Module 17: Which Comes First? Changing the Environment to Change Behavior
Strategies used to modify an antecedent stimulus in the environment or routine in order to reduce interfering or disruptive behaviors and increase the use of more appropriate behaviors
What is Antecedent-Based Interventions (ABI)?
A procedure in which reinforcement of a previously rewarded interfering behavior is discontinued or withheld in order to decrease or eliminate the behavior
What is an extinction?
When a person’s behavior leads to a favorable outcome without the involvement of another person, thus increasing the probability that behavior will occur again.
What is a primary reinforcement?
Events or conditions that are present right before the interfering behavior occurs
What are antecedent stimulus?
The increase in frequency, or how often the behavior occurs, duration, or how long the behavior lasts, and/or intensity or how intense or powerful the behavior is of the interfering behavior when implementing the extinction procedure
What is an extinction burst?
Child-selected activities, routines, and additional learning experiences
What are the three common opportunities for teaching?
Arranging the environment, changing the schedule/routine, using preferred items and activities, altering instruction, etc.
What are some antecedent-based interventions?
When the function is identified as attention seeking, the team might ignore the interfering behavior BUT not the client itself especially if they can potentially hurt themselves
What is withholding attention?
Something is given or added after the response occurs and increases the likelihood that the behavior or response will occur again.
What is positive reinforcement?
The goal of this strategy is to include highly preferred items within these activities so that individuals are motivated to participate and are no longer prompted to engage in interfering behaviors.
What does it mean to use preferred items and activities?
Reappearance of behavior even though it has not been reinforced
What is spontaneous recovery?
Self-help or self care skills, life skills, academic skills, and vocational skills
What are the 4 skills that can be used for chaining?
An individual may spin his pencil on his desk and may not complete his work, or another individual may play with her saliva which may cause her to become unengaged
What is an example of Stereotypy?
This addresses interfering behaviors that serve a sensory function. The sensory input that an individual receives and that is reinforcing an interfering behavior is prevented.
What is sensory extinction?
A meal, new activity, when the activity is done with minute intervals, when grandma comes to visit, and the end of the day, the week, or an event
What are somethings that priming can refer to?