ABA Jeopardy

Acronyms

100

ABC stands for these terms

Antecedent, behavior, consequence

200

R + stands for this term

Positive reinforcement

300

This term is referred to as SD

What is discriminative stimulus

400

FBA stands for this term. 

What is a Functional Behavior Assessment

500

DTT stands for this term

Discrete trial teaching

Terms

100

This term refers to the activity of living organisms that is measurable and observable

What is behavior

200

These are like antecedents, but could happen say, earlier in the day/week such as a dentist appointment or dad being out of town. 

What is a setting event

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 chaining

400

The sequence of new response classes that emerge during the shaping process as the result of differential reinforcement; each response class is closer in form to the terminal behavior than the response class it replaces.

What is successive approximations

500

These are the verbal operants

What is a mand, tact, intraverbal and echoic

Reinforcement & Punishment (plus a bonus)

100

Chris hates cleaning his room and rarely does it. Mom decides to give Chris an ice cream bar after he cleans up. Chris loves ice cream. Mom gives him one after every time he cleans the room for a whole month. During this time, she notices that he is cleaning his room much more often. This is an example of what?

What is positive reinforcement

 

200

Something aversive is added to the environment after a behavior. This results in the decrease of this behavior.

What is positive punishment

300

Something pleasant is removed to the environment after a behavior. This results in the decrease of this behavior.

What is negative punishment

400

Something aversive is removed to their environment following a behavior. This results in the increase of this behavior.

What is negative reinforcement. 

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

Teaching Strategies

100

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

What is shaping

200

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

What is differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO)

300

This strategy involves withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.

What is extinction

400

Moving the stimuli in an array so that the correct answer is clear (Ex. moving the correct answer closer)

What is a positional prompt 

500

This procedure is used for transferring stimulus control in which features of an antecedent stimulus controlling a behavior are gradually changed to a new stimulus while maintaining the current behavior

What is fading

Continuous & Discontinuous Forms of Measurement

100

Brian Cranston's uncle assesses 4-year-old Charlie's attention span by dividing story time into 30-second intervals, only marking "attentive" for intervals where Charlie focuses on the book the entire time.

What is whole interval recording?

200

Lemongrab counts that 2-year-old Ava says "more please" 12 times during a 30-minute snack period, calculating that Ava makes this request 0.4 times per minute.

What is rate measurement

300

During circle time, Paul Rudd counts times how many seconds pass between telling 5-year-old Bert to join circle, and when she actually begins to move in the direction of circle time. 

 

What is latency measurement?

400

During free play, a Picklerick divides a 20-minute observation into 15-second intervals and marks whether 2-year-old Caleb throws toys at any point during each interval, even just once.

What is partial interval recording?

500

For 6-year-old Mia who struggles with sustained attention, her therapist, Carlos Santana carefully tracks the time between when she looks away from her coloring activity and when she returns her focus to coloring again.

What is inter-response time (IRT)?