Abbreviations
ABC, VR-2, BIP
What is Antecendent, behavior, consequence, Variable Ratio 2, Behavior Intervention Plan
Katie loves skittles. Katie is sitting nicely during circle time with her friends. Her teacher gives her a skittle.
What is positive reinforcement
What are the four functions of behavior?
What is attention, access to tangibles, escape and automatic reinforcement
A model is an antecedent stimulus that evokes _______ behavior.
What is imitative
A stimulus change that increases the future frequency of behavior that immediately precedes it.
What is a reinforcer?
DRO, DRA
Adriana engages in aggression to others as a form of escape maintained challenging behavior. Whenever Adriana is aggressive toward her therapists, they place a green blocking mat in front of her to block her attempts at biting, hitting, etc. This has decreased Adriana's aggression to others significantly.
What is positive punishment
Whenever Mariel is required to complete 24-piece puzzles, she engages in verbal disruptions and sometimes is aggressive.
What is escape
Pre-requisite for teaching imitation. Staying seated, looking at the teacher, keep hands in lap, looking at objects/the array
What are attending skills?
Effects of an observation and measurement procedure on the behavior being measured. _____ is most likely when measurement procedures are obtrusive especially if the person is being observed.
What is Reactivity
SR+, SD, SDelta
Reinforcement, discriminitive stimulus, stimulus delta
Bob dislikes going to circle time. He will sit at the table for a few minutes, but then asks his therapist for a break. His staff honor this request every time that he is in circle time.
What is negative reinforcement
Katie posts a selfie to instragram with the caption "I'm so ugly".
What is attention maintained behavior?
A method for teaching behavior chains that begins with the learner being prompted and taught to perform the first behavior in the task analysis. The trainer completes the remaining steps in the chain.
What is forward chaining? Give an example.
The discontinuing of a reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior; the primary effect is a decrease in the frequency of the behavior until it reaches a pre-reinforced level or ultimately ceases to occur.
What is extinction?
MO, EO, AO
What is motivating operation, establishing operation, abolishing operation
A contingency of reinforcement in which some, but not all, occurrences of the behavior produce reinforcement.
What is intermittent reinforcement
Lance engages in clapping behavior. He engages in this behavior across all environments, demands and therapists. Lance engages in clapping behavior during both preferred and non-preferred activities.
What is automatically reinforced behavior
Adriana wants an apple. She looks at her therapist, who has an apple. Her therapist praises her and gives her the apple. The next time Adriana wants an apple, she looks at her therapist. This time, the therapist prompts Adriana to point to the apple. Adriana points to the apple, and her therapist gives her the apple. The next time Adriana wants an apple, her therapist prompts her to say "a" in order to receive the apple.
What is shaping
Reinforcing only those responses within a response class that meet a specific criterion along some dimensions and placing all other responses in the class on extinction.
What is differential reinforcement
FAST, MAS
What is Functional Assessment Screening Tool, Motivation Assessment Scale
Adriana engages in aggression to others as a form of escape maintained challenging behavior. Whenever Adriana is aggressive toward her therapists, they place a green blocking mat in front of her to block her attempts at biting, hitting, etc. Adriana is working with her therapist, and begins engaging in challenging behavior. As a result, Adriana's therapist moves the green mat closer to where she is sitting. Adriana sees the mat and points to it and says "No! I don't want it!"
What is negative reinforcement
Liala loves snacks. When Liala's therapist presents work tasks, Liala begins to engage in verbal disruptions, agg. to environment and agg. to others. While engaging in challenging behavior, Liala also requests for snacks. In the past, when staff have physically prompted Liala to complete her work, she continues to engage in higher frequencies of previously mentioned challenging behavior.
What is multiply maintained challenging behavior, what are attention, escape and access to tangibles.
Create a task analysis for any behavior.
Write it down
An analysis of the purposes of problem behavior wherein antecedents and consequences representing those in the persons natural routines are arranged within an experimental design so that their separate effects on problem behavior can be observed and measured.
What is functional analysis