Verbal Operants
Positives and Negatives
Functions
Interventions
Vocabulary
100
"Mommy, I want a cookie"
What is a mand?
100
A stimulus is added to the environment which increases the future frequency of the behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
100
A child runs away when his mom tells him to clean his room.
What is escape?
100
The teacher provides a prompt immediately after the Sd to avoid mistakes.
What is errorless learning?
100
The way the behavior looks.
What is form or topography?
200
"Look, its a car!"
What is a tact?
200
A stimulus is removed from the environment which decreases the future frequency of a behavior.
What is negative punishment?
200
A child whines and cries until he gets a lollipop.
What is denied access?
200
Adjusting the program to teach a replacement skill to try to prevent the future occurrence of the behavior.
What is an antecedent manipulation?
200
The rate of behavior prior to beginning an intervention.
What is baseline?
300
Say "dog". Child says "dog"
What is an echoic?
300
A stimulus is removed from the environment which increases the future frequency of the behavior.
What is negative reinforcement?
300
A child throws a toy and immediately looks up at the teacher and smiles.
What is attention?
300
Physically intervening so that the person cannot complete the target behavior.
What is response blocking?
300
Gradual modification of a person's behavior to perform a target behavior.
What is shaping?
400
"What is something you bake?"
What is an intraverbal?
400
A stimulus is added to the environment which decreases the future frequency of the behavior.
What is positive punishment?
400
A person lays in the sun to get warm.
What is automatic reinforcement?
400
Skills are broken down into small components and are taught in a specific order.
What is chaining?
400
A change in the environment that alters the effectiveness of a reinforcer.
What is a Motivating Operation or Establishing Operation?
500
Find the one that has stripes.
What is Receptive Feature, Function, Class?
500
The temporary increase in target behavior when reinforcement no longer occurs.
What is an extinction burst?
500
The child is presented with a demand and he runs away and laughs.
What is multiply controlled behavior (both attention and escape)?
500
Re-presentation of an Sd that was prompted in order to get a more independent response.
What is a transfer trial?
500
Anything an organism does.
What is behavior?
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