Acronyms
Terms
Reinforcement & Punishment
Teaching Strategies
Misc.
100

This is commonly referred to as "ABC".

What is antecedent, behavior and consequence?

100

This term refers to the activity of living organisms that is external or internal observable.

What is behavior?

100

______ ________ occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions.

What is Positive Reinforcement?

100

This strategy involves differential reinforcments of successive approximations to a terminal behavior.

What is shaping?

100

This is best classified as a request.

What is a mand?

200

This term is referred to as an FBA.

What is a Functional Behavior Assessment?

200

A written set of instructions for teaching behavioral skills to replace problem behavior.

What is behavior intervention plan?

OR

What is a BIP?


200

_____ ______ occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that decreases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions.

What is Positive Punishment?

200

This strategy involves reinforcing all other behaviors within a time interval besides the target behavior.

What is differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO)?

200

Teacher: "Twinkle twinkle little" Child: "star" This is an example of...

What is an intraverbal?

300

This term is referred to as SD.

What is discriminative stimulus?

300

This is the process of breaking a complex skill or series of behaviors into smaller, teachable units; also refers to the result of this process.

What is task analysis?

300

_______ _________ occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the removal of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions.

What is Negative Reinforcement?

300

This strategy involves withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.

What is extinction?

300

These are the four functions of behavior.

What is access to tangibles, escape, attention and automatic reinforcement?

400

DTT stands for this.

What is Discrete Trial Training?

400

The scientfic practice of applying the principles of behavior analysis to solve socially meaningful human problems.

What is Applied Behavior Analysis?

OR

What is ABA?

400

______ ______ occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that decreases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions.

What is Negative Punishment

400

This strategy involves repeatedly using the same SD several times in a row and is used to introduce new items and/or work on trouble items.

What is mass trials?

400

This is an increase in the frequency of responding when an extinction procedure is initially implemented.

What is an extinction burst?

500

S-R-C refers to this three word term.

What is stimulus--response--consequence?

500

These are the 4 verbal operants.

What is mand, tact, intraverbal and echoic?

500

This is only reinforcing those responses within a response class that meet a specific criterion along some dimension (i.e., frequency, topography, duration, latency, magnitude) and placing all other responses in the class of extinction.

What is differential reinforcement?

500

With this method you start the most intrusive prompts and gradually fade to less intrusive prompts.

What is most to least prompt heirarchy?

500

In order for an item to be considered generalized, it must be across these 3 things.

What is different people, different settings and different stimuli?