Scenarios
Jay screams when left alone on the playground. Each time, his teachers come up to him and ask him what is wrong. They realize he is doing it for their attention. They begin ignoring the behavior. Jay initially screams more, but gradually stops when he realizes it does not have the effect he was looking for.
Extinction
FBA
Functional Behavioral Assessment
A system whereby participants earn generalized conditioned reinforcers to exchange them from a menu of backup reinforcers
Token economy
The ABA instructor gives Johnny the instruction, "Touch your head." This is the term that the instruction refers to
Sd (Discriminative Stimulus)
DTI
Discrete Trial Instruction
This term describes stimuli that follows behavior
Consequence
A child was hitting his brother, his mother took away all his toys, and he never hit his brother again
Negative punishment
PECS
Picture Exchange Communication System
This term describes stimuli that precede behavior
Antecedent
ABC
Antecedent Behavior Consequence
This term signals that reinforcement is available
Discriminative Stimulus
FR
Fixed ratio
A set amount of responses before reinforcement
Breaking complex skills or a series of behaviors into smaller teachable units
Task anaylsis