Functions of Behavior
Your client is walking with you in the hall and elopes into a peers room where they are playing with bubbles. Your client immediately begins playing with the bubbles.
Tangible
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible behavior (DRI)
Ariele sees a toy on a shelf she can't reach, she points to it and says "truck". You hand it to her and she begins playing with it
Mand
Your BCBA is texting during a consult with you. You want them to stop this, so you take their phone and throw it in the lake. Your BCBA never pulls their phone out in a consult again.
Negative Punishment
You look at your client and say "where are your arms?"
This is what type of verbal operant?
Listener responding
You sit at the therapy table with your client and instruct them to touch their nose. They do not and instead hit you and fall to the floor.
Escape
Your client is in the bathroom, flopped to the ground and crying with tears. You tell them they can ask to be "all done". They say "all done" and you both leave the bathroom.
Differential Reinforcement of Alternative behavior (DRA)
You say "do this" while clapping your hands, your client then begins clapping their hands
Motor imitation
Your client says "tickles" and so you tickle them. After a brief pause, the client says "tickles" again and you give them more tickles.
Positive Reinforcement
What does SD stand for?
Discriminative Stimulus
Your client is spitting on the floor while you write your session note. With a sigh, you tell them to spit in the trash can. They ignore you and continue to spit on the floor.
Sensory
You set a timer for 5 minutes during circle time. If in that 5 minutes your client, Linsey, does not engage in physical aggression, she get skittles. During circle time Linsey flops to the floor, rolls on the ground, and stares out the window. She does not participate. You give Linsey skittles at the end of the 5 minutes. Did you do the right thing? What procedure was used?
Yes, no PA occurred. Differential Reinforcement of Other behavior (DRO)
You are running in the gym with your client and you say "Ready, set,__" Your client then says "go!" and you both take off running.
What TWO verbal operants could this be?
mand, intraverbal
Haley hates clowns. While in the BCBA office Haley is chewing loudly so Olivia shows Haley pictures of clowns. Haley hates this and no longer chews loudly.
What is this for HALEY'S behavior?
Positive Punishment
How long was Haley a RBT before becoming a BCBA?
3.5 years
While in the therapy room your client is playing with playdough and you are writing your session note. Your client then picks up the playdough, looks at you, laughs, and then licks it. You instruct them to use their chewy and model ways to play with playdough and the behavior stops. You go back to writing your session note. The client laughs, looks to you, and licks the playdough again.
Attention
Your client, Olivia, does not raise her hand in class often. In order to increase this behavior you give Olivia a sticker every time she raises her hand. Soon, Olivia raises her hand twice during class. You move up the criteria to Olivia needing to raise her hand 3 times during class before she receives a sticker.
Differential Reinforcement of High Rates (DRH)
Your client has a picture of a tree and a picture of a cat on their table. You hand the client another picture of a tree and ask them to "match it". They put their picture on top of the tree on the table.
Visual Perceptual Match to Sample (VPMTS)
Haley hates clowns. While in the BCBA office Haley is chewing loudly so Olivia shows Haley pictures of clowns. Haley hates this and no longer chews loudly.
What is this for OLIVIA'S behavior?
Negative Reinforcement
If I stop reinforcing my client for crying and they begin to cry a lot more afterwards, my client is experiencing what?
An extinction Burst
Tavanah, a RBT, is playing with her client Kelly. Another RBT, Alli, and her client Coty are playing nearby. Kelly walks over to Coty and pushes her down which causes both RBTs to turn to Kelly and tell her that it isn't nice to push friends. Kelly laughs and hits Tavanah and Alli. What was accidentally reinforced, and what should have happened?
PA was reinforced with attention from Alli and Tavanah.
Only Kelly's RBT should have intervened.
REPLACEMENT BEHAVIORS
When you and your client are in the bathroom, they always flush the toilet 10 times. You want this behavior to decrease but still remain in their repertoire. You start by giving them a sticker if they flush the toilet only 8 times or less. Then only 5, 4,3,2, until they flush it only once.
Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of behavior (DRL)
Your client is looking at a marker sitting on the table. They say "Marker!" excitedly and so you hand them paper and the marker so that they can draw. Your client walks away and stares out the window
Tact
Your client says "book" for the first time while looking at a book. In your excitement you exclaim "OH MY GOSH THAT WAS SO COOL! LOOK AT YOU GO!" Your client cringes away from you and never says book again.
Positive Punishment
Multiple Stimulus with replacement