Acronyms
ABC
What is Antecedent Behavior Consequence?
The process by which you connect yourself with the child’s favorite items and activities in order to build rapport.
What is stimulus-stimulus pairing?
Any consequence that increases the future likelihood of a behavior
What is reinforcement?
Pointing, motioning or nodding towards correct response
What is a gesture prompt?
Potential function of behavior that results in interactions with another person or reactions from another person (physical or social)
What is attention?
DRO
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviors
A scientific approach that uses evidenced based interventions to improve socially significant behaviors
What is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)?
Any consequence that decreases the future likelihood of a behavior
What is punishment?
Demonstrate and/or act out the correct response
What is a model prompt?
Behavior results in access to reinforcing materials or stimuli
tangible
NCR
Non-contingent Reinforcement
A skill that also means to request or ask for
What is a mand?
procedure for weakening or eliminating a behavior by discontinuing the reinforcement that maintains it (but watch out for the bursts!)
What is extinction?
True or False: the SD is a prompt
False
Behavior results in termination or avoidance of unwanted interactions with others or postpones aversive events.
Escape or avoidance
NET
What is Natural Environment Teaching/Training
The gradual reduction of assistance or cues given to help an individual perform a task, with the goal of enabling independent performance. This refers to the process, not the prompt itself.
What is prompt fading?
The motivations that encourage or discourage certain behaviors
What are Motivating Operations?
This type of cue requires hand over hand assistance.
What is full physical prompt?
When a behavior produces its own reinforcing consequence without the need for external rewards from other people or the environment
What is sensory/automatically maintained behavior?
RBT, BCaBA, BCBA
Registered Behavior Technician, Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst, Board Certified Behavior Analyst
The activity and responding of living organisms; must be both observable and measurable.
What is behavior?
The 4 basic principles of behavior
What are Reinforcement, Punishment, Extinction, Motivating Operations?
This prompt hierarchy begins with a full prompt and is systematically faded to a partial prompt and sometimes a gesture/model before independent responding is expected.
What is most to least prompting?
The 4 functions of behavior
What are sensory, escape, attention, tangible