ABA Definitions
The behavior we are measuring or interested in increasing or decreasing.
What is target behavior?
Using socially significant techniques to improve the learners life.
What is Applied?
A stimulus change that happens prior to the behavior.
What is antecedent?
Clinician holds out a picture of a dog and the learner says "dog."
What is tact?
The process of presenting two stimuli at the same time repeatedly until either stimulus elicits the response regardless of whether both or one is present.
What is stimulus-stimulus pairing?
This must be measurable and observable.
What is Behavior / Behavioral?
A stimulus change that follows the behavior of interest.
What is consequence?
The learner responds to another person's question (i.e. When is your birthday?)
What is intraverbal?
The idea that we can see higher rates of behavior by asking someone to complete simple, easy to do tasks, before asking a learner to complete a more complex or less preferred task.
What is behavioral Momentum?
Procedures should be well written, clear, and concise using behavior analytic terms.
What is technological?
The ABA contingency description for Stimulus, Response, Reinforcement.
What is antecedent, behavior, consequence?
Clinician says, "cup." The learner says "cup."
What is echoic?
A measure of how reliably a treatment is being delivered as it was designed/written. (AKA treatment integrity)
What is procedural integrity?
All interventions should be developed using research based techniques.
The four functions of behavior.
What is Escape, Attention, Tangible/Access, Sensory?
Reading or a writing response to a verbal stimulus.
What is textual?
A behavior, when performed, opens the learner up to a whole new world of contingencies for reinforcement and punishment they didn't have access to before they engaged in the behavior.
What is behavioral cusp?
Interventions should improve behavior in a functional method.
What is effective?
Sometimes referred to as the "fourth contingency" and often influences the behavior of the learner.
What is setting event?
Basic units of language that allows others to communicate with others.
What is verbal operants?