Reinforcement
This is the process of building rapport with someone by linking yourself to that person's preferred activities and interests.
What is pairing?
This is the meaning of what is commonly referred to as "ABC".
What is Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence?
These are the four functions of behavior.
What are escape, attention, automatic/sensory and access to tangibles?
This is the most intrusive way to prompt a student.
What is a physical prompt?
This is one of the six "booklets" in the AFLS assessment.
What are: Basic Skills, School Skills, Home Skills, Independent Living Skills, Vocational Skills, Community Participation?
Reinforcing desired behaviors and ignoring or redirecting undesired behavior describes this concept.
What is differential reinforcement?
This involves reinforcing successive approximations of a desired behavior until the full behavior is achieved. (Example: You want a student to write their name. You praise them for writing their first letter, then for writing two letters, then three letters, and finally rewarding them for their full name of four letters)
What is Shaping?
Behavior that functions to alleviate discomfort or increase stimulation.
Saying “Voices at a 0” is an example of a this prompt.
What is verbal?
This is the repetition of words or phrases spoken by someone else. (For example: A CBT asks a student to touch their nose. Instead of physically touching their nose, the student repeats the phrase “touch nose”)
What is echolalia?
Adding something to the environment to make a behavior more likely to occur again. (For example, giving a child a favorite toy after they complete a task).
What is positive reinforcement?
This is when a skill is demonstrated and maintained across different people, different settings and different stimuli.
What is generalization?
This is the function of this behavior: A student flops to the ground and screams when it is their turn for teacher table.
What is escape?
This technique gradually reduces the level, magnitude, or timing of support/cues that are used to help guide a person toward independence.
What is (prompt) fading?
What are three potential topics that could be taught in SEL?
What are ... the list goes on and on and on? ;)
This is when you provide praise immediately following a desired behavior, and use behavior-specific praise. (For example: "great job pushing in your chair" or "I appreciate this class working together and supporting each other's ideas")
What is verbal praise?
This is a systematic method that helps people learn new skills by providing different levels of support. It's similar to a ladder with each step providing the support a learner needs at that stage. The goal is to gradually reduce the support over time, allowing the learner to perform tasks independently.
What is prompting hierarchy?
This is the function of this behavior: A student elopes from your classroom and begins to smile and laugh when they see you running after them.
What is attention seeking?
An example of this prompt is a picture schedule.
What is visual prompt?
A student earns tokens and continuously works to earn slime multiple times throughout the day. By the end of the day, the student is displaying signs of a decrease in motivation to earn the slime. This decrease in motivation is likely due to ________.
What is satiation?
This is a pattern of when and how often rewards are given when positive behaviors occur.
What is a schedule of reinforcement?
This is the meaning of AFLS.
What is Assessment of Functional Living Skills?
This is the function of this behavior: A student begins to stomp their feet and cry when a peer beats them to their favorite book in the library.
What is tangible?
These are three prompting strategies in the prompting hierarchy.
What is physical, model, verbal, gestural, written?
This is a personalized plan of activities that can help people with sensory processing issues feel calm, alert and ready to learn. (examples of parts of this: deep pressure activities, jumping activities, swinging, brushing)
What is a sensory diet?