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This ABA dimension requires selecting behaviors that are socially significant and meaningful to the individual.
What is Applied?
This ABA dimension requires the target behavior to be observable and measurable.
What is Behavioral?
This ABA dimension requires evidence of a functional relation between an intervention and behavior change.
What is Analytic?
This ABA dimension requires interventions to be described clearly enough for another practitioner to replicate them.
What is Technological?
This ABA dimension requires interventions to be grounded in established behavioral principles.
What is Conceptually Systematic?
This ABA dimension requires behavior change to be large enough to make a meaningful difference in the individual's life.
What is Effective?
This ABA dimension concerns behavior change lasting over time, appearing in other environments, or extending to related behaviors.
What is Generality?
A client learns to independently dress themselves, a skill that increases independence in daily living. Selecting this goal primarily demonstrates this dimension.
What is Applied?
An intervention produces significant improvements in the clinic, but the client does not demonstrate the skill at home. This dimension has not yet been demonstrated across settings.
What is Generality?
A behavior plan states 'provide reinforcement when appropriate' without specifying the response, reinforcer, or schedule. This ABA dimension is insufficiently addressed.
What is Technological?
This term refers to the activity of an organism, such as talking, writing, eating, or walking.
What is Behavior?
A child learns to initiate joint attention, leading to improvements in communication and other untrained skills. This type of behavior has broad developmental effects.
What is a Pivotal Behavior?
This simple rule states that if a deceased person could do it, the description does not identify an active behavior.
What is the Dead Man's Test?
Learning to read gives a child access to books, instructions, educational activities, and new sources of reinforcement. This is an example of this type of behavior.
What is a Behavioral Cusp?
A client says 'break' once after receiving a difficult worksheet. That single occurrence of behavior is called this.
What is a Response?
A client says 'help,' raises their hand, or presses an AAC button, and each response produces assistance. Together, these form this.
What is a Response Class?
This term refers to an environmental event or change that can affect an organism's behavior.
What is a Stimulus?
This term describes a group of stimuli sharing a defining characteristic, such as appearance, function, or temporal relation to behavior.
What is a Stimulus Class?
A learner sorts red balls, red blocks, and red pencils into the same group because they share a visible characteristic.
What is a Formal (Physical or Feature) Stimulus Class?
A stop sign, a raised hand signaling stop, and the spoken word 'stop' all occasion stopping behavior. This illustrates this class.
What is a Functional Stimulus Class?
A researcher groups stimuli according to whether they occur before a response or after it. This classification is based on this relationship.
What is a Temporal Stimulus Class?
A learner identifies a Kit Kat and a bottle of Dr Pepper as containing sugar, despite their different physical appearances. The study material labels this type of grouping as this.
What is an Arbitrary Stimulus Class?
Before beginning instruction, an RBT presents a task without teaching prompts to determine whether the learner can already perform it.
What is Probing?
A BCaBA measures a reduction in aggression following an intervention, but no experimental design demonstrates that the intervention caused the reduction. Which dimension is not established?
What is Analytic?
A learner can independently use public transportation and consequently gains access to jobs, community activities, and new reinforcers. Is this primarily a pivotal behavior or a behavioral cusp?
What is a Behavioral Cusp?