🔍 Behavior Assessment
An assessment that identifies potential reinforcers by systematically presenting stimuli and observing selections.
What is a preference assessment?
A procedure in which reinforcement is delivered for successive approximations of a target behavior.
What is shaping?
Reinforcement delivered for the absence of a target behavior during a specified interval.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)?
A process in which performance is observed and feedback is provided to improve skills.
What is supervision?
A graph characteristic referring to the average value of data points within a phase.
What is level?
The indirect assessment method that relies on interviews, questionnaires, and rating scales.
What is an indirect assessment?
The teaching procedure in which a learner observes a model and then imitates the behavior.
What is modeling?
A procedure in which reinforcement is withheld following a previously reinforced behavior.
What is extinction?
This type of feedback is delivered immediately following performance whenever possible.
What is timely feedback?
A graph characteristic describing the direction and rate of change across time.
What is trend?
This assessment involves direct observation of antecedents, behaviors, and consequences in the natural environment.
What is descriptive assessment?
A prompting procedure that begins with the least intrusive prompt and increases assistance as needed.
What is least-to-most prompting?
Teaching an alternative response that serves the same function as the challenging behavior.
What is Functional Communication Training (FCT)?
The written description of specific behaviors expected from a trainee.
What is an operational definition of performance?
The extent to which data points fluctuate around a trend line.
What is variability?
The environmental event that occurs immediately before a behavior.
What is an antecedent?
The process of transferring stimulus control from prompts to natural cues.
What is prompt fading?
Differential reinforcement procedure that reinforces a behavior physically impossible to perform simultaneously with the target behavior.
What is Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)?
The evidence-based training package consisting of instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback.
What is Behavioral Skills Training (BST)?
The degree to which data from two adjacent conditions share the same range of values.
What is overlap?
This assessment experimentally manipulates environmental variables to identify behavioral function.
What is a functional analysis?
Teaching examples and non-examples to establish stimulus control over a concept.
What is concept formation training?
The process of identifying variables that maintain problem behavior and designing treatment based on those variables.
What is function-based intervention?
This supervision strategy involves monitoring treatment integrity and providing corrective feedback when necessary.
What is performance monitoring?
This visual analysis component examines whether changes in data occur immediately following a phase change.
What is immediacy of effect?