Professional and Ethical Issues
State board that oversees the licensing of behavior analysts and assistant behavior analysts and the registration of behavior analysis interventionists.
What is the Behavior Analysis Regulatory Board (BARB)
The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).
Something that is known to increase the occurrence of a behavior.
What is a reinforcer?
Rules describing the delivery of reinforcers for a behavior. (Common examples include continuous, fixed ratio, variable ratio, fixed interval, and variable interval)
What are schedules of reinforcement?
Online platform that is used at LifeStance to collect daily program data for each client?
What is Catalyst?
Individual required by the state to report suspected abuse or neglect, whether this abuse is physical, psychological, sexual or financial
What is a mandatory reporter?
Anything a person does, that can be observed and measured.
What is beahvior?
Assessments used to find potential reinforcers of a learner.
What is a preference assessment?
A consequence that happens after a behavior that serves to reduce the likelihood of that behavior happening again in the future.
What is a punishment?
How many times a behavior occurs.
What is frequency?
The state or practice of doing one's job with skill, competence, ethics, and courtesy.
What is professionalism?
Four primary functions of behavior.
What is sensory, escapse, attentition, and tangibles?
Any method of collecting data that requires students to demonstrate a knowledge, skill, or behavior. (Common examples include VB-Mapp, ABLLS, PEAK)
What is direct assessment?
A structured ABA technique that breaks down skills into small, “discrete” components.
What is discreate trial training?
The amount of time during which a behavior occurs?
What is duration?
A situation where multiple roles exist between a therapist and the client.
What is multiple OR dual relationship?
A clear, concise detailed definition of a behavior.
What is an operational definition.
Any method of collecting data that requires reflection on student learning, skills, or behaviors, rather than a demonstration of it. (Common examples include interviews, rating scales, and questionnaires)
What is indirect assessment?
A scientifically proven teaching method which allows ABA practitioners to incorporate the learner's natural environment into the teaching, development, and generalization of skills
What is Natural Environment Teaching (NET)?
Real or concrete objects or outcomes that result from a behavior.
What is permanent product?
An instructional/intervention procedure or set of procedures for which researchers have provided an acceptable level of research that shows the practice produces positive outcomes for children, youth, and/or adults with ASD.
What is evidence based practice?
When a learned behavior is emitted in the presence of certain appropriate antecedent stimuli and is not emitted when these stimuli are missing.
What is stimulus control?
A systematic process of identifying problem behaviors and the events that (a) reliably predict occurrence and nonoccurrence of those behaviors and (b) maintain the behaviors across time.
What is a functional behavior assessment.
The breakdown of a complex skills into smaller simpler steps, this involves sequencing the steps together in a chain. (Common example includes hand washing.)
What is a task analysis?
An instructor-established standard of performance that may signal the acquisition of a novel skill or the conclusion of a phase of intervention.
What is mastery criteria?