Principles of ABA
Presenting a negative consequence after an undesired behavior is exhibited making the behavior less likely to happen again in the future
Positive punishment
Breaking a skill into smaller teachable steps.
What is task analysis?
A clear, understandable description of what's to be observed and measured, such that different people taking or interpreting data will do so consistently
A client begins screaming 10 seconds after a demand is placed. This 10-second measure is called this.
What is latency?
Reinforcing hand-raising while reducing yelling out is an example of this.
What is DRA?
If a certain party performs certain behavior, then certain consequences may follow
Contingency
Teaching one step at a time from first to last.
What is forward chaining?
Help to discover the reasons behind a behavior, so you can then decide on a plan for how to change it
Functional behavior assessment (FBA)
Recording whether a behavior occurs at the end of an interval.
What is momentary time sampling?
Reinforcement is provided when a behavior does not occur for a specified time.
What is DRO?
Increases the current effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as reinforcement
Establishing operation
Teaching in the natural environment using learner motivation is called this.
What is Natural Environment Teaching (NET)?
Brittany begins to engage in self-injurious behavior (tapping face). Brittany's teacher would send her to the reading area for time out
Escape function
Answer: Agreement between two observers collecting the same data.
What is interobserver agreement (IOA)?
Blocking a client from engaging in unsafe self-injury is this procedure.
What is response blocking?
When a certain desired stimulus/item is removed after a particular undesired behavior is exhibited, resulting in the behavior happening less often in the future
Negative punishment
Target behavior continues to occur in relevant situations after trainings
Maintenance
Students prefer being punished, admonished, or criticized to being ignored
Attention function
A therapist records if out-of-seat behavior happened at any point during each 30-second interval.
What is partial interval recording?
Reinforcement is provided when a behavior does not occur for a specified time.
What is DRO?
A cue that signals reinforcement is available if the subject makes a particular response
Discriminative stimulus
Least-to-most prompting is often used when the learner has this skill level.
What is some independent responding/mastery?
Behavior decreases when attention is withheld, suggesting this maintaining variable.
What is social positive reinforcement?
This discontinuous measurement tends to underestimate behavior occurrence.
What is whole interval recording?
Teaching “help please” to replace aggression maintained by escape is an example of this.
What is Functional Communication Training (FCT)?