ABA 101
An event that occurs after a behavior and changes the likelihood of that behavior.
What is a consequence?
A count of every instance of a behavior
What is Frequency?
Teaching stimuli used to systematically provide learners with the appropriate response. Proactively faded to transfer stimulus control to SD.
What are prompts?
The client engages in inappropriate behavior such as cursing to get a reaction out of the BT.
What is attention?
What is Applied Behavior Analysis
The process of reinforcing successive approximations to a target behavior.
What is shaping?
A measure of how many times a behavior occurs during a specific time frame.
What is rate?
When attempting to reduce a behavior, it is important to know your ABC's prior to starting a behavior plan. What does ABC stand for
What is Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence ?
Student engages in open hand hitting while demanding for a gold fish snack. Therapist gives the gold fish snack and the student stops hitting.
What is tangibles?
A person that provides intervention therapy to clients
What is Behavior Technician ?
The procedure in which a consequence is ADDED AFTER a behavior and the likelihood of that behavior INCREASES.
What is positive reinforcement?
A measure of how long a behavior occurs.
What is duration?
The term NET stands for
What is natural environment teaching?
What is ABC data?
The term BIP stands for
What we call the event when a child has no control over their emotions and it is mostly an explosion of emotions.
What is a meltdown?
Arranging a teaching situation in which the learner imitates a target behavior performed by a model for a learner to imitate
What is modeling ?
Historically the primary instructional method used in ABA intervention for children with ASD
What is discrete trial?
Teacher uses instructional voice in order to gain attention of the class. Student runs away and covers his ears in response to this aversive stimulus. Identify the function.
What is escape?
Federal law that protects client sensitive information
What is HIPAA?
Event or stimuli that occurs BEFORE behavior and contributes to the elicitation of the behavior.
What is an antecedent?
The measure of time between an SD and a response.
What is latency?
Term used when child learns something in one environment and can independently apply it in another
What is generalization ?
What is sensory?
The assessment done by the clinical supervisors and program supervisors to come up with the Behavior Intervention Program
What is FBA - Functional Behavior Assessment ?