ABA 101
An RBT want to set up the session before the client arrives to reduce any chances of problem behavior. Identify what the therapist needs to implement.
What are antecedent interventions?
This type of prompt is when a play partner points or makes an action to indicate the next step of a task/direction.
What is a Gestural Prompt?
A therapist observes and records how many times a student engages in self biting, what type of measurement is used?
What is Frequency?
A consequence that increases the likelihood that a behavior will occur again.
What is Reinforcement?
You show up to work on time every day for 3 months, your boss gives you a bonus.
Reinforcement or Punishment?
Positive or Negative?
What is Positive Reinforcement?
An alternative behavior taught because it helps achieve the same functional outcome as another less desirable behavior
What is a replacement behavior?
This strategy involves adding a preferred activity after a less preferred task.
What is Premack Principle (First-Then)?
RBT guides the child's arm at the elbow to choose the correct object. This is an example of what type of prompt?
What is Partial Physical?
A therapist tells the student to sit down. The therapist then records the time of the onset of the behavior until the student leaves their seat. What measurement procedure is being used?
What is Duration?
Any consequence that decreases the likelihood a behavior will happen again.
What is Punishment?
I was speeding down the road and I was pulled over and received a traffic ticket for speeding.
Reinforcement or Punishment?
Positive or Negative?
What is Positive Punishment?
An increase in the frequency of responding when a behavior with a history of reinforcement is no longer being reinforced.
What is extinction burst?
Early and immediate prompting of the target response so that the client's response is sure to be correct
What is errorless learning?
A first-then board or picture schedule can be used as this type of prompting.
What is a Visual Prompt?
A type of discontinuous measurement that records that the behavior occurred during an interval if it happens at any point during the interval. This measurement overestimates the behavior.
What is Partial Interval Recording?
The ADDITION of a pleasant stimulus following a behavior that is responsible for INCREASING that behavior in the future.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
I received an A on my Math Test, my mom removed 3 chores from my list.
Reinforcement or Punishment?
Positive or Negative?
What is Negative Reinforcement?
The process of breaking a complex skill or series of behaviors into small, teachable units.
What is task analysis?
Reinforcement system where conditioned reinforcers are earned for target responses to be exchanged for a preferred reinforcer
What is a token economy?
What happens to a student when they are over-prompted
What is Prompt Dependency?
A measure of how many times a behavior occurs during a specific time frame
What is Rate?
The REMOVAL of a pleasant stimulus following a behavior that subsequently DECREASES that behavior
What is Negative Punishment?
I paid a $500 dollar fine for my speeding ticket.
Reinforcement or Punishment?
Positive or Negative?
What is Negative Punishment?
The degree to which two or more independent observers report the same observed values after measuring the same event.
What is Inter-observer agreement?
The antecedent stimulus that is present when a behavior is reinforced.
What is Discriminative Stimulus (SD)?
when prompts are gradually reduced
What is prompt fading?
A therapist records whether a student was on or off task while completing a puzzle every 2 minutes. What data collection method is being used?
What is Momentary Time Sampling?
The REMOVAL of an averse stimulus following a behavior that is responsible for INCREASING in the future.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
I do not like a fan blowing in my face, I turn the fan off.
Positive or Negative?
Reinforcement or Punishment?
What is Negative Reinforcement?
What is it called when a student has learned to act in a certain way in the presence of a specific person?
What is Stimulus Control?
Oversight by a qualified behavior analyst, Ongoing assessment of skills, Goals focused on communication, social ability, self-care, play/leisure, motor, academics, Goals are centered on promoting independence, Plans/skills are broken down into manageable steps are all part of this.
What is an Intervention?
Visual, verbal, gestural, modeling, partial physical, and full physical make up this.
What is Prompt Hierarchy?
Any behavior that leaves an impact on the environment and can be recorded after the behavior occurs.
What is Permanent Product Recording?
The ADDITION of an aversive stimulus following a behavior that subsequently DECREASES that behavior.
What is Positive Punishment?
I want to stop cursing; I wear a rubber band on my wrist and snap it every time I say a curse word.
Reinforcement or Punishment?
Positive or Negative?
What is Positive Punishment?
Behaivors that interfere with self or others well being, learning, satisfaction, or progress.
What are behaviors targeted for reduction?