FUNCTIONS & FML
This function explains why a kid throws their work when math appears.
What is escape?
Reinforcement delivered after every response is basically rookie season training camp.
What is continuous reinforcement (FR1)?
Marlin’s anxiety-driven micromanaging decreases only when he’s forced to let Nemo explore.
What is exposure with response prevention?
Bluey learns social skills best through play in real-life situations.
What is Natural Environment Teaching (NET)?
This graph trend makes supervisors say “add reinforcement” immediately.
What is decreasing behavior?
A client screams, staff rush in, comfort ensues. The function is not chaos—it’s this.
What is attention?
Reinforcement after a set number of responses—like every 10 free throws.
What is fixed ratio?
Rocky doesn’t start with a championship fight—he builds endurance step by step.
What is shaping?
Michael Scott continues inappropriate jokes because people laugh (sometimes uncomfortably).
What is positive reinforcement?
Changing only one variable at a time so you don’t fail the exam.
What is experimental control?
When behavior produces internal sensory consequences and no one else needs to exist.
What is automatic reinforcement?
Reinforcement after an unpredictable number of responses—aka gambling… or football bonuses.
What is variable ratio?
The dinosaurs keep escaping because the environment keeps reinforcing it.
What is faulty stimulus control?
Ross yells “WE WERE ON A BREAK!” repeatedly because it still gets a reaction.
What is attention extinction failure?
A plan that sounds ethical but ignores function will absolutely do this.
What is increase problem behavior?
A behavior that continues because it gets both attention and escape is maintained by…
What is multiple control?
A coach yelling from the sidelines to guide the play is equivalent to this ABA strategy.
What is prompting?
Regina’s behavior escalates because attention keeps coming… even negative attention.
What is attention-maintained behavior?
Contestants change behavior when reinforcement rules are unclear or inconsistent.
What is a variable schedule of reinforcement?
The BACB expects this before implementing a punishment procedure.
What is reinforcement-based interventions first?
When you swear it’s escape, data says attention, and the parent says “he’s just tired.”
What is indirect assessment unreliability?
When performance collapses the moment reinforcement stops—aka postseason disappointment.
What is extinction burst?
Katniss volunteers because it removes her sister from danger.
What is negative reinforcement?
Risky decisions continue because they occasionally save a patient dramatically.
What is intermittent reinforcement?
When the correct answer is technically right, but not most correct, the exam wants THIS.
What is best practice?