ABA Fundamentals
The act of a neutral stimulus taking on the qualities of a preferred item through repeated presentation together.
What is pairing?
This determines when and how often a behavior is reinforced.
What is schedule of reinforcement?
A visual aid that cues a learner to a sequence of activities that they will complete.
What is a visual schedule?
The 6 BACA locations
What are Hillsdale, BACA Fish, BACA Prep, Zionsville, Elkhart, and Crown Point?
Highly structured approach to teaching where skills are broken into small, discrete steps.
What is Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT)?
A consequence strategy that decreases the future frequency of a behavior.
What is punishment?
A learner receives a token after completing an average of 4 correct responses.
Prompting a learner to mand for something before the learner has an opportunity to engage in other behaviors to access something in their environment.
What is Functional Communication Training (FCT)?
The original Behavior Analysis Center for Autism opened on this month of this year
What is October 2009?
Providing most effective prompt while teaching to ensure the learner does not have an opportunity to error on the presented target.
What is errorless teaching?
An RBT looks up when the timer sounds at the end of a 5-min interval. The RBT marks if the behavior is occurring at that time.
This procedure combines putting one behavior on extinction while simultaneously providing reinforcement for another behavior.
What is differential reinforcement?
"First____ Then ____"
What is premack principle?
The founders of BACA
Who are Carl and Devon Sundburg?
This teaching style is client led and follows the client's motivation to teach skills as they occur.
What is Natural Environment Teaching (NET)?
Data that is collected before any teaching or intervention is implemented.
What is Baseline Data?
A learner is given a piece of candy after manding for "candy".
What is positive reinforcement?
Providing a learner information about an upcoming transition, task, or activity.
"In 2 minutes we will walk back to the classroom."
What is priming?
3 adjunct consultants for BACA locations
Who are Carl Sundburg, Bob Ryan, and Troy Fry?
Focuses on teaching skills to automaticity where the learner gives the accurate response quickly on each trial without much effort.
What is teaching to fluency?
The dimension of ABA that ensures interventions, teaching instructions, protocols, and strategies are clearly defined so that it can be understood and easily replicated.
What is Technological?
Summer used to incidentally receive reinforcement when her RBT would remove worksheets after she engaged in crying and flopping. Now her RBT only removes the worksheets when Summer says "I need a break."
What is DRA?
Cassie receives praise, high fives, and free access to her toy box regardless of behavior reducing the motivation to engage in problem behavior.
What is Noncontingent Reinforcement (NCR)?
Indiana's State Chapter of ABA
What is Hoosier Association for Behavior Analysis (HABA)?
Gradually reducing the amount of assistance provided to perform the skill or behavior. This helps prevent prompt dependency and helps teach to an independent response.