ABA Core Concepts
What is behavior?
Giving a favorite item or praise right after a good behavior is an example of this.
What is positive reinforcement?
This type of recording measures whether a behavior happened at any time during a short interval.
What is partial interval?
This plan tells you how to respond to interfering behavior and what skills to teach instead.
What is a Behavior Intervention Plan?
Directions given to a student that must be followed based on safety.
What are essential demands?
The three-term contingency used to understand and modify behavior, usually referred to as ABC.
What is antecedent, behavior, and consequence.
If a person likes breaks, removing work after they ask could be this kind of reinforcement.
This type of data is generally a narrative, written about the occurrence of a behavior.
What is ABC?
When the client uses a word or gesture instead of engaging in challenging behavior.
The attitude used when responding to students, even when they are having a difficult time.
What is positive, compassionate, and understanding?
A foundational principle where behavior increases due to the consequence.
What is reinforcement?
Right after the behavior.
This is what is taken prior to teaching a skill or providing any intervention.
What is baseline?
The reason a behavior happens—like to get out of a task or to get a toy—is called this.
What is the function?
The act of engaging with the student while they are playing with a preferred activity and following their lead.
What is a shared experience?
Before implementing behavior change procedures, person-centered practitioners must seek this from the individual when possible.
What is assent?
This involves reinforcing desired behavior while withholding reinforcement for less helpful behavior.
This is when you count each time a behavior occurs.
What is frequency recording?
The state of being where a student is calm and most available to learn or try hard things.
What is HRE?
Allowing the student to explore within non-dangerous boundaries and answering all questions, even if they are repetitive.
What is following their lead?
This science focuses on improving socially significant behavior using systematic interventions.
What is applied behavior analysis?
We avoid this behavioral procedure when it creates distress, damages trust, or lacks dignity.
What is punishment-based intervention?
The act of reviewing data to assess whether an intervention is or is not successful prior to making any changes.
What is making data-based decisions?
An effective and ethical plan teaches this alongside behavior reduction strategies.
What are replacement behaviors?
A series of philosophies that are used when there is not a solid behavior plan in order to maintain safety and build a positive relationship.
What are the Universal Protocols?