Functions of behavior
Your client calls out during circle time and makes direct eye contact with you while laughing
What is attention?
You set a timer for your client before you change rooms
What is priming?
You are playing blocks in the classroom, and you narrate what you are doing to the client.
What is NET?
Your client asks for the ball you are holding
What is a mand?
Frequency
What is continuous?
Your client is crying due to an object slightly out of reach
What is access to tangible?
First, we go to the classroom, then we go outside
What is Premack?
You are sitting in the back of the classroom and ask your client to match a set of cards, and then run motor imitation.
What is DTT?
You ask your client what color the block is. They say "blue"
what is tact?
Inter-response time (IRT)
continuous
The client tears up their paper when it is time to do math work
What is escape/avoidance
You show your client a schedule with pictures and tell them they have 3 minutes until transition
What is using a visual and priming?
Your client is having a hard time expressing that they are upset and engages in hitting. You have them touch I need a break on their AAC.
What is functional communication training?
You say "the wheels on the" your client says "bus"
Whole interval recording
discontinuous
The client screams in class and is sent to the principal. The client gets a lollipop and is sent back to class.
What is escape/access to tangible?
You go to the hallway and close all the doors before you go to the classroom.
What is an environment arrangement?
Your client needs to wash their hands, you have them turn on the water independently then help them through the rest of the steps
What is forward chaining?
You want your client to complete a LR: clap hands goal. What is your SD?
What is "clap hands"?
You are tracking the time from instruction to behavior
Your client is engaging in SIB, head-banging, and screaming. They seem to have an increase in screaming and head-banging when you speak to them.
What is sensory and attention?
Your client is in DTT; they provide a wrong answer. You prompt the correct response, run a distractor trial and then ask the same question without leaving room for error.
What is error correction?
You want your client to complete a motor imitation for stomp feet. What is your SD?
What is "do this" or "copy me"?
You look up at the end of a specified time interval to see whether the target behavior is occurring or not.
Discontinuous / Momentary time sampling