Easy as A-B-C.
Measurable and observable action emitted by a living thing.
What is Behavior?
A verbal behavior that is used to get access to a desired item or activity.
What is a Mand
A preferred stimulus that makes a behavior occur more often in the future.
What is a Reinforcer?
The four primary functions of behavior.
What are sensory/automatic, escape. attention, and tangible?
A simple tally or count of how many times a behavior occurs.
What is frequency?
The events that come after a behavior.
What is a Consequence?
A verbal behavior that identifies something in the environment by name.
What is a Tact?
The addition of a stimulus to the environment that increases or maintains the occurrence of the behavior.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
This function involves escaping a demand, chore, or unpleasant situation.
What is escape?
This continuous measurement tracks how long a behavior lasts from start to finish.
What is duration?
The event that comes before a behavior.
What is Antecedent?
A verbal behavior where the learner repeats the words or sounds of the instructor.
What is an Echoic?
The removal of a stimulus that increases or maintains the behavior.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
Screaming that results in dad hanging up the phone and attending to his child is an example of this function.
What is Attention?
The amount of time that passes between an antecedent/ prompt and the start of the behavior.
What is latency?
The three-term contingency is often used in ABA to identify this underlying "reason" or purpose that a behavior serves for an individual.
What is the function of behavior?
Verbal behavior where an individual answers questions, fills in blanks, or has a back-and-forth conversation.
What is intraverbal?
The process of no longer providing reinforcement for problem behaviors through a behavior intervention is called.
What is Extinction?
Scratching a bug bite or rocking back and forth typically falls under this function.
What is Sensory/Automatic?
A discontinuous measurement where the behavior must occur during the entire timed interval to be counted.
What is Whole Interval Recording?
An additional term that can be added to the traditional 3 term contingency to create a four term contingency.
What is MO (motivating Operation)?
A verbal behavior where an individual speaks written words when presented with text.
What is Textual?
The initial instruction that is delivered that signals to the learner that reinforcement is available to be earned.
what is a Discriminative Stimulus or Sd.
FCT is an antecedent strategy often used to teach a replacement behavior for problematic behaviors. This is what the acronym FCT stands for.
What is functional communication training?
This phenomenon occurs when an individual changes their behavior simply because they know they are being observed.
What is reactivity?