AKA's
Acronyms
Terms & Functions
Teaching Strategies
Verbal Operants
100

The AKA for Labeling 

What is TACT?

100

TA stands for...

What is TASK ANALYSIS ?

100

The process of building a positive, trusting relationship between the therapist and the client. The goal is for the child to associate the therapist with fun, safety, and positive rewards, making the therapist naturally motivating to be around

What is PAIRING?

100

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

What is SHAPING? 

100

The teacher says "What do you sit on?" and the child says "Chair" This is an example of an...

What is INTRAVERBAL?

200

The AKA for Vocal Imitation

What is Echoic(s)?

200

HRE stands for..

What is Happy, Relaxed, and Engaged?

200

Your client often engages in inappropriate behaviors at the clinic. You notice that when he does this, the technician says "what are you doing?" "no thank you" and "we don't do that" increasing the likelihood that he will continue to do this in the future. What appears to be the function of this behavior?

What is ATTENTION?

200

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 TASK ANALYSIS 

200
PBB walks into the room and says "oh look its a phone!" is an example of a...

What is TACT?

300

The AKA for LISTENER RESPONDING 

What is Receptive Communication?

300

FCT stands for..

What is Functional Communication Training? 

300

Positive reinforcement occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the _______ of a stimulus that ____ the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions.

What is PRESENTATION, what is INCREASES

300

When a patient does not yet respond, and I provide the correct answer so they do not error, this is known as..

What is ERRORLESS TEACHING?

300

The RBT says "sit down" for a child to sit down is known as a...

What is... RECEPTIVE INSTRUCTION? (or listener response)

400

The AKA for Incidental Teaching

What is Natural Environment Teaching?

400

SD stands for...

Discriminative Stimulus 

400

The strongest, most powerful preference assessment is ABA is...

What is PAIRED STIMULUS preference assessment?

400

This strategy involves withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior

What is EXTINCTION?

400

Putting items into categories when given a model, follows under which skill area?

What is VISUAL PERFORMANCE?

500

The AKA for Behavior Momentum

What is High Probability Response Sequence? / High P's 

500

DRI stands for...

What is Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible behaviors? 

500

In order for an item to be considered generalized, it must be across.. (3 answers)

What is people, settings, and stimuli

500

This strategy involves repeatedly using the same Sd several times in a row, and is used to introduce new items and/or work on trouble items

What is MASS TRIALS?

500

This verbal operant requires point to point correspondence (exact/same) and formal similarity in order to be correct 

What is an ECHOIC?!