ABA Definitions
A step-by-step detailed description of all the behaviors that must occur in order to produce an outcome or final performance.
What is task analysis?
Whether positive or negative, these maintain behavior.
What is consequences?
The client receives reinforcement for every single response.
What is Continuous Reinforcement?
_________ is gained through presenting a high-P sequence.
What is behavioral momentum?
A behavior is put on _________ if you are no longer providing reinforcement for that behavior.
What is extinction?
This intervention involves manipulating the environment prior to a target behavior occurring.
What is antecedent intervention?
This type of reinforcement does not require someone else to deliver it to you.
What is automatic reinforcement?
What are 3 types of NET teaching methods?
What is Incidental Teaching, PRT, and FCT.
Reinforcing successive approximations of a behavior and over time, the client begins to engage in the target behavior.
What is shaping?
The clinician is withholding a reinforcer or stimulus in order to make it more valuable. What has occurred?
What is deprivation?
This is an unpleasent or painful stimulus.
What is aversive stimulus?
What has occured in the following? A client walks up to a peer playing with a toy and starts to reach towards the peer’s toy/ ___________ occurs when the technician prompts the client to ask “my turn”.
What is incidental teaching?
The supervisor is present, and just due to the presence of the supervisor, the RBT's behavior has changed.
What is reactivity?
These do not directly impact the behavior in the immediate environment, but they can influence the behavior. (examples include hunger, sleep deprivation, major schedule changes).
What is setting events?
The four basic schedules of reinforcement.
What is fixed interval, fixed ratio, variable interval, and variable ratio?
A way of teaching developed by Lovas, where it is clinician led, and the clinician prompts the learner to engage in a behavior with the delivery of a clear Sd.
What is discrete trial teaching (DTT)?
Variables that you did not know that were occurring during an intervention that have an impact on the behavior or independent variable.
What is confounding variables?
What are the four functions of behavior?
What is Escape, Attention, Tangible, Sensory?
A: Sally wants a three-day weekend
B: Sally doesn’t show up for work
C: PTO is taken away. In the future, Sally does not call out from work. What has occurred here?
What is negative punishment?
PRT focuses on four pivotal areas of child development. They are ________, _______, _________, __________.
What is motivation, Initiation, Responding to multiple cues, and self management?