Behavior Change Basics
What is the process called that systematically and differentially reinforces successive approximations to a desired behavior?
What is shaping?
This instructional approach focuses on developing stimulus equivalence, including reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity.
What is equivalence-based instruction?
This teaching method is highly structured, involves clear instructions, and uses repetition and reinforcement.
What is Discrete-Trial Teaching?
This form of verbal behavior involves an individual responding to the verbal behavior of others without the presence of the original stimulus.
What is intraverbal behavior?
This reinforcement strategy involves providing reinforcement only when the target behavior occurs at lower rates than previously.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Responding (DRL)?
This term describes a specific sequence of responses where each response and the associated stimulus serve as an individual component of the chain.
What is a behavior chain?
This antecedent intervention is used for increasing compliance and involves presenting a series of high-probability commands before a low-probability command.
What is the high-probability instructional sequence?
A teaching strategy that embeds learning opportunities within child-led interactions and emphasizes the teaching of functional and relevant skills.
What is Naturalistic Teaching?
A foundational skill in verbal behavior that involves imitating the sounds or words spoken by others, crucial for developing more complex communication skills.
What is echoic training?
A type of reinforcement where access to reinforcement is based on performing an alternative behavior that serves the same function as the challenging behavior but is more desirable.
What is Functional Communication Training (FCT)?
These are considered the three main components of a token economy.
What are tokens, a system for exchanging tokens, and target behaviors?
The differential reinforcement procedure that involves providing reinforcement for an alternative behavior while withholding reinforcement for the challenging behavior.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA)?
This form of teaching allows for self-paced learning in a less structured environment and emphasizes opportunities for initiative.
What is Free-Operant Teaching?
This strategy is focused on teaching an individual to communicate specific needs or wants, and is often the first operant taught to enhance communication skills.
What is mand training?
This strategy provides reinforcement after an interval of time during which the challenging behavior does not occur.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)?
Identify the type of group contingency that provides reinforcement to the group based on the behavior of one individual or a small group within the larger group.
What is a dependent group contingency?
In contingency contracting, these are the three components that must be defined.
What are task (or target behavior), reward, and task record (data)?
The type of teaching that involves assessing a client's current repertoire and is considered the first operant to teach because it enables clients to communicate needs.
What is Mand Training?
The goal of this training is for the client to emit responses controlled by non-verbal stimuli in the environment, such as pointing to an object when its name is mentioned.
What is tact training?
A form of reinforcement where the alternative behavior is physically incompatible with the challenging behavior, making it impossible for both behaviors to occur simultaneously.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)?
This type of self-management strategy involves a person organizing consequences to be delivered following the occurrence or nonoccurrence of one’s own behavior.
What is self-administered consequences?
This self-management strategy involves a person observing their own behavior and recording instances of their target behaviors.
What is self-monitoring?
This educational methodology involves breaking a skill into smaller steps and systematically teaching each step until the whole task can be completed.
What is Task Analysis?
This involves teaching clients to respond appropriately to the verbal instructions of others, a key component in developing compliance and listening skills.
What is listener responding training?
This approach modifies the environment to decrease the likelihood of a challenging behavior by manipulating antecedents that influence the behavior.
What are antecedent interventions?