The Fundamentals
Anything a living organism does.
Behavior
What are the four functions of behavior?
Sensory (Automatic), Escape, Attention, Tangible (Access)
What is the name for an event/stimulus that occurs prior to the behavior/response?
Antecedent
Consequence that increases the probability of a behavior.
Reinforcement
This involves recording the count or number of occurrences of a target behavior.
Frequency Recording
To target a behavior in ABA, the behavior must be both __________ and ___________.
Observable and measurable
________________ is a process that identifies specific target behavior, the purpose of the behavior, and what factors maintain the behavior.
Functional Behavior Assessment; FBA
Which process involves using a high-probability behavior to reinforce a low-probability behavior?
Premack Principle
The contingent removal of an aversive stimulus immediately following a response that serves to increase the likelihood that the response will occur again in the future is called __________________________
Negative Reinforcement
This involves recording the length of time a behavior occurs.
Duration Recording
___________ is the process of systematically applying interventions based upon the principles of learning theory to improve socially significant behaviors to a meaningful degree, and to demonstrate that the interventions employed are responsible for the improvement in behavior
Applied Behavior Analysis; ABA
The extent in which a stimulus exerts stimulus control as a function of its distinction from trained stimuli is called __________?
Discrimination
Bonus: What is an example of stimulus discrimination? Response discrimination?
Complex, contextual variables that temporarily impact the motivating operations and, subsequently, the likelihood that behaviors will occur might be called a _____.
Setting event
Withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior to reduce the occurrence of the behavior is called ___________________
Extinction
This involves observing/recording whether a behavior occurs or does not occur at any time during specified time period.
Partial-Interval Recording
Behaviorists believe that behaviors are _________.
Learned
The extent in which a stimulus exerts stimulus control as a function of its similarity to trained stimuli is called __________?
Generalization
Bonus: What is an example of stimulus generalization? Response generalization?
Name three types of prompts.
Full Physical, Partial Physical, Full Echoic, Partial Echoic, Visual, etc,
_______________ decreases behavior by the addition of an aversive event when the behavior occurs.
Positive Punishment
A behavioral recording method in which results of a behavior (e.g., the number of windows broken, homework problems handed in) are measured.
Permanent Product Recording
__________ behavior, refers to voluntary behavior, controllable by the individual.
Operant
What is the most precise, rigorous, and controlled method of identifying potential variables that control and maintain a behavior?
Experimental Functional Analysis; EFA
This antecedent, referred to as a _______________ , signals the availability of reinforcement, contingent on the occurrence of a behavior.
Discriminative Stimulus (SD)
This process involves reinforcing successive approximations of a specific behavior.
Shaping
This involves recording pattern of behavior, including what happens before and after a target behavior.
A-B-C Data