DR & Antecedent Control
The acronym for a differential reinforcement to eliminate a behavior.
What is DRO?
The initial stage of learning when a new behavior is first established and then strengthened.
What is acquisition?
A stimulus or event that precedes a target behavior.
What is an antecedent?
The process of identifying the antecedent behaviors that evoke a problem behavior and examination of the reinforcing consequences that maintain the behavior.
What is functional assessment?
Another name for extinction following negative reinforcement.
What is escape extinction?
An attempt to increase desirable behavior by reinforcing a desirable communication response that serves the same function as an undesirable behavior.
What is DRC (Differential Reinforcement of Communication) or FCT(Functional Communication Training?
A type of conditioning in which a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus are presented at the same time.
What is Simultaneous Conditioning?
The relationship between an antecedent, a behavior, and the consequence.
What is the three-term contingency or the ABC Model?
Sensory stimulation, escape/avoidance, attention, and access to tangible rewards.
What are the four functions of behavior?
A group of responses that all have the same functional value
What is a response class?
Procedures to identify reinforcers.
What are Preference Assessments?
When a NS becomes paired with an already established CS-CR pairing.
What is Higher Order Conditioning?
Multiple stimuli that all have the same functional effect on a target behavior.
What is a Stimulus Class?
Interviews and questionnaires
What are indirect methods of functional assessment?
An extinction procedure for attention-seeking behavior.
What is planned ignoring?
Presenting discriminative stimuli for desirable behaviors and increasing response effort for competing undesirable behaviors.
What are examples of antecedent control?
Salivating for food, gag reflex, and avoidance of pain.
What are some examples of behaviors influenced by respondent conditioning?
A type of generalization due to the physical similarity of a response or stimulus. Examples include driving a car, hitting a tennis ball vs racquetball and attending classes
What is Unlearned Generalization?
A specific functional assessment procedure to identify patterns of behaviors.
What is a Scatterplot?
Making arrangements to promote generalization & maintenance in the long-term.
What is the final step in the extinction process?
Antecedent Control, Differential Reinforcement and Extinction.
What are the three functional interventions?
Previous exposure to the CS, intensity of the stimuli and the number of pairings between the NS and the UCS.
What are some factors that influence respondent conditioning?
A process in which behavior is reinforced when a discriminative stimulus is present and is extinguished when the S-delta is present, which makes a behavior more likely to occur when the discriminative stimulus is present.
What is Stimulus Discrimination Training?
When a range of possible functions of behavior are explored using the scientific method.
What is Exploratory Functional Analysis?
Tendency toward frustration, unwitting 3rd Parties who undo your work, and spontaneous recovery
What are some challenges in using extinction?