ABA Terms
A little boy is playing with his toys in his room. Holding one of his stuffed animal dolls, he looks at it and says “Zebra!” This is ______ type of verbal behavior.
What is tact?
True or False? The RBT implements the treatment plan by her supervising BCBA no matter what.
What is False?
You are standing in your bedroom closet with your toddler and say, "light on!" and turn the light on. Your toddler than says, "light on!" and you turn the light on again. Your toddler engaged in ________relative to your verbal behavior.
What is Imitation?
Receipts for purchases and reimbursement requests should be submitted to this member of the admin team
Who is Jackie?
This American scientist and author's early invention contributed to the creation of the weighted blanket
Who is Temple Grandin?
You pull up to the drive-thru at the coffee shop. The attendant says, "what can I get you?" You say, "One coffee please." This is ______ type of operant.
What is intraverbal?
A 13-year-old client with mild autism is learning how to use a weed eater so that he can help his dad with the lawn. The 13-year-old client typically picks up skills quickly, but it’s been a month and data indicates that the 13-year-old is still struggling to learn the task chain. These are your next steps.
What is reevaluate your task analysis and attempt a different approach?
Duke plays baseball for his local men’s league team. Today, in honor of one of the sponsors, the whole team is wearing colored wristbands. Duke does not like to wear the wristband while playing in the game because it is unpleasant to him. The wristband functions as a _____.
What is Aversive Stimuli?
Receipts for CPR, CPI, and RBT exams go to this person.
Who is Madison?
Co-occurring mental health diagnoses, effecting the gastrointestinal tract that are often linked to autism.
What are Eating Disorders?
A college professor, before handing out an exam, informs the class that each person can leave class as soon as they finish the exam. This is an example of ______ contingency.
What is Independent Group Contingency?
Your BCBA provides your client’s caregiver with a questionnaire to fill out about the child’s behavior to get more information about what they’re seeing outside of therapy sessions. This type of tool falls under this category of assessments.
What is Indirect Assessment?
You work with a client three hours per day. During those hours, your client consistently engages in verbal stereotypy. Your BCBA wants to implement a differential reinforcement procedure. She instructs you to reinforce the client whenever they are not engaged in verbal stereotypy. This is _______ type of differential reinforcement.
What is Differential Reinforcement Other (DRO)?
If a session is cancelled or rescheduled I need to notify ________ and ________
Who are the admin team and my lead RBT?
The word autism stems from the Greek word "autos" which means "self." Autism translates as this word.
What is "alone?"
Your significant other wakes up earlier than you for work during the week. However, whenever they wake up, they always make too much noise and wake you up as well. If you wanted to implement a differential reinforcement procedure targeting the noise-making behavior, this differential reinforcement procedure would be best.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behaviors (DRI)?
The 5 phrases of assessment.
What are screening, pinpointing the target behaviors, determining function, monitoring progress and follow up?
Systematically and differentially reinforcing successive approximations to a terminal behavior.
What is shaping?
If I need to reconvert a session due to a mistake, I should reach out to these two people on the admin team.
Who are Eve and Jordan?
The cartoon series, cards and smartphone game created by someone with Autism.
What is Pokemon?
Susan grew up in an abusive household. After many years of fighting, she was finally removed from the home and placed in the foster care system. However, Susan still will wait for permission to eat her dinner because that is what her prior household would have her do. This is an example of ________ behavior.
What is Ontogenic?
Gabe loses a bet and has to jump into his friend's pool in below freezing temperatures. As soon as Gabe jumps in, the freezing cold hits him, and he runs to a hot shower. Gabe never jumps in freezing water again. The freezing cold is an example of this.
What is Unconditioned Punisher?
Before Susan, a BCBA, finalizes her treatment plan, she makes sure that she conducts at least 3 direct observations with her client. This most closely adheres to _______ attitude of science.
What is Empiricism?
I have a qualifying life event upcoming and it will impact my benefit coverage. I need to contact this person.
Who is Catie?
This American actor and filmmaker is the father of a son with autism and has used his celebrity status to raise awareness and funding for autism research and advocacy
Who is Robert De Niro?