ABA
Terms
Reinforcement/Punishment
Functions of
Behavior
ABA Misc.
Misc.
100

Labeling an item

What is tacting? 
100

This will increase the target behavior.

What is reinforcement? 

100

Child falls to the floor and begins crying every time they are asked to complete a task. 

What is escape? 

100

Counting each instance of a behavior. 

What is frequency?

100

This person painted the Mona Lisa  

Who is Leonardo da Vinci?

200

Requesting an item  or activity

What is manding?

200

This will decrease the target behavior. 

What is punishment? 

200

The child attempts to look at you while in behavior, engages in repetitive sayings to others or engages in other behaviors in attempts to gain this. 

What is attention? 

200

How long a behavior occurs.

What is duration?

200

Thomas Edison's most famous invention. 

What is the lightbulb?  

300

Teaching a skill by breaking it down into smaller steps. 

What is chaining? 
300

Having too much of an item/not wanting more. 

What is satiation? 

300

The child engages in repetitive touching of different body parts, hand flapping or repeats vocal words/sounds. 

What is self-stim? 

300

What happens immediately before a behavior. 

What is an antecedent? 

300

The first Pixar movie produced. 

What is Toy Story? (1995)

400

Teaching a skill as it would naturally occur in the world. 

What is natural environment teaching (NET)?

400

Not having enough of an item/wanting more. 

What is deprivation? 

400

The child attempts to grab an item from peer or engages in maladaptive behaviors when item is removed. 

What is tangible? 

400

What happens immediately after a behavior. 

What is a consequence. 

400

The world's longest river. 

What is the Amazon River?

500

A child learning a skill that is not directly taught to them. 

What is incidental teaching? 

500

Providing reinforcement without requiring the child to do something first. 

What is non-contingent reinforcement? 

500

When one behavior can have multiple functions. 

What is multiply maintained? 

500

Setting up the environment to prevent a behavior. 

What is an antecedent intervention? 

500

The number of bones in the human body. 

What is 206?

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