Basic Terms
This is the science of behavior that focuses on principles to improve socially significant behavior.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis
This type of reinforcement adds something to increase a behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
Adding something to decrease a behavior.
Positive punishment
A child cries to get a cookie. This is the function
What is frequency recording?
The event that follows a behavior and affects its future occurrence.
What is a consequence
This removes something to increase a behavior.
What is negative reinforcement?
Taking away something to decrease behavior
Negative punishment
A student throws a rock to avoid doing work
What is escape or avoidance?
Measuring how long a behavior lasts
What is duraction recording?
The measurable and observable part of an organism's interaction with the environment.
What is a consequence
Reinforcement given after a fixed number of responses
What is a fixed ratio schedule?
A brief time-out is an example of this
What is negative punishment?
A child spins in circles and claps repeatedly alone
What is automatic reinforcement (sensory) ?
This is taken before intervention to determine the current behavior level
What is baseline data?
The stimulus that occurs before a behavior.
The process by which a reinforcer no longer increases behavior.
What is extinction?
When punishment temporarily reduces behavior but behavior returns stronger later.
What is the punishment effect or resurgence?
Giving a child a preferred toy every time they engage in problem behavior supports this function.
What is access to tangicles?
A type of interval recording where you only mark if the behavior happens at the end of the interval.
What is momentary time sampling?
The process of using reinforcement or punishment to change behavior.
What is behavior modification?
Praise, tokens, and money are examples of this kind of reinforcer.
What is a conditioned reinforcer?
A punishment procedure in which the learner must repeat a correct form of the behavior several times.
What is positive practice?
These are the four common functions of behavior
What are escape, attention, tangibles, and automatic?
Measuring the time between instruction and the initiation of a response
What is latency?