ABA Terminology
If you give a client a sticker for sharing, and they share more often, the sticker acts as this.
What is Reinforcement?
This highly structured teaching method breaks skills into small steps and uses repetition.
What is DTT (Discrete Trial Training)?
How long it takes for someone to start following an instruction after you give the instruction is called ____.
What is Latency.
This term describes the process of objectively measuring a client’s behavior and progress.
What is data collection?
Before starting a DTT trial, you should prepare these items so the session flows smoothly (e.g., tokens, stimuli, reinforcers).
What are materials and reinforcers?
A common ABA procedure where a token, like a coin or a sticker, is given immediately after a desired behavior and can be exchanged later for a larger reward. What is it?
What is Token Economy
In DTT, this is the instruction or cue that signals the client to respond.
What is the SD (Discriminative Stimulus)?
When you write down every time a behavior happens, you are collecting what kind of data?
What is Frequency.
This type of data measures how many times a behavior occurs and is used for behaviors with a clear beginning and end.
What is frequency/event recording?
During the inter-trial interval, you should always do this in addition to preparing the next trial.
What is record data?
Teaching a complex skill like tying shoes, breaking each step down is called a _______.
What is a task analysis?
This step must occur immediately after the SD if needed and helps ensure a correct response.
What is the prompt?
If a behavior happens so quickly that it is hard to count every single time, we might measure how long it lasts. What is this called?
What is duration
This data method measures the time between the instruction and when the client begins the response.
What is latency?
This type of data is best for behaviors like tantrums or time sitting in a seat.
What is duration recording?
A child learns to share toys at school, and then starts sharing toys at home without being taught to do so at home. This is an example of ______.
What is generalization?
This teaching method is flexible, uses client motivation, and occurs naturally during play or daily routines.
What is NET (Natural Environment Teaching)?
Gradually reducing the amount of help or prompts you give a client as they new a new skills is called prompt _____.
What is fading.
This interval system marks the behavior only if it occurs for the entire interval, which can underestimate behavior.
What is whole interval recording?
This interval method records a behavior if it occurred even for 1 second, often overestimating behavior.
What is partial interval recording?
What is the term for a specific instruction that tells the client it’s time to perform a certain behavior?
What is SD.
Name all five components of the DTT teaching cycle in order.
What are: SD → Prompt → Response → Consequence → Inter-Trial Interval?
When you say “Touch the car” and the client points to the picture of the car, they are demonstrating this type of skill.
Receptive Identification
This sampling method records whether the behavior is occurring exactly at the end of the interval.
What is momentary time sampling?
This principle states that decisions should never be based on feelings or hunches, but instead on behavioral measurement.
What is data-driven decision making?