ABA 1
Behavior is shaped through the stimulus change that immediately follow it
Operant Behavior
Why should reinforcement occur immediately?
Because other behaviors may occur in between that may be inadvertently reinforced instead.
What are the two effects of MOs?
Behavior altering and value altering
"Change in environment precede elicited behavior" is an example of _________ ________.
Respondent Behavior
What is frequency?
Compound dimensional quantity describing the average number of events per unit of time.
Procedures for detecting and recording the number of times a behavior is observed
Event Recording
This generates a slow to moderate rate of responding that is constant and stable. There are few, if any post-reinforcement pauses.
Fixed Ratio
Name two antecedents that could be used for problem behaviors due to escape of demands.
I.e. Providing choice, visual schedule, premack principle, noncontingent access to breaks, change nature of the demands
What is rule-governed behavior?
A person states a rule which alters the future probability of other behavior occurring.
What are the 5 verbal operants?
Mand, tact, intraverbal, echoic, and listener
What are the two methods for gathering data?
Indirect and direct methods
You have targeted sucking thumb as target behavior interfering with vocalizations. You design an intervention in which you reinforce (provide social attention to) the learner for manipulating toys and objects, having his hands anywhere other than his face, and engaging in learning tasks with his hands. This is an example of what?
DR0
A measure of temporal locus; the elapsed time from the onset of a stimulus
latency
Name one of the 5 anxiety disorders common among children and adolescents?
Separation anxiety disorder, specific phobia, selective mutism, separation anxiety, and generalized anxiety disorder.
Provide an example of topography-based verbal behavior
Speaking, signing, or writing
what are the functions of behavior
escape, access, tangible, automatic.
Being satiated would abolish food as an effective reinforcer which would ___________ all behavior that has led to getting food in the past.
Abate
Name at least 3 ways to promote generalization
Implement intervention across conditions, settings, people, days, and/or use natural consequences.
A measure of temporal locus; the elapsed time between two successive responses
inter response time
When training, skills to be performed need to be described in:
Observable and measurable terms
The process of breaking a complex skill or series of behaviors into small, teachable units
task analysis
In this procedure, the alternative response produces the same reinforcer that has been maintaining problem behavior.
Functional Communication Training
What is priming?
It is a type of antecedent intervention in which the target behaviors are practiced immediately before being performed. 1st verbal modeling, follow by reinforcement. It can reduce the amount of prompts necessary to perform social skills.
Relative rates of friend’s reactions to rule breaking correlating to rates of rule breaking behavior is consistent with the __________.
Matching Law
A stimulus change that functions as a reinforcer because of prior pairing with one or more reinforcers
conditioned reinforcer