is placed to touch the shoe. As success shows, the child is then asked to select the shoe when next to a spoon and a toy, for example.
Discrimination Training
When a client asks for headphones when they hear a peer crying, is an example of?
Negative Reinforcement (something is removed from the environment aka escaping an aversive- the peer crying) so requesting the headphones is more likely to occur in the future
A ______ is a personalized story written specifically for the child. It will include clear, concrete language and related pictures or photographs (especially for visual learners and emerging readers) and will be written with the child’s vocabulary and comprehension skills in mind.
Social Narrative
Time delay is an example of
Name the six types of differential reinforcement procedures
DRO (Other)
DRI (Incompatible)
DRA (Alternative)
DRH (High Rates)
DRD (Diminishing Rates)
DRL (Low Rates)