Verbal Behavior
DATA
Teaching
Misc. Terms
Acronyms
100

This is a request for something wanted or needed.

What is a MAND

100
A count or tally of each behavior that occurred. 

What is frequency data

100

This teaching method breaks down skills, into smaller teachable parts.

What is DTT (discrete trial teaching)

100

A stimulus that increase future frequency of a behavior

What is REINFORCEMENT

100

ABA

Applied Behavior Analysis

200

A label, or name. Can be pure or impure.

What is a TACT

200

A measurement of the time a behavior occurs. 

What is DURATION

200

Teahcing learned skills in one context, to different contexts such as different people, settings, or items. 

What is GENERALIZATION

200

Withholding reinforcement from a previously reinforced behavior.

What is EXTINCTION

200

FCT

Functional Communication Training

300

A verbal imitation of what another person says

What is an ECHOIC

300

This records what happens before and after a behavior occurs.

ABC Data

300

This teaching style involves embedding goals into natural play or opportunities. 

NET (Natural Environment Teaching) 

300

An antecedent stimulus that brings about a specific behavior.

What is a PROMPT

300

VB

Verbal Behavior

400

Verbal responses from one speaker to verbal stimuli of another speaker. 

What is an INTRAVERBAL

400

This recording records behavior that occurs throughout the entire interval. 

What is WHOLE INTERVAL RECORDING

400

A type of NET strategy that involves capturing naturally occurring opportunities to teach skills, usually communication. 

What is INCEDENTAL TEACHING

400

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

Shaping

400

BIP

Behavior Intervention Plan

500

This verbal operant involves writing down what you hear or other's have said.

Transcription

500

This type of data collection includes parital interval, whole interval, and momentary time sampling of behaviors. 

What is DISCONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT.

500

The antecedent or instruction evoking a response/behavior.

What is an sD (discriminative stimulus)

500

A procedure used to “test” a skill, or part of a skill, to assess if a specific step is already in the learner’s repertoire.

What is a PROBE

500

AAC

Augmentative and Alternative Communication