Foundations of ABA
The application of the principles and procedures of behaviorism to understand and change behavior in real-world settings, with the goal of improving the quality of life for the individual and those around them
What is ABA?
The Acronym for the 7 dimensions of ABA
Escape and Avoidance
What are the 2 types of Negative Reinforcement?
Echoic, Mand, Intraverbal, Tact, Textual, Transcription
What are Skinner's 6 types elementary verbal operant
Emit, evoke, voluntary, conditioned response, adaptation
What is associated with operant behavior?
Description, Prediction and Control
What are the 3 levels of scientific understanding?
Behavior Analyst’s must focus on these implementation principles of ABA to change socially significant behaviors. The particular treatment goals decided upon as a prioritizing focus is based on its importance to the individual, and individuals family
What is Applied?
ROSER
This Verbal operent is only controlled by MOs and not SDs
What is a mand?
Something in the environment that elicited an involuntary response
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
Determinism, Empiricism, Experimentation (AKA Experimental Analysis), Replication, Parsimony, Philosophical Doubt,
What are the 6 attitudes of science/ philosophical assumption of behavior?
Establishes a "functional relation" ABA uses data collection and analysis to inform decision-making and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.
What is Analytic?
Room time-out, Partitioned time-out, Hallway time-out
What are the 3 types of Exclusionary time-out?
This verbal operant is controlled by nonverbal SDs
What is a tact?
Elicited, involuntary, reflex
What is associated with respondent behavior?
This assumption states that the simplest explanation for a phenomenon is the best explanation. ABA practitioners strive to use the simplest and most efficient interventions possible, while still being effective.
Parsimony
Important questions to ask are: “Is the intervention working? “Am I seeing the data going in the desired direction?”
What is Effective?
VR, FR, VI, FI
What are the 4 basic schedules of reinforcement?
When the original stimilus and the novel stimilus looks the same from beginning to end and produces the same effect in the environment
What is point to point correspondence and functional similarity
A specific behavior or action that an organism engages in.
Conceptual Analysis of Behavior, ABA, Bhevaior Service Delivery, Experimental Analysis of Behavior
What are the 4 Branches of Behavior Analysis
Ensuring that interventions are based on ABA principles such as Reinforcement, Shaping and Chaining
What is Conceptually systematic?
Removing an aversive stimuli to change the behavior to occur again in the future
What is negative reinforcement?
Solistic Extension, Metaphorical extension, Metonymical extension
What are the 4 types of tact extensions
If a dead man can do it, it's not behavior.
What is the "dead man's test"