Instructional Procedures
Schedules of Reinforcement
Prompting
Functions of Behavior
ABA Terminology
100

Where do you find an instructional procedure?

In the client's binder

100

What does FR stand for?

Fixed ratio

100

What is prompting?

Assistance/help provided to your learner to complete task

100

What are the 4 functions?

Attention

Access

Escape

Sensory

100

An observable and measurable act an organism does, including covert actions.

Behavior

200

What is an instructional procedure used for?

Instructions of how to run that specific program

200

What was VI or FI stand for?

Variable interval or fixed interval
200

What is a model prompt?

You showing the client how to do the target behavior and they imitate that behavior. 

200

Your client screams when you are talking to another tech. You immediately stop talking to the tech and engage with your client. Client stops screaming.

Attention

200

Max reinforcement delivered for the desired behavior while reinforcement is either withheld or lessened for prompted responses.  

Differential reinforcement

300

What does the technician write on the instructional procedure?

Start date and mastery date

300

What does FR3:4 min mean?

Completes 3 tasks for 4 minutes of reinforcement time
300

What type of prompt is considered the MOST intrusive?

Full physical prompt

300

Your client bangs on the table with their hands very loudly during their reinforcement time. You have been actively engaged with your client and they have the iPad readily accessible to them. No demands have been placed. Client does not look up or comment about banging. 

Sensory


300

A process utilized to teach a new behavior by reinforcing successive approximations to the target behavior. 

Shaping

400

What does it mean when an IP says "Run concurrently"

Run more than one target at a time

400

What does VI 3 minutes mean?

Work on average of 3 minutes; different time every interval

400

List least to most prompting hierarchy

Gesture/Point

Model

Verbal

Partial physical

Full physical

400

Your client is moving toy cars across their eyeline and repeatedly spins the wheels on the car while making loud, scream-like vocalizations. Your client does not engage in this behavior while completing work and this behavior does not cause a disruption to others. How do you respond?

You don't

400

Temporary increase in a behavior when extinction is first implemented (behavior will get worse before it gets better)

Extinction Burst

500

What are 3 components/categories in an instructional procedure?

Mastery criteria

Field of targets

Data collection 

Error correction

When to provide reinforcement

500

When you need to pause the timer during a VI work interval, how do you record that data?

MINUS

500

What is prompt fading and why is it important?

Gradually reducing intensity of prompting to promote independence. 

Important to prevent prompt dependency

500

During independent work, a learner begins yelling and knocking materials off the table. The teacher removes the task from learner and begins talking to the learner to calm them down. The behavior continues across sessions and over time. What is the function?

Escape and Attention (Multiply controlled)

500

When the behavior is more likely to occur in the presence of a SPECIFIC antecedent stimulus because that behavior has been reinforced in that context in the past. 

Stimulus Control