Measurement Concept
You will use this measuring type to find out how many times a student raises their hand
What is Frequency?
Aims to identify an individual's favorite things so that they can be used as rewards or potential "reinforcers" of appropriate and desired behavior.
What is a preference assessment?
occurs when a reinforcer is presented regardless of whether the target behavior is demonstrated or not.
What is NET?
A Lion is given food for walking up to the cage bars when called
What is Positive Reinforcement
Occurs before the behavior
What is an antecedent?
A recording strategy that involves observing whether a behavior occurs or does not occur throughout the ENTIRE specified interval of time.
What is Whole interval?
Observing the individual in an environment where they have access to several different items or activities
What is free operant
Withhold reinforcement for challenging
behavior and provide reinforcement for any other behavior in a specified time period. *Individual replaces behavior with appropriate behavior on their own*
What is DRO?
you put a dollar into the Coke machine and get a Coke
What is positive reinforcement
Escape, attention, tangible, sensory
What are the functions of behavior?
Measurement of behavior recorded precisely at the end of the interval. Did behavior happen at that moment or not?
What is momentary time sample?
data on behavior issues. This includes identifying the antecedents (what comes right before the before), identifying the target behavior, and identifying the consequences (what comes right after the before).
What is ABC data?
Removing a loud noise when a student puts on their headphones
What is negative reinforcement?
Your favorite ice cream spot offers punch cards where you can earn a free scoop of ice cream. Each purchase earns you one punch on the punch card. Once you receive 5 punches on your card, you get your next scoop free!
What is fixed ratio?
your allowance is reduced for getting bad grades
What is negative punishment
Ratio of count per observation time.
Kate’s mom frequently alters the length of sessions. To adjust for this, when graphing her target behavior, you calculate the occurrences divided by time, converting the data to this continuous measurement.
What is rate?
An RBT is sometimes asked to graph data. Here is a sample graph (see drawing from Mrs. AJ). The y-axis displays the behavior being graphed. This what the x-axis displays.
What is time or dates?
While playing with legos in the play room, they build a lego tower and the RBT asks Shay to label the color of some of the legos
What is NET?
Reinforcement is delivered, on average, every 2 minutes following the first response after the time is up.
What is VI2
After you are seated at a restaurant you order a drink. You finish that drink and order another one 10 minutes later. The time between ordering your first and second drink is called
What is IRT?
Allows you to track/record the outcome of the desired behavior; something concrete that CAN BE SEEN.
What is Permanent-product recording?
Jack will stim on the calendar numbers, so Ms. Jenny has him sit with his back to the calendar so that he will not visually stim on the numbers. This an example of behavior intervention _____ - based intervention
What is antecedent?
Samantha can mark on paper with a crayon and a marker. You give her a paintbrush and she does not know what to do. She is struggling with learning to mark on paper with a paintbrush due to a lack of ______ of skills.
What is generalization?
occurs when a reinforcer is presented regardless of whether the target behavior is demonstrated or not.
What is non contingent reinforcement?
When a behavior is followed by the addition of a stimulus that decreases the future frequency of that behavior, this is known as
What is positive punishment?