History of ABA
This famous experiment by John B. Watson demonstrated the principles of classical conditioning using a child and a white rat.
What is the Little Albert Experiment?
This is the year that Blue Hearts started providing ABA services to client.
What is 2021?
This reinforcement strategy involves only providing access to the reinforcer when an appropriate behavior occurs, while withholding the reinforcers of inappropriate behavior.
What is Differential Reinforcement?
This is the process of identifying the specific function of a behavior through data collection and observation.
What is Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)?
The process of adding something to increase a behaviors.
This principle, described by B.F. Skinner, explains how consequences shape future behavior.
What is Operant Conditioning?
This location was our first staff team bonding.
What is Main Event?
This is a strategy used to teach an alternative way to meet the same function as a challenging behavior.
What is Functional Communication Training (FCT)?
A client throws their toys whenever asked to clean up. This is the most likely function of this behavior.
What is Escape?
The term for removing a stimulus to decrease a behavior.
What is Negative Punishment?
This behavioral approach, developed in the 1970s, focuses on changing socially significant behaviors in real-work settings.
What is ABA?
This location was the first family event.
What is Skyzone?
Providing frequent praise and attention to reduce attention-seeking behaviors is an example of this strategy.
What is Non-Contingent Reinforcement (NCR)?
A child repeatedly hums during quiet work time and appears to find it calming. This behavior is maintained by this function.
What is Sensory or Automatic Reinforcement?
A reinforcer that is not naturally reinforcing but is learned through association.
What is a Token or Conditioned reinforcer.
This early ABA treatment, developed by Ole Ivar Lovaas, focused on intensive, one-on-one interventions for young children with autism.
What is Discrete Trial Training (DTT)?
This is the last monthly EVV performance percentage Blue Hearts had.
What is 100%?
This method, often credited to Montrose Wolf, became a widely used technique in ABA therapy for reinforcing positive behaviors using generalized reinforcers.
What is the Token Economy?
To identify a behavior's function, you must analyze these three key components.
What are Antecedent, Behavior, and Consequence (ABC)?
What is Extinction?
This type of experimental design, developed in the 1960s, became a standard in ABA research for evaluating interventions.
What is Single-Subject Design?
This is the city that Jean and Paul were born in.
What is Salem, MA?
This psychologist is considered the father of behaviorism, which laid the groundwork for ABA.
Who is John B. Watson?
This person was accredited with developing the concept of "functions of behavior."
What is B.F. Skinner?
The type of reinforcement schedule where a reinforcer is delivered after a set number of correct responses.
What is Fixed Ratio?