ABA Basics
These are the two types of reinforcement.
What is positive and negative reinforcement?
A count of every instance of behavior.
What is frequency?
The most likely function of a student refusing to do work
What is escape/avoidance?
What happens in the environment immediately BEFORE a behavior occurs
What is antecedent?
ABA stands for ___________________.
What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
These are the two types of punishment.
What is positive and negative punishment?
The length of time a behavior occurs.
What is duration?
The acronym for the four functions of behavior
What is SEAT?
Honoring _____ communication as often as possible can increase a student's ability to state their wants and needs.
What is functional communication?
This type of assessment measures a students interests/preferences
What is a preference assessment?
When something is ADDED in the environment immediately after a behavior and the future frequency of that response increases
what is positive reinforcement?
Type of data collection where you document what happens immediately before, during, and after a behavior
What is ABC data?
Patricia twirls her hair throughout the day including when she is doing work, engaging in preferred activities, is with other people or is alone. The function is....
What is sensory/automatic?
These are effective nonverbal tools for giving directions/prompts to students. For example, a written schedule or cue card.
What are visuals?
There are _____ number of steps to developing instructional control.
What is 7?
When a previously reinforced behavior is no longer reinforced.
What is extinction?
Time sampling is a form of ______ measurement.
What is discontinuous?
Thomas screams whenever his mother is on the phone or is talking with someone else. To get him to be quiet, she stops what she is doing and goes over to him. When she does this, the screaming stops. The function is...
What is attention?
Having a student engage in preferred tasks prior to presenting nonpreferred tasks to gain ______
What is behavior momentum?
Sometimes the behavior without being reinforced, will reappear after the extinction procedure is put in place and the behavior has decreased.
What is spontaneous recovery?
When something is ADDED to the environment immediately after a behavior and the future frequency of that behavior DECREASES.
What is positive punishment?
The time it takes an individual to engage in a target behavior after a direction is given.
What is latency?
True or False: A behavior can serve multiple different functions
What is TRUE?
The "fancy" term for first/then statements.
What is the Premack principle?
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