Measurement Concept
Assessment
Skill Acquisition
Reinforcement and Motivation
Other
100

You will use this measuring type to find out how many times a student raises their hand

What is Frequency?

100

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? 

100

occurs when a reinforcer is presented regardless of whether the target behavior is demonstrated or not.


What is NET?

100

A Lion is given food for walking up to the cage bars when called

What is Positive Reinforcement 

100

Occurs before the behavior

What is an antecedent?

200

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?

200

Observing the individual in an environment where they have access to several different items or activities

What is free operant

200

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? 

200

you put a dollar into the Coke machine and get a Coke

What is positive reinforcement 

200

Escape, attention, tangible, sensory

What are the functions of behavior? 

300

Measurement of behavior recorded precisely at the end of the interval. Did behavior happen at that moment or not?

What is momentary time sample?

300

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?

300

Removing a loud noise when a student puts on their headphones 

What is negative reinforcement? 

300

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? 

300

your allowance is reduced for getting bad grades

What is negative punishment 

400

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? 

400

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?

400

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?

400

Reinforcement is delivered, on average, every 2 minutes following the first response after the time is up.

What is VI2

400

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?

500

Allows you to track/record the outcome of the desired behavior; something concrete that CAN BE SEEN.

 What is Permanent-product recording?

500

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?

500

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?

500

occurs when a reinforcer is presented regardless of whether the target behavior is demonstrated or not.


What is non contingent reinforcement? 

500

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?

M
e
n
u