Terminology
This is a developmental disability that affects social interaction, behavioral needs, and communication of an individual ranging from mild to severe. It affects an estimated 1 in 54 individuals in the United States.
Autism
Performing a behavior because it feels good (insert James Brown)
Automatic Or Sensory
This is the three term contingency which is also known as our primary unit of analysis in ABA.
Antecedent - Behavior - Consequence
He is the founder of radical behaviorism and the father of Applied Behavior Analysis.
B.F. Skinner
This is defined as a stimulus in the environment that functions as a reinforcer due to past experiences.
Conditioned Reinforcer
A rule about a temporal relation between the environment and behavior. We mostly look at the three-term contingency (ABC) and the four-term contingency (MO/SD, A, B, C).
Contingency
when an individual performs an action to get a response from another person, which can be positive (like praise) or negative (like a reprimand)
Attention
A stimulus change that happens prior to the behavior
Antecedent
These three individuals wrote what ABA practitioners often refer to as.. “The ABA bible”
Cooper, Heron, and Heward
This is a type of reinforcement that does not require someone else to deliver it to you. Your own behavior produces reinforcement. You can get what you want without anyone's help! #Queen
Automatic Reinforcement
Reinforcing one response class and withholding reinforcement for all other responses that are not part of that response class.
Differential Reinforcement
an individual performs an action to gain something they desire, such as an item, activity, or privilege
Access
We often call this a “_______ of interest”.
Behavior
he is the founder of methodological behaviorism. He focused on the Stimulus-Response and did not take private events into account when looking at behavior.
John B. Watson
A type of compound schedule of reinforcement that includes the combination of two or more basic schedules of reinforcement (FI,FR,VI,VR) for two or more behaviors and the schedules are occurring at the same time.
Concurrent Schedule of Reinforcement
An assessment that is designed to determine the hypothetical function of the problem behavior. Includes indirect assessments (interviews checklist) and direct assessments (observations and test).
Functional Behavior Assessment
or
FBA
The four functions of behavior include…
attention
sensory
escape
access
Something that happens as a result of something else. A stimulus change that follows the behavior of interest.
consequence
His work laid the groundwork for behaviorism, the study of observable behaviors, and conditioning. Some key concepts of his experiments included dogs, salivation, and a bell
Pavlov
you take away something that someone likes to decrease the future frequency of a behavior.
Negative Punishment
Together, they ensure that interventions focus on socially significant behaviors, are based on observable and measurable data, and result in meaningful, lasting change across different settings. List the seven dimensions of ABA.
Applied, Behavioral, Analytic, Technological, Conceptually Systematic, Effective, and Generality.
when an individual engages in a specific action to avoid, delay, or end an unpleasant or aversive task, situation, or demand
Escape
This is the primary unit of analysis in behavior analysis. This includes the antecedent, behavior, and the consequence. This is also known as the S-R-S (Stimulus-Response-Stimulus).
Three term contingency
He was most well known for his research on what is now called applied behavior analysis to modify the behavior of autistic children through prompts, modeling, and positive reinforcement. Many places use this method today.
Lovaas
or
Dr. Ivar Lovaas
One of the main principles of ABA. This is a consequence following a response that immediately proceeds it. This concept has occurred when the future frequency of the behavior decreases or is eliminated.
Punishment