Concepts and Principles
____ Increases the likelihood that a behavior will occur again, and ____ decreases the likelihood that a behavior will occur again.
What is reinforcement and punishment?
Susan is working as a BCBA in her clients home. One day the client's mom asks Susan to babysit the client since they get along so well. This scenario would be considered a _____ ______.
What is a multiple relationship?
Ethan a BCBA is getting information on their client by conducting a FAST questionnaire with the client's mom. This type of assessment would be considered a ____ ____.
What is an indirect assessment?
This type of differential reinforcement method reinforces a behavior that cannot be engaged in at the same time as the targeted behavior.
What is differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior?
The three parts of a good operational definition are that it must be ____ _____ and _____.
Clear, Objective, and Measurable
Timmy was being disruptive during class, his teacher gave him extra homework. Timmy is now disruptive less often in class. Timmy's teacher used _____ _____ to change his behavior.
What is Positive Punishment
Susan gets a request to work with a 6 week old infant on feeding. Susan has never worked with infants before. If Susan were to take this client it would violate the BACB ethics code because working with infants are not in Susan's ____ _____ ____
What is scope of practice / competency?
This type of preference assessment involves allowing the client free access to an array of items while taking notes on what they are interacting with.
What is a free operant preference assessment?
This type of response prompting procedure starts with the least intrusive form of prompt and graduates to more intrusive prompts as needed.
What is lest-to-most prompting?
This type of measurement tracks the result of a behavior after it has occurred.
What is permanent product recording?
Timmy learned to say "break", Timmy then learned to use the sign for break to escape, and finally Timmy learned to enter his quiet area when he needed a break. Timmy is showing _____ ______.
What is response generalization (Different Behavior, Same stimulus)
What is confidential information (identifiable information)?
This type of Functional Analysis focuses on the time it takes for a behavior to occur after a specific event or trigger.
What is a latency-based FA?
This type of generalized conditioned reinforcer is exchanged for a backup reinforcer.
What is a token?
This semi-logarithmic chart is used to display the rate of behavior over time and is commonly used in precision teaching to analyze learning progress.
What is a celeration chart?
Timmy was told that he should never stick things in power outlets, and so he doesn't. Johnny stuck a fork in a power outlet one time and got shocked, but has not done it since. Timmy's behavior is considered a ___ ____ ____ and Johnny's is a _____ _____ _____.
What is Rule Governed Behavior and Contingency Shaped Behavior.
Susan has a client that has met all their goals and decides to that it may be best to end services. The client's mom agrees that there is not much more that the child needs worked on either. Susan could be in violation of the BACB code if she does not create an adequate ____ ____ for the client.
What is a transition plan?
These are the four common conditions in a FA.
What is control, attention, demand, and tangible?
Susan is teaching a client to request for snacks. Susan limits the client's access to the snacks. During the session with the client, Susan places the snack on the table, then asks "what do you want?". The snack is acting as a
What is a motivating operation?
This measurement method records the number of opportunities it takes for a learner to reach a predetermined mastery level for a skill or behavior.
What is trials to criterion?
This type of schedule of reinforcement occurs when two schedules of reinforcement are present and the person may choose freely between them.
What is concurrent schedules of reinforcement?
Susan got a request for services from a Spanish family. Susan does not speak Spanish but figures she can use google translate. Susan is violating the BACB ethics code by not showing _____ _____.
Cultural Humility
What is a descriptive FA?
This type of group contingency relies on an individual or small group's behavior in order for the whole group to reach reinforcement.
What is a dependent group contingency.
A behavior analyst reviews a line graph showing rates of hand-raising across baseline and intervention phases. In the intervention phase, data points are consistently higher than in baseline, but vary greatly from session to session. Despite this, the slope of the data path increases steadily. This pattern suggests what combination of data features?
What are a positive trend, high variability, and increased level?