Measurement
Acronyms
Skill Acquisition
Behavior Reduction
Professionalism
100
Examples include MTS, whole-interval, and partial-interval.
What is discontinuous measurement?
100

A discontinuous measurement that requires the observer to record the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a behavior at the end moment of an interval.

What is MTS?

100
Reinforcing each occurrence of a behavior.
What is continuous reinforcement?
100

Attention, escape, automatic/sensory, and access to tangibles.

What are the four functions of behavior?

100
Extraneous variables that could affect your clients' behavior.
What are illnesses, medication changes, sleep disturbances, family issues, etc.?
200
Frequency and duration are examples of these.
What are continuous measurement methods?
200

Structured instruction led by the technician

What is DTT?

200

When in the maintenance phase, this type of prompting starts with the least intrusive help.

What is least-to-most prompting?

200

These procedures occur before a behavior and include NCR, FCT, and environmental manipulations.

What is antecedent control/interventions?

200
The code to which all RBTs, BCaBAs, and BCBAs are required to adhere.
What is the BACB's Professional and Ethical Compliance Code for Behavior Analysts?
300
Recording data based on what is left behind after the behavior occurs. Teachers use this when they grade papers.
What is permanent product recording?
300
This client-led intervention capitalizes on natural contingencies

What is NET?

300

This procedure looks like: SD, prompt, response, reinforcer, and an intertrial interval.

What are the steps of a discrete trial?

300

These reinforcement procedures require withholding reinforcement for a target behavior and providing reinforcement for alternative, incompatible, or desired rates of behavior.

What is differential reinforcement?

300
The set of rules and regulations that guide what client information can be shared and with whom it can be shared.
What is HIPAA?
400

This measurement requires the observer to record if the behavior happens during the entirety of an interval.

What is whole-interval recording?

400

This acronym isn't just for singing, it also refers to the antecedent, behavior, and consequences of a behavior.

What is the ABCs?

400

A reinforcer that does not require a learning history

What is an unconditioned reinforcer?

400

Environmental variables that strengthens the value of a reinforcer

What are motivating operations?

400
Not providing reinforcers that could adversely affect the long-term health of the clients.
What is avoiding harmful reinforcers?
500

This measurement phase of treatment does not include error corrections.

What is baseline?

500

This verbal behavior assessment is commonly used and includes targets such as 'tubby toy' and functional play.

What is the VB-MAPP?

500

In this reinforcement procedure, techs provide access to a reinforcer on a time-based schedule, independent of the learner's behavior.

What is non-contingent reinforcement?

500
No longer providing reinforcement for a given behavior.
What is extinction?
500
Relying on knowledge based on science when making professional judgments.
What is empiricism?
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