Reinforcement
This is when something is made less valuable by satiation
What is abolishing operation?
This is how long a behavior occurs. You begin a stopwatch when the behavior begins, and stop the stopwatch when the behavior ends.
What is duration?
The therapist observes which items a client interacts with and records the time that is spend with each item.
What is a free operant preference assessment?
Physically guiding the client's hands to complete the task or skill, using hand-over-hand.
What is full physical?
A data collection which includes antecedent (what happened before the behavior occurred), behavior (what the behavior looked like), consequence (record what happened immediately after the behavior)
What is ABC data?
Providing reinforcement on a fixed response ratio. (hint: token board)
What is fixed ratio (FR)?
A sequence of behaviors that must be performed correctly
What is a behavior chain?
This assessment determines the skills of a learner. This can include social skills, coping skills, self-help skills, language skills, learning skills, daily living skills, communication skills.
What is skill assessments?
A physical prompt is less than full physical prompt, gentle tapping, gradual assistance.
What is partial physical prompt?
What is attention extinction?
What is negative reinforcement?
This is finding out where a client's skills or behaviors are before beginning therapy.
What is baseline?
The most used assessment in ABA, used in the initial evaluation of a new learner.
What is the VBMAPP?
Providing assistance or cues to encourage the use of a specific skill
What is prompting?
a behavior that consequences beyond the change itself
what is a behavioral cusp?
The process in which a stimulus such as an activity, item, etc is added directly to a behavior to increase the likelihood of the behavior increasing in the future.
What is positive reinforcement?
A behavior selected for change
What is a target behavior?
The client is present with 2 items from the therapist, and the therapist records which one the client chooses.
What is paired choice or forced choice?
Using words, instructions, or questions to assist a learner in demonstrating a correct response
What is verbal prompts?
Training begins the link with the first behavior in the sequence
What is forward chaining?
5 examples of reinforcement to give a learner
What is verbal praise, physical rewards, activities that the learner enjoys, social attention, access to desired activities, recognition from others, stickers, etc.?
A stimulus in the presence of which a particular response will be reinforced.
What is discriminative stimuli (SD)?
A Behavior Analyst manipulates the environment to determine the function of the behavior.
What is functional analysis assessment?
This prompt works in the reverse direction. You begin the teaching interaction by providing a prompt that will help the learner make the correct response, and then begin to fade the prompts out. (hint: full physical, gestural, verbal)
What is most-to-least prompt fading?
The 7 Pillars of ABA (GET A CAB)
What is generality, effective, technological, applied, conceptually systematic, analytic, behavioral?