Reinforcement
An event that follows a behavior and increases some dimension of that behavior.
What is reinforcement?
Sam often repeats what he hears.
What is an echoic?
Observing a behavior and recording it as it occurs.
What is direct measurement?
You provide a cue to encourage a desired response.
What is a prompt?
On a graph this represents a unit of time during which data was obtained.
What is the x axis?
You get paid for shoveling the snow, so everytime it snows you shovel.
What is positive reinforcement?
Maria an RBT put away all the toys, edibles and games before she started working with her client.
What is sanitizing the environment?
Alice sometimes kicks the teacher during transitions. The teacher records each time Alice hits her. She is recording [ ] data.
What is frequency?
Jamie is 12 and has trouble answering questions about himself. You are helping him to answer how old he is. You ask how old he is. If he doesn't respond you prompt him be saying say, "Are you 11 or 12?" You are using a [ ] prompt.
What is a verbal prompt?
You are collecting frequency data on Ginny's spitting behavior before you introduce an intervention.
What is baseline data?
Tommy is struggling with his math assignment during class so he starts loudly singing and gets sent to the principles office.
What is negative reinforcement?
The emission of a behavior that is topographically similar and temporally proximal to the behavior of a model.
What is imitation?
The time between an SD and a response.
What is latency?
You place 3 animal cards in front of Lanie, a cow, a pig and a dog. You place the dog slightly in front of the other cards and ask, 'which of this animals barks?'.
What is a positional prompt?
Every time Lydia goes to Target with her mom she has a tantrum and her mom lets her pick out a candy bar. Lydia's mom decides she is no longer going to buy her candy when she throws a tantrum. The next time they go to Target Lydia throws an even bigger tantrum.
What is an extinction burst?
You do not pay your parking tickets and get the boot and your car towed. After you got your car back, you always paid your tickets right away.
What is negative punishment?
Betsy sees an airplane in the sky and says "airplane"
What is tact?
This type of recording is used when you want to increase a target behavior.
What is whole interval recording?
You ask Bobby what animal says Moo and hold up a picture of a cow.
What is a visual prompt?
The process of teaching a behavior by reinforcing successive approximations, while simultaneously extinguishing previous approximations.
What is shaping?
Jenny's behavior plan called for PCM transportation to be used every time she hits one of her classmates. Jenny does not like transportation and eventually stopped hitting her classmates.
What is positive punishment?
This type of verbal behavior provides and immediate benefit to the speaker.
What is a mand?
This type of data is less accurate than whole or partial interval recording.
What is momentary time sampling?
prompt heirarchy
What is positional, gestural, textual, model, vocal, physical?
functions of behavior
What are escape, tangible, social and sensory?