Acronyms
What does ABC stand for?
Antecedent
Behavior
Consequence
Each time a child's mom is talking on the phone the child hits their mom until she looks at them. What is the hypothesized function?
What is attention?
Presentation of a stimulus that increases the future likelihood of a behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
Any activity of a living organism.
What is a behavior?
The process of breaking a complex skill into a series of smaller, teachable steps.
What is a task analysis?
Discriminative stimulus
A child engages in elopement each time a demand is placed. What would you hypothesize is the function of this behavior?
What is escape?
Presentation of an aversive stimulus that decreases the future likelihood of a behavior.
What is positive punishment?
The process of no longer reinforcing a behavior based on a functional analysis with the intent to decrease that behavior.
What is extinction?
The process of teaching a task beginning with the final step.
What is a backwards chaining procedure?
What does R+ mean?
Reinforcement
A child's favorite snack is on the top shelf, they climb on the counter. What is the possible function of this behavior?
What is tangible/access?
Removal of a preferred stimulus which decreases the future likelihood of a behavior
What is negative punishment?
The continued performance of a skill after teaching procedures are ended.
What is maintenance?
The process of teaching a task beginning with the first step.
What is forward chaining?
What does SEAT stand for?
What are sensory, escape, attention, and tangible?
A child engages in vocal stimming when no one else is around. What is a possible function of this behavior?
What is sensory?
Removal of an aversive stimulus which increases the future likelihood of a behavior
These are the four verbal operants.
What are mand, tact, echoic, and intraverbal?
The process of differentially reinforcing successive approximations until a desired behavior is emitted.
What is shaping?