Terms
Consequences
Strategies
Scenarios
Old Bridge Facts
100

Attention, Escape/Avoidance, Access to tangibles, Automatic reinforcement

What are the four functions of behavior?

100

Something that is added after a behavior occurs that increases the future frequency of that behavior.

What is positive reinforcement?

100

Deliberate inattention to the occurrence of a target behavior.

What is planned ignoring?

100

You're working on discrete trial teaching with a student. She begins hitting herself in the head you tell her to stop every time she hits her head. She stops for 30-seconds and then hits herself again.

What is attention?

100

The number of elementary schools in Old Bridge.

What is 11?

200

When an individual engages in a behavior that provides access or awareness to/from people or interactions. It can be both positive and negative.

What is attention?

200

When a response is followed immediately by something that decreases the future frequency of a behavior.

What is punishment?

200

Reduction technique used to distract the student from a problem behavior or lead them to engage in a more appropriate behavior than the one they are currently engaging in.

What is redirection?

200

You walk into the classroom after bus duty to find a student rolling on the floor screaming and yelling. The other assistant in the room tells you that she walked in and ran for a puzzle but she reminded her that she needed to take her coat off and she bit her and started screaming.

What is denied access to tangible?

200

The name of the football field.

What is Lombardi?

300

When an individual engages in behaviors that removes undesired activities, situations, or interactions.

What is escape?

300

When a behavior is followed immediately by the reduction or removal of something that increases the future frequency of the behavior.

What is negative reinforcement?

300

Physically preventing a maladaptive behavior from occurring. 

What is response blocking?

300

You are outside on the playground with your class. You notice that one of your students is standing alone on the playground jumping up and down and laughing.

What is automatic reinforcement?

300

Mr. Cittadino's dog.

Who is Daisy?

400

An individual may be engaging in a behavior in order to access an item or activity.

What is access to tangible?

400

When a previously reinforced response is discontinued, so that behavior decreases in the future.

What is extinction?

400

The process of teaching meaningful and functional communication in a natural way to students with developmental disabilities.

What is functional communication training?

400

Prior to being given an assessment a student begins to start crying and appears very withdrawn. The OT insists that he needs calming strategies and removes him from the environment to have a sensory break on the swing.

What is escape?

400

Major highways that run through Old Bridge.

What is Garden State Parkway, Route 9, Route 18, Route 34, Route 35, Route 516?

500

The individual engages in a behavior that gives him/herself some type of internal sensation that is pleasing or removes an internal sensation that is aversive. 

What is automatic reinforcement?

500

These two consequences decrease the likelihood of future behavior.

What is punishment and extinction?

500

A student is engaging in tantrum behavior when he doesn't get the preferred toy. He will grab at other students and staff. The student appears frustrated. These are the strategies that would be used.

What is functional communication training and response blocking?

500

You are sitting at circle time with a student. The student asks you for a certain video. You tell the student we aren't watching that video right now. He punches you straight in the nose and you scream "OW". The student starts laughing and attempts to punch your nose again.

What is escape and attention?

500

Township Attractions/Parks in Old Bridge.

What is Old Bridge Raceway Park, Cheesecake State Park, Ice Arena, Gecko Park, Veteran's Park, Laurence Harbor Beachfront and Mannino Park?