Lessons
A procedure used to teach new skills. The BT prompts immediately prompts the correct response and slowly fades prompts across trials, preventing the patient from making errors.
What is Errorless Learning?
Process of reinforcing successive approximations to target a behavior while extinguishing previous approximations.
What is Shaping?
Interventions used to prevent a behavior from happening
What are Antecedent Modifications?
Term for cupped hand position used when blocking
What is Barbie Hands?
Mary made the personal information lesson into a fun game to increase engagement and make it less aversive.
What is Task Modification?
Presenting SDs in a random order to teach discrimination between the stimuli.
What is Random Rotation?
Arranging the environment or stimuli to create a learning opportunity that's functionally reinforcing.
What is Contriving?
These are the four main functions of a behavior
What is Tangible, Attention, Escape, and Automatic"?
Common trend that occurs when aggression/self-injurious behaviors are successfully blocked
What is Extinction Burst? - or "the behavior will increase"
Mary is practicing the eye contact lesson with her client. When she presents the SD "Look at me", she blows bubbles.
What is Stimulus Manipulation Prompt?
A teaching process that breaks down complex activities into a series of simple steps that patients can learn more easily.
What is Task Analysis?
Environmental factors, conditions, or events that may increase or decrease the effectiveness of a reinforcer.
What is Motivating Operation?
The withholding of previously occurring reinforcement contingent upon a behavior.
What is Extinction?
Type of transition used when client is known to be aggressive, known to drop to the floor, and is taller than your waist.
What is Two-person Carry?
Mary reinforces the client asking for a break on average every three responses.
What is a Variable Reinforcement Schedule? (VR3)
A procedure that is used when stimuli is presented in a field at the same time and the patient is asked to select a particular target.
What is Simultaneous Discrimination Training?
Patients must be able to retain the skills they learn in order to use them in their lives. This is considered ___.
What is Maintenance?
Something that all replacement behaviors must be.
What is Functionally Equivalent?
First thing you do when an aggressor gets their hands tangled in your hair.
What is Securing your Head?
Mary reinforces the client for bouncing a ball instead of the client flapping their hands.
What Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior? (DRI)
Skills that are currently being taught are referred to as in ___.
What is Acquisition?
New untrained behaviors that are functionally equivalent to trained behaviors start to occur without instruction.
What is Response Generalization?
State the Core Principle of ABA.
Desirable consequences will increase behavior, whereas undesirable consequences will decrease behavior?
Method used to locate the ring and pinky finger of aggressor when being grabbed/hair pulled.
What is the Hunt and Peck?
Mary does not like loud noises, so she walks out of a loud room.
What is Negative Automatic Reinforcement?