Learning Principles
Desmond remained on task during the mini-lesson. The teacher bought Desmond a milkshake. Desmond remained on task more often during mini-lessons.
What is positive reinforcement?
Morgan engages in challenging behavior during independent work time and her teacher makes her sit in the hallway.
What is escape?
What is student, behavior, conditions, and criteria?
Record a tally every time a discrete behavior occurs.
What is event recording?
Reinforcing all behavior that is not the targeted challenging behavior.
What is differential reinforcement of other behavior?
Dora submitted her homework Monday-Thursday. On Friday, Dora's teacher told her she did not have to do homework over the weekend. Dora continued to submit her homework in the weeks following.
What is negative reinforcement?
Ted engages in challenging behavior when his teacher is working with other students. When he engages in challenging behavior his teacher assists him with his work and reprimands him for engaging in challenging behavior.
What is atttention?
The following objective is missing a component: Brian will request a break by raising his hand and asking the teacher aloud for a break for 4 out of 5 opportunities across the school week for four weeks.
What is the condition? (when challenging work is presented)
Present 5 preferred items. Remove the item the learner selected and present the remaining 4. Continue this process until all items have been selected.
What is a multiple stimulus without replacement preference assessment?
Provide conditioned reinforcers and student trades in conditioned reinforcers for a backup reinforcer.
Maureen's teacher caught her cheating on an assignment. Maureen's teacher took 50 points from her overall points. Maureen never cheated on an assignment again.
What is negative punishment?
Derek's timer for the computer sounds, indicating his computer time is over. Derek screams and hits the teacher when she cuts off the computer.
What is tangible?
The following objective is missing a component: The student will remain on task by keeping their eyes in the direction of the teacher or work for 20 sustained minutes across 3 out of 4 opportunities across 5 school days.
What is the student?
Divide the observation period into equal intervals and record whether the behavior is occuring at the end of the interval.
What is momentary time sampling?
Reinforcing a behavior that replaces the challenging behavior and provides the learner with a more prosocial way to request the reinforcer.
What is differential reinforcement of alternative behavior?
Maddie consistently answered questions that the teacher asked. The teacher praised Maddie in front of the group and told her she wished the other students were more like Maddie. Maddie stopped answering the teachers questions.
What is positive punishment?
Cora hops up from her desk and runs around the room. The teacher reprimands and runs after Cora. Cora giggles and keeps running occasionally looking back at the teacher.
What is attention?
The following objective is missing a component: Derek will properly channel his stress when in group settings with unfamiliar peers for 3 out of 4 opportunities across 5 school days.
What is a behavior that is observable, measurable, and objective?
An instrument designed to obtain quantitative information from informants.
What is a behavior rating scale?
These strategies are used to prevent challenging behavior. One example is providing choices.
What are antecedent interventions?
Dana cried every morning at drop off during the first week of school. Every morning her teacher would call her mom to come back to the classroom to console her. After the first week, Dana's teacher stopped calling her mom to come back to console Dana. Dana cried louder and for longer periods of time for a few days and then eventually no longer cried during morning drop off.
What is Extinction?
Darien taps his feet while working on independent work. This behavior is not socially maintained.
What is automatic/sensory?
The following objective is missing two components: Dawn will ask for a toy from her peer by signing "please" and pointing to the toy.
What is a hypothesis statement?
The student is not removed from the instructional setting but the student does not have access to reinforcers in the environment.
What is non-exclusion timeout procedures?