The ABCs & Functions
This letter in the ABC contingency represents what happens immediately before a behavior occurs.
What is the Antecedent?
This process involves adding a stimulus following a behavior that increases the future likelihood of that behavior.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
This is the process of breaking down a complex skill (like washing hands) into smaller, teachable steps.
What is a Task Analysis?
This occurs when a behavior that was previously reinforced is no longer reinforced, eventually causing the behavior to stop.
What is Extinction?
This federal law protects the privacy of a student’s educational records.
What is FERPA?
If a child screams to get a cookie and the parent gives them the cookie, the function of the screaming is likely this.
What is Tangible (or Access)?
This specific intervention involves teaching an alternative, communicative response to replace a problem behavior.
What is Functional Communication Training (FCT)?
In this type of chaining, the BHP completes every step of the task analysis except the last one, which the client performs to earn reinforcement.
What is Backward Chaining?
This is the predictable, temporary increase in the frequency or intensity of a behavior immediately after extinction is implemented.
What is an Extinction Burst?
Under HIPAA, PHI stands for this.
What is Protected Health Information?
This function refers to behavior that occurs because it feels good or relieves physical discomfort, independent of social mediation.
What is Automatic (Sensory)?
In Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA), you withhold reinforcement for the problem behavior and provide it for this.
What is a specific alternative/appropriate behavior?
This chaining method involves teaching the very first step of the task analysis first, then the second, and so on.
What is Forward Chaining?
When a behavior that was successfully extinguished suddenly reappears after some time has passed, it is called this.
What is Spontaneous Recovery?
If you are discussing a client in a public elevator and use their full name, you have likely committed this.
What is a HIPAA violation (or Privacy Breach)?
This is the "C" in the ABC model, which determines whether a behavior will increase or decrease in the future.
What is Consequence?
This term describes the process of building a rapport with a client by associating yourself with highly preferred items or activities.
What is Pairing?
Unlike forward or backward chaining, this method involves the client practicing every step of the task analysis during every session, with prompting as needed.
What is Total Task Chaining (or Total Task Presentation)?
If a client’s screaming is maintained by attention, extinction would involve doing this when they scream.
What is withholding all attention (planned ignoring)?
True or False: If a parent requests to see their child's daily data sheets in a school setting, FERPA generally allows this.
What is True?
A client engages in property destruction to get out of doing math homework. This behavior is maintained by this function.
What is Escape (Avoidance)?
You are using this type of differential reinforcement when you reinforce any behavior other than the problem behavior during a specific time interval.
What is DRO (Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior)?
You might choose Backward Chaining over Forward Chaining for this primary reason.
What is it provides immediate access to the "natural" reinforcer/completion of the task?
Extinction should almost always be paired with this other procedure to ensure the client has a functional way to get their needs met.
What is Differential Reinforcement (or FCT)?
This is the primary difference between HIPAA and FERPA regarding "where" they apply.
What is HIPAA applies to healthcare/clinical settings, while FERPA applies to educational/school settings?