What's The Function (WTF?!)
You and your student are playing legos. You remove the legos and the student screams
Access to tangibles
When Johnny says “airplane" after seeing an airplane while playing on the playground, he has elicited a _____
Tact
Elapsed time between the onset of a stimulus and the initiation of the response
latency
Failure to fade prompts can lead to this
Prompt dependency
Multiple Baseline can be across 3 different variables:
Settings, Behaviors, Participants
You and the learner are at the table. You say, give me the letter A, and the learner throws all the materials off the table
escape
Answering questions, word-associations, fill-ins, and conversational responses are all examples of this operant
Intraverbals
Collecting data on all responses of behavior during a data collection period
Continuous measurement
These are examples of ways we can directly identify a student's preferred items/activities.
preference assessment
used to describe experiments in which an effective treatment is sequentially or partially withdrawn to promote the maintenance of behavior changes.
Withdrawal/Reversal design
You and the learner are playing legos when a colleague walks in. You turn to the colleague and begin to talk/ Your learner screams at you and punches you in the gut.
Attention
Typically the first verbal operant you should teach a learner
mand
These are examples of discontinuous data collection procedures
Partial, Whole, Momentary Interval
Every time Liam sneezed I said bless you which he enjoys. Liam would then pretend to sneeze several times in a row. Eventually I stop saying bless you to Liam and he stops fake sneezing. What is this concept called?
Extinction
an experimental design that begins with the concurrent measurement of two or more behaviors in a baseline condition, followed by the application of the treatment variable to one of the behaviors while baseline conditions remain in effect for the other behaviors. After maximum change has been noted in the first behavior the treatment variable is applied in sequential fashion to each of the other behaviors in the design. Experimental control is demonstrated if each behavior shows similar changes when the treatment variable is introduced.
Multiple Baseline Design
The learner is playing with legos and you approach and begin talking to the learner. The learner screams
Escape, Social negative reinforcement
The Sd, "Touch apple" is an example of this operant.
Listener Responding
This type of data collection involves looking at the impact of the behavior on the environment.
Permanent Product Recording
I get a puff of air in my eye and blink. What type of conditioning is that?
respondent conditioning
initial baseline phase is followed by a series of treatment phases consisting of successive and gradually changing criteria for reinforcement or punishment.
Changing Criterion
The learner is playing with the iPad and you remove the iPad. Just before you can tell the learner to come to the table, the learner kicks you in the face
Access to tangibles
A category sort program would fall under this operant.
VP-MTS, Visual perception, match-to-sample
Graphs are AWESOME! These are the three ways we look at data to interpret and visually analyze the changes in data.
Level, Variability, Trend
I like to drink martinis. I drink too many martinis and throw-up which is unpleasant. Next time I go out I don’t drink martinis. What type of conditioning took place?
Operant Conditioning
two or more conditions are presented in rapidly alternating succession independent of the level of responding. Differences in responding between or among conditions are attributed to the effects of the conditions
Alternating treatments / Multi-element design