Acronyms
Stands for Applied Behavior Analysis
What is ABA
A cue or assistance given to an individual to aide them in performing a desired behavior or skill correctly
What is a prompt?
systematic patterns that determine when and how often reinforcement is delivered following a desired behavior.
What is reinforcement schedules?
A request for something a person wants/needs or to end something they don't want
What is a mand?
Stands for functional communication training
What is FCT?
deliver reinforcement after a specific, unchanging number of responses.
What is Fixed Ratio (FR) Schedule?
a process used to identify an individual's most-preferred items, activities, or social interactions, which are likely to serve as effective reinforcers and motivate learning
What is preference assessment?
Stands for natural environment training
What is NET?
to help a learner acquire new skills and become independent by providing the necessary support to succeed
What is the goal of prompting?
a behavior modification technique that involves reinforcing a desirable alternative behavior while withholding reinforcement for an undesirable behavior
Stands for antecedent, behavior, and consequence
What is ABC?
Stands for discriminative stimulus
What is SD?
Independent-visual-verbal-gestural-modeling-partial physical-full physical
What is least-to-most prompting?
a schedule of reinforcement where reinforcement is provided after an average, but unpredictable, number of responses
What is Variable Ratio (VR) schedule?
The 4 functions of behaviors
What is tangible, escape, attention, and automatic?
Stands for discrete trial training
What is DTT?
Full physical- partial physical- modeling-gestural-verbal-visual
What is most-to-least prompting?