Decode the Acronym
In behavior intervention plans, "Sd" stands for this.
What is a Discriminative Stimulus?
B.F. Skinner defined this verbal operant as a request for something the speaker wants or needs, which is under the control of a motivating operation.
What is a mand?
This teaching method breaks down a complex skill into smaller, teachable steps, which are then taught systematically using forward, backward, or total-task methods.
What is task analysis (or chaining)?
This data collection method involves recording the exact number of times a specific behavior occurs during an observation period.
What is frequency (or count)?
This type of reinforcement occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the removal or decrease of a stimulus, which increases the future frequency of that behavior.
What is negative reinforcement?
This acronym stands for the formal, written document developed by a supervisor that outlines the specific proactive and reactive strategies a BHP must follow to manage a client's challenging behaviors.
What is a BIP (Behavior Intervention Plan) or PBSP (positive behavior support plan)?
This verbal operant is a label or comment about the environment, evoked by a nonverbal discriminative stimulus.
What is a tact?
This strategy involves reinforcing successive approximations of a desired target behavior to teach a completely new skill.
What is shaping?
This descriptive assessment method involves recording the specific events that happen immediately before, during, and after a target behavior.
What is ABC data collection?
This basic principle of behavior is in effect when a previously reinforced behavior is no longer reinforced, leading to a gradual decrease in that behavior.
What is extinction?
This 3-letter acronym represents a differential reinforcement procedure where reinforcement is delivered if the target behavior does not occur at all during a specific time interval.
What is DRO (Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior)?
This verbal operant occurs when a speaker repeats exactly what they hear another speaker say (vocal imitation).
What is an echoic?
This highly structured teaching technique utilizes a clear antecedent (Sd), a client response, and an immediate consequence, usually repeated in rapid succession.
What is Discrete Trial Training (DTT)?
This discontinuous measurement procedure scores an interval as an occurrence if the behavior happens at any point during that specific interval.
What is partial-interval recording?
In a trauma-informed ABA approach, we look at how a client's past learning history changes the value of current reinforcers and aversive stimuli, which means trauma acts as this type of environmental variable.
What is a Motivating Operation (MO) (or Establishing Operation)?
This acronym refers to a proactive strategy used to teach an alternative, functionally equivalent communication skill to replace a problem behavior.
What is FCT (Functional Communication Training)?
This verbal operant involves responding to the verbal stimuli of others without point-to-point correspondence, such as answering a question or filling in the blank.
What is an intraverbal?
This intervention reduces a problem behavior by withholding reinforcement for it, while providing reinforcement for a structurally different behavior that serves the exact same function.
What is DRA (Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior)?
This is the amount of time that elapses between the onset of a stimulus (like an instruction) and the initiation of the response.
What is latency?
This is the temporary increase in the frequency, intensity, or duration of a behavior when an extinction procedure is first implemented.
What is an extinction burst?
This 3-letter acronym refers to a proactive strategy where a client is given access to a known reinforcer on a fixed or variable time schedule, completely independent of their behavior, to reduce the motivation for problem behavior.
What is NCR (Non-Contingent Reinforcement)?
This is the term for the environmental variable that alters the effectiveness of a stimulus as a reinforcer and alters the current frequency of all behavior reinforced by that stimulus.
What is a Motivating Operation (MO)?
This type of error-reduction strategy involves providing a prompt immediately following the instruction so the learner does not have the opportunity to make a mistake.
What is errorless learning?
This measurement method involves measuring the durable, physical outcome or product that a behavior leaves behind on the environment (e.g., number of papers thrown or worksheets completed).
What is permanent product recording?
When a client is in a state of high emotional escalation due to a trauma trigger, a BHP should avoid using demand placement because the client is experiencing a temporary decrease in this type of behavior repertoire.
What is coping/compliance repertoire (or emotional regulation)?