Back to the Basics
Leaving a specific area without being given permission
What is elopement
Observable, measurable events
What is behavior
The result of reinforcement is an ______ in behavior
What is increase
Prompting the learner towards the correct response using motions such as pointing, nodding and eye gaze.
What is gestural prompting
List the four functions of behavior.
What is attention, access, escape and automatic
Reinforcement that occurs independent of the social mediation of others
What is automatic reinforcement
Improves behavior in a practical manner, not simply making a change that is statistically significant
What is effective
Systematically reinforcing approximations of a behavior is _______.
What is shaping
The prompting method used in errorless teaching
What is most-to-least prompting
Lucy runs away each time her therapist presents work demands. State the function(s) of Lucy's elopement.
What is escape
Behavior that is a product of a persons' history of interactions with the environment (conditioned)
What is operant behavior
Describes when the experimenter has demonstrated a functional relationship between independent and dependent variables
What is analytical
Completing every step of a sequence of behaviors for the learner except the last step
What is backwards chaining
The type of prompt that is the most difficult to fade
What is a verbal prompt
Fred engages in nail biting. He engages in this behavior across all environments. However, whenever he is required to complete a typing task, he engages in a higher frequency of nail biting which delays the completion of the typing task. State the function(s) of Fred's nail biting.
What is escape and automatic reinforcement
Reinforcing one response class and withholding reinforcement for the other
What is differential reinforcement
Extends behavior change across time, settings or other behaviors
What is generality
Having the learner complete the first step in a sequence of behavior, then prompting the remaining steps
What is forward chaining
When a learner requires assistance to complete a skill on a regular basis
What is prompt dependency?
Sarah's mom is on the phone when Sarah needs to talk to her mom. Sarah is tugging at her mom's leg and screaming that she needs to talk to her. At first, Sarah's mom is ignoring Sarah. But then, Sarah begins to hit her head on the floor. Worried, Sarah's mom immediately hangs up the phone and begins to comfort Sarah. Poor Sarah! State the function(s) of Sarah's behavior.
What is attention
The collective of real circumstances in which the organism exists
What is the environment
All procedures used should be tied to the basic principles of behavior analysis
What is conceptually systematic
A procedure 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
A learner is working on receptively identifying common objects in a field of 3. The therapist places the correct response in front of the array. This is an example of __________.
What is a positional prompt
Adam is sitting at the dinner table scrolling through his iPad, casually. He takes very slow bites. His mother removes his iPad because she views it as a distraction to Adam eating his dinner. Upon the removal of the iPad, Adam immediately begins to swipe things off the table and bang his fork on the table. When Adam goes to swipe his dinner plate, his mom yells at him to 'stop!', and then places the iPad down next to Adam. State the function(s) of Adam's mom's behavior.
What is escape