Functions of Behavior
The 4 functions of behavior are:
Escape, Attention, Tangible, and Sensory
The preference assessment in which stimuli is presented one at a time in a random order and records the learner's reaction is called what?
Single stimulus assessment
This is the least intrusive type of prompt, typically used to encourage independent responding.
Verbal Prompt
This verbal operant occurs when a person requests or asks for something they want or need.
Mand
This is the process of reinforcing successive approximations to a desired behavior.
Shaping
You are running a small group during reading instruction. One of your students calls out and is making funny faces and noises causing peers to react and laugh. What is the hypothesized function of the behavior?
Attention
The type of preference assessment that you should run if the learner has limited skills with scanning large arrays, and accepting removal of items would be ..
Free Operant Preference Assessment
In the prompt hierarchy, this type of prompt involves gently guiding the learner through the motion needed to complete the task.
Physical Prompt
This verbal operant involves labeling or naming things in the environment.
Tact
This schedule of reinforcement provides a reward after an unpredictable number of responses.
Variable ratio schedule
You walk with your student down the hall, as soon as you get to the classroom door, they drop to the floor. What is the hypothesized function?
Escape
Paired Stimulus Preference Assessments are also called what?
Forced Choice
This prompt involves visual aids such as pictures, icons, or gestures to help the learner complete a task.
Visual Prompt
This type of verbal operant occurs when a person repeats what someone else has said.
Echoic
This term refers to a decrease in a behavior due to the removal of reinforcement.
Extinction
ABC stands for:
Antecedent Behavior Consequence
How do you calculate the highest preferred item when using a paired preference assessment?
Add up the amount of times each of the items were selected. The item that was selected the most is highest preferred, the item selected the least the least preferred item
This procedure systematically reduces the level of assistance provided, moving from more intrusive prompts to less intrusive ones.
Prompt Fading
This verbal operant is a response to a question or statement, often involving fill-in-the-blank or answering based on prior learning.
Intraverbal
This type of data collection records whether a behavior occurred at any point during a specific interval of time.
Partial Interval Recording
You let the student know they can take a break. You start to gather materials, while monitoring the student. The student is given leisure materials and is observed rocking back and forth. What is the hypothesized function?
Sensory
In a MSWO the items in the array reduces to one item which shows the least preferred item, where as in a MSWR the item chosen gets put back in the array and could be picked multiple times which would show a highly preferred item
This is the term for the order in which prompts are provided, starting with the most intrusive and ending with the least intrusive.
Most-to-Least Prompting
In Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior, this is a type of verbal operant controlled by a nonverbal stimulus, such as an object or event.
Tact
In ABA, this is a procedure where a reinforcer is delivered only when a specific behavior occurs and is withheld when the behavior does not occur.
Differential Reinforcement