Acronyms
Schedules of Reinforcement
Measurement
Name that Prompt
Misc.
100

ABC

Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence

100

A client is reinforced after every 10th response

Fixed Ratio

100

a measure of the amount of responses occurred during a given time

Frequency

100

involves demonstrating the target behavior

Model

100

The process by which you establish yourself as a reinforcer

Pairing

200

SR+

Reinforcement

200

A client is reinforced on an average of 1 minute

Variable Interval

200

frequency over time

Rate

200

some aspect of the SD or Sdelta is changed to help a person make a correct discrimination

Within Stimulus Prompt

200

The likelihood that your instruction will evoke a correct response from your student

Instructional Control

300

SD

Discriminative Stimulus

300

A student is reinforced on an average of 5 responses

Variable Ratio

300

a measure of the total time for which a behavior occurs

Duration

300

involves modeling a portion of the target behavior or using some other physical movement (point to the correct card)

Gesture prompt

300

This signals that reinforcement is available

Discriminative Stimulus (SD)

400

FBA

Functional Behavior Assessment

400

A client is reinforced every 3 minutes

Fixed Interval

400

a measure of the amount of time from the onset of a stimulus to the initiation of a response

Latency

400

preparing the student for the next response. Showing them a preview of what they should be doing

Priming

400

Differential reinforcement of approximations towards a target response

Shaping

500

CMO

Conditioned Motivating Operation

500

This type of reinforcement schedule produces high, steady consistent rates of responding

Variable Ratio

500

a measure of the amount of time between the end of one response and the initiation of the next response

Inter-response time

500

Moving the stimuli in an array so that the correct answer is clear (Ex. moving the correct answer closer)

Positional Prompt

500

What are the 7 dimensions

Generality, Effective, Technological, Applied, Conceptually Systematic, Behavioral, Analytic