Measurement
Skill Acquisition
Maladaptives
Key Terms
Ethics
100

This is when you measure how many times a behavior has occurred.

What is Frequency?

100

This method of teaching individual pieces of information is also known as "table time."

What is DTT?

100

Another name for running away.

What is Elopement?

100

The three components of any behavior, abbreviated ABC

What is Antecedent, Behavior, and Consequence?

100

This is the limit of how expensive a gift can be

What is 10 dollars?

200

This is when you need to record how long a behavior lasted.

What is duration?

200

This is a strategy for teaching a behavior in the environment where that behavior is supposed to happen.

What is NET?

200

A blanket description for any action meant to cause harm to another person

What is Aggression?

200

This is when a behavior must no longer lead to reinforcement.

What is Extinction?

200

For something to be data, it must be both of these things.

What is Observable and Measureable?

300

This measures how much time passed between the antecedent and the behavior.

What is Latency?

300

This strategy teaches a single behavior by reinforcing each successive attempt at performing the behavior.

What is Shaping?

300

An abbreviation describing any action the learner does to harm themselves.

What is SIB?

300

This is when we teach a combination of different behaviors that, when done in the correct order, complete a task.

What is Chaining?

300

An unethical state where an ABA practitioner babysits for a client's family on the weekends outside of the clinic.

What is a Dual Relationship?

400

This measures how much time has passed between repetitions of the same behavior.

What is Inter-response Time

400

Sticker charts and money are common examples of this reinforcement strategy.

What is a Token Economy?

400

An RBT might see this right before a maladaptive behavior occurs. 

What is a Precursor Behavior?

400

This differential reinforcement strategy creates situations where the learner must make a hard choice between doing the maladaptive behavior or doing something that would make doing to maladaptive behavior impossible.

What is DRI?

400

This is the reason we bring learners to the bathroom to change their clothes.

What is Client Dignity? 

500

This is a broad category of measurement strategies that can be used when continuous measurement of the behavior is impossible for some reason.

What is Discontinuous Measurement?

500

This abbreviation is what we give to a learner to maintain their motivation or get them interested in an activity without them having to do anything.

What is NCR?

500

This walkie code indicates that body fluids need to be cleaned up the next available staff member.

What is Code Yellow?

500
One of the 7 tenets of ABA that says all instructions must be written in a way that could be understood by any other ABA practitioner. 

What is Technological?

500

This is the minimum amount of supervision an RBT should receive.

What is 5%?

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