ABA Definitions I
A stimulus that occurred in a person's environment immediately preceding a behavior.
What is an antecedent?
No longer providing reinforcement for a behavior that used to be reinforced, resulting in a decrease in that behavior in the future.
What is extinction?
Individuals who work directly with clients everyday.
Social interactions, communication, restricted and repetitive behaviors.
What are the 3 core deficits of autism?
The four functions of behavior.
What is sensory, escape, attention, tangible?
Any object or event that occurs in a person's environment.
What is a stimulus?
A consequence of a behavior that involves removing something from or postponing something in the person's environment, which increases the future strength of the behavior.
What is negative reinforcement?
Responsible for developing and implementing behavior plans, oversees RBT supervision, has a master's degree, and passed the board exam.
What is a Board Certified Behavior Analysist?
A systematic, scientific, and data driven approach that results in changing socially significant behavior.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
You and your client are doing DTT. You tell your client to stack the blocks. Instead of stacking the blocks, your client pushes the blocks off the table. You give your client a new set of blocks and reiterate the SD.
What is escape?
A stimulus that occurred in a person's environment immediately following a behavior.
What is a consequence?
When a behavior is reinforced in the presence of a particular antecedent stimulus and is not reinforced in the absence of that stimulus, and therefore the behavior is more likely to occur in the presence of that stimulus.
What is stimulus control?
Requires a 40 hour training program and passing an exam for the credential.
Who is a Registered Behavior Technician?
Children can be diagnosed with ASD as early as ___?
What is 18 months?
Mary eats dinner with her father every night. She sits and engages with her father the entirety of the meal. Her father gets a phone call, gets up from the table, and leaves the room. Mary begins to throw her food on the floor. Her father finishes the call and comes back into the kitchen. He notices the food on the ground and directs Mary to pick up the thrown food.
What is attention?
An antecedent that changes the potency of a consequence as a reinforcer, and can be divided into two types: Establishing and Abolishing.
What are motivating operations?
The antecedent stimulus that has stimulus control over behavior because the behavior has been reliably reinforced in the presence of that stimulus in the past.
What is a discriminative stimulus?
The credentialing agency for anyone who practices behavior analysis at any level.
What is the Behavior Analytic Certification Board?
This procedure is used to reduce the frequency of a behavior but not eliminate it from the learner's repertoire entirely.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Low Rate of Behaviors? (DRL)
Vocal stimming, hand flapping, mouthing inedible objects.
What is sensory?
A consequence of a behavior that involves adding something to the person's environment to increase the future strength of that behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
What is a behavior?
Someone who oversees RBTs but many also work directly with the learner, and is overseen by a BCBA. Has a bachelors degree.
Who is a BCaBa? (Board Certified assistant Behavior Analyst)
Time sampling method for measuring behavior in which the observation period is divided into brief time intervals where the. The observer records whether the target behavior occurred at any time during the interval.
What is partial interval?
Engaging in behaviors over videos, a specific toy, candy.
What is tangible?