Pairing and Instructional control
What is pairing?
Process by which Therapist conditions themselves with the client’s reinforcement
What does ABA stand for?
Applied behavior analysis
Whats duration data collection.
Measures how long the targeted behavior lasted.
A demand. Client is motivated for the item, activity, person, tangible, etc.
Whats frequency data collection.
measures the number of times a behavior was observed and counted. think tally
Should you ever go right into teaching when you are filling in with a new client?
Nope. You have not paired, no instructional control
What's a cold probe?
'The cold probe is a data collection procedure that involves a ‘test’ to determine whether or not a skill can be performed without assistance, prompting or coaching at the beginning of the session.
A new client spins in circles occasionally and aggresses towards peers daily. What would be the best target behavior for his treatment plan?
Aggression
Provide SD for echoic
"say"
Define extinction
Stopping or discontinuing reinforcement for a behavior that has been previously reinforced
Describe a situation that should be avoided during the pairing process.
1) Reinforcing maladaptive behaviors
2) associating self with aversive events
3) turn reinforcers into tasks or demands
Name 2 examples of reinforcers
skittle, favorite toy, verbal praise etc
What SIB mean?
Self-injurious behavior
Provide an SD for a tact (remember a tact is essentially a label)
What is it?, What do you see? What is happening?
Define antecedent.
Any stimulus change that occurs before a behavior and sets up the occurrence of that behavior. Think ABC, antecedent, behavior, consequence
What is instructional control?
The Tx history of reinforcing compliance and appropriate or expected behavior.
A goal just became mastered, where does it go now?
Into maintenance
whats an SD for the gross motor imitation target of arms up?
"Do this", "try this" etc and you would model it for client
A client is walking down the hall and points to a picture of a dog and independently says "dog". Is this a mand, tact, intraverbal, or echoic?
tact-he labeled the dog picture
What are 4 functions of behavior?
Automatic reinforcement (often called sensory), escape, attention, tangible
Describe the steps to pairing.
1)Place no demands (now there may be times that you have to place demands, like the client has to go to the other room for diaper change etc. and this is okay and expected). 2)identify likes/dislikes and potential reinforcers. 3) condition self with client’s reinforcers by engaging with the client’s reinforcers, control access to reinforcers. 4) pair voice with reinforcers
Whats the Premack principle?
“First/Then”, or “High Probability/Low Probability”. The Low prob behavior functions and reinforcement for the High prob behavior.
Whats a response?
a single instance of a behavior?
Describes the difference between spontaneous and prompted mand.
A prompted mand is any request in which the client requires assistance to produce (e.g. the Tx says ‘what do you want’). A spontaneous mand occurs separate from any assistance and is purely contrived by motivation.
You want you client to "sit down" what type of prompt do you use? verbal or physical?
Physical. Why-because the is a receptive goal and you want a physical response (him sitting).