Terminology
Types of Stimuli
B-mod in action
Functional Behavioral Asessment
Name that Function
100
The way in which an animal or person acts in response to a particular situation or stimulus.
What is behavior?
100
The adding of a pleasant, desirable stimulus to increase a behavior or response.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
100
Susie gets caught passing a note. Her teacher makes her write 100 times on the blackboard "I will not pass notes."
What is Punishment?
100
When asked to complete his work, Bill will sit at his desk with his arms folded and state "I'm not doing it." This usually occurs 3 times each day.
What is defining the target behavior.
100
Bill swears and storms out of the room when it is his trun to read. No one will find out today how badly he can read.
What is escape avoidance?
200
A form of conditioning which utilizes an unpleasant, undesirable stimulus or consequence.
What is Punishment?
200
The adding of an unpleasant, undesirable stimulus to decrease a certain behavior or response.
What is Positive Punishment?
200
Sister Mary catches Bobby not listening and hits him with a ruler on his hand.
What is Corporal Punishment?
200
During group reading time, Bob makes unrelated comments, noises or teases other students when it it his turn to read.
What is a concurrent event?
200
When Bill is asked to read he makes silly noises and jokes about the book. He prtends to read in a funny voice and makes up his own story. His classmates howl with laughter. "Thank-you, thank-you", Bill says, "I love working this room".
What is attention/control?
300
A thing which is given in recognition of service, effort, or achievement.
What is a reward?
300
To give someone attention and approval for being well behaved.
What is Positive attention?
300
Bobby is always yelling out the answers in class. His teacher never calls on him, even if he is the only student who responds. Bobby is told to raise his hand when he wants to be called on. When he does, his teacher always calls on him and gives him a great deal of praise for doing so.
What is a replacement behavior?
300
When Bob is prompted to quiet down and read aloud to the class he refuses and becomes argumentative. When his teacher continues to argue and insist Bob begins to swear and stroms out of the room.
What is a behavior chain?
300
During lunch time, Bill always bugs the same girl. He steals her backpack, throws things at her and teases her. If only she knew how much he liked her.
What is communication?
400
A thing which rouses activity or energy in someone or something; a spur or incentive.
What is a Stimulus?
400
To give someone attention for misbehavior.
What is Negative attention?
400
Sally taps on her desk continuously with a pencil. Her teacher does her best to ignore it, but her eyelid is beginning to twitch. Sally taps louder and louder until her teacher can stand it no more. Finally she yells loudly enough for the whole school to hear, "Sally stop tapping that pencil"! Sally leans back in her chair and smiles.
What is negative attention?
400
When Bill is asked to read aloud to his classmates, he argues with his teacher, makes silly noises or storms out of the classroom in order to avoid having to read and look bad in front of his classmates.
What is a functional theory?
500
To extinguish an undesirable behavior (by removing the reinforcer) and replace it with a desirable behavior by reinforcement.
What is Behavior Modification?
500
The taking away of a pleasant, desirable stimulus to decrease a certain behavior.
What is Negative Punishment?
500
Bob gets a gold star sticker from his teacher for everyday he brings in completed homework. He brings these home where his parents stick them to a chart on the fridge. When he gets 10 of these he has a choice of getting a toy from the dollar store, having ice cream with his dad or renting a movie.
What is a token economy
500
Testing by the reading teacher reveals that Bill is reading significantly below grade level and would not be capable of reading aloud the text the teacher has asked him to.
What is a skills deficit?
500
Bill enjoys helping his teacher organize materials and clean up the classroom. He enjoys helping other students with math, which he is very good at. Bill will always stand up for kids who are being picked on.
What are prosocial behaviors?
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