ABA
This is what ABA stands for
What is Applied Behavior Analysis
Anything that increases the likelihood that a specified behavior will occur
What is a prompt?
Anything an organism does. If a dead man can do it, it is not this
What is behavior ?
This is what occurs immediately prior to the behavior
What is the antecedent?
The addition of a pleasant or desired stimulus after a behavior, increasing the future likelihood of the behavior occurring
What is positive reinforcement ?
“A scientific approach for discovering environmental variables that reliably influence socially significant behavior and for developing a technology of behavior change”
What is Applied Behavior Analysis
This wait time can vary, dependent on the learner, between 3-15 seconds
What is the powerful pause?
These skills are necessary for an individual to live independently and function appropriately in daily life
What are adaptive behaviors?
This is what occurs immediately after the behavior
What is the consequence of behavior ?
The removal of a desirable stimulus after a behavior, decreasing the future likelihood of the behavior occurring
What is negative punishment?
Classroom management, behavior medicine, fitness training, animal training, organizational behavior management and sustainability/environment
What are other areas of our lives that ABA can be used?
Unknowingly cueing a student to a correct response
What is inadvertent prompting?
This is why the behavior happens
What is the function of behavior?
This is something that occurs prior to the behavior (not immediately prior) and is not necessarily occurring in this immediate environment
What is a setting event?
The addition of and undesirable stimulus after a behavior, decreasing the future likelihood of the behavior occurring
What is positive punishment ?
True or False: ABA can only be used to decrease negative behaviors
What is false?
This is due to the overuse of prompts, helping too much or too soon or failure to fade prompts
What is prompt dependency?
This is what the behavior looks like
What is the form of the behavior ?
MEATS
What is the acronym for the functions of behavior?
The removal of an unpleasant or undesirable stimulus after a behavior, increasing the future likelihood of the behavior occurring.
What is negative reinforcement?
A professional who studies the behavior of children and adults to improve or change behavior.
What is a BCBA?
Is typically used in the foundations of skill building with an unknown action or response
What is a full physical prompt?
This type of definition is simple, observable, measurable and does not include things such as feeling or emotion
What is an operational definition ?
This is the function you ALWAYS rule out first when determining the function of behavior
What is the medical function?
All four learning principles are the _____ of the behavior
What is the consequence?