RBT
Role of Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)
Directly working with students. A Paraprofessional who practices under close supervision.
Describe behavior and environment in observable and measurable terms.
Behavior and environment are observable of PHYSICAL functions. Anything that can be seen or heard. Not based on feelings/thoughts.
To be measurable it defines and describes the behavior.
Name 4 dimensions of ABA starting alphabetically (A,A,B,C)
-Analytic
-Applied
-Behavioral
-Conceptually Systematic
Antecedent
What happened before the behavior occurred. A stimulus that precedes a behavior in time.
Overt Behavior
Can be observed by outside person
RBT work under close ongoing supervision of who?
BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst)
BCBA-D (Doctoral level of certification)
BCaBA (Assistant Behavior Analyst)
An example of describing behavior and environment in observable and measurable terms using [MAD]
[MAD]: what does that Fx look like? Interrupting teacher by yelling "Hey" every 2-3 mins while doing math work.
Name the last 3 ABA dimensions (E,G,T)
-Effective
-General
-Technological
Behavior (in the ABC's) and it needs to be _______ and ______.
What a person (e.g. student, child, client) does. Describing what they said/did. External act of an organism.
Covert Behavior
Can be noted only by person doing the behavior (thinking)
BCBA
Board Certificate Behavior Analyst
Applied Behavior Analysis
A discipline devoted to the understanding and improvement of human behavior.
Pervasive
appears in wide variety of settings
True or False: Physical aggression is okay to put for ABC data. It's measurable and observable.
False. It needs to explain what the physical aggression was.
How to define a behavior? ... what 3 things does it consist of and the term for it.
By being observable, clear and complete - also known as Operational Definition.
BCBA-D
Board Certificate Behavior Analyst - Doctoral
How many dimensions of ABA
7
Applied Behavior (main focus) and Experimental (main focus)
-Behavior itself is functional and meaningful.
-Methodology that results in behavior change regardless of relevance.
Discriminative Stimuli and examples.
Instruction of the teacher.
-assignments written on the board
-"go get ball"
-signals by coach/teacher
Person-Dependent
excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior as well as fear of separation.
BCaBA
Board Certified assistant Behavioral Analyst
Observer Shift
Over time, observer changes how behavior is recorded due to being
-inconsistent
-makes student look better (inaccurate)
Operational Definition
It clearly defines the maladaptive behavior and what one is supposed to be observing.
Why is it important to describe a behavior in observable and measurable terms?
So that the information is not biased and could be clear/complete for future observations to compare (no confusion of what the Fx or Bx are)
The four parts of ABC Data
-Antecedents
-Behavior
-Consequence
-Interpretation