Acronyms
ABA stands for this term.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis: a data driven and evidence based science of behavior.
This term refers to what happens immediately after a behavior or interest.
What is consequence?
Fully guiding the learner through the response or hand over hand.
What is full physical prompt?
This strategy involves differential reinforcements of successive approximations to a terminal behavior.
What is shaping
Verbal operant used to request.
What is a mand?
This term is referred to as an FBA
What is What is a Functional Behavior Assessment
This is an antecedent strategy; a method used prior to the event to set the stage for a desired response, or to reduce the likelihood of a challenging response.
What is priming?
Using vocal cues to indicate the correct response.
What is Verbal Prompt?
This strategy involves breaking a skill down into a sequence of small steps.
What is a task analysis (TA)?
Teacher: "Twinkle twinkle little" Child: "star" This is an example of
What is an intraverbal?
A change in behavior due to experience.
What is operant conditioning? (learning)
Can include texts or pictures.
What is a visual prompt?
This strategy involves withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.
What is extinction
A verbal operant that is a verbal model.
What is an echoic?
This is commonly referred to as DRO
What is Difference Reinforcement of Other behavior. DRO provides reinforcement for the non-occurrence of the unwanted behavior.
A measurement of behavior that indicates the number of times the target behavior occurs.
What is frequency or rate?
Pointing or using other physical motions to indicate the correct response.
What is a Gestural prompt?
A method of teaching where skills are taught or generalized within the natural environment.
What is Natural Environment Teaching (NET)
A verbal operant; labeling or naming; language is evoked by an item, person or activity.
What is a tact?
What is Functional Communication Training. A method of teaching expressive communication to get needs met.
Antecedent Strategy that makes a low probability (less preferred) task more likely to be completed because it is followed by a higher probability task.
What is the Premack Principle? (First/Then) Also known as "grandma's rule"
Showing the learner what to do before they do it.
What is a model prompt?
A teaching method where there is a clear beginning and end to each trial. There is a presentation, response, and consequence.
What is Discrete Trial Training (DTT)?
When a learner copies another's movements.
What is a motor imitation?