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This is anything that increases the future likelihood of a behavior.
What is a reinforcer?
A stimulus change that decreases future behavior.
What is a punisher?
The least intrusive type of prompt, like pointing or gesturing.
What is a gesture prompt?
Asking for an item, action, or help
What is a mand?
Gradually removing prompts so the behavior occurs independently.
What is prompt fading?
This type of reinforcer is learned, like tokens or praise.
What is a conditioned reinforcer?
This type of punishment involves removing a stimulus.
What is negative punishment?
This type of prompt gives a correct answer for imitation.
What is a model prompt?
Labeling or naming something in the environment.
What is a tact?
A prompt hierarchy often moves from most to least assistance, known as this.
What is most-to-least prompting?
This schedule delivers reinforcement after a set number of responses.
What is a fixed ratio schedule?
Reprimands, extra chores, and overcorrection are examples of this type of punishment.
What is positive punishment?
Moving a student’s hand to complete a task is using this type of prompt.
What is a physical prompt?
Responding to a question or comment from another person.
What is an intraverbal?
This fading strategy increases independence by waiting longer before prompting.
What is time delay?
Reinforcing a behavior after an average number of responses has occurred.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
Giving a child time away from a favorite toy is this type of consequence.
What is a response cost or time-out?
Saying, “What do you say?” before a child asks for help is what kind of prompt?
What is a verbal prompt?
Repeating what someone else says.
What is echoic behavior?
This fading technique moves from least intrusive to most intrusive prompts only as needed.
What is least-to-most prompting?
This is when a reinforcer no longer follows a behavior, leading to a decrease in that behavior.
What is extinction?
This term describes when punishment no longer reduces behavior.
What is habituation or punishment resistance?
This is where you would find information on how to prompt a skill, particular to a learner, within CentralReach on your data sheet.
What is in the instructional strategy's prompting procedure notes?
This operant is controlled by motivation and is reinforced by the receiving the motivation of the speaker
What is a mand?
This occurs when a learner relies on external assistance to perform a behavior and fails to respond independently, often due to a lack of proper prompt fading.
What is prompt dependency?