Measurement
Assessment
Reinforcement
Motivating Operations
ABA Terms
100

The five forms of continuous measurement are:

Duration, rate, frequency, inter-response time and latency.

100

Paired choice preference assessments are also known as: 

Forced choice.
100

What is the definition of reinforcement?

A behavior is more likely to occur in the future.

100

What is motivating in that moment and what is aversive is known as what?

Motivating operations.

100

Reinforcing closer approximations of a terminal end goal.

Shaping.

200

Some instances of the response in this form of measurement may not be recorded.

Discontinuous measurement.

200

Deprivation, immediacy, size and contingency are the four components of:

The principals of reinforcer effectiveness.

200
Food, water, sleep and air are all an example of what?

Primary or unconditioned reinforcers.

200

Beyond satisfaction; the more of something that the child has had, the less motivating the item will be to the child.

Satiation

200

A procedure for decreasing problem behaviors in which reinforcement is contingent on the absence of the problem behavior occurring during specific time intervals and is withheld if the problem behavior is exhibited during that time interval.  

DRO.

300

Specified intervals are set, and the observer records whether the behavior is occurring at the end of the interval.

Momentary Time Sampling.

300

Asking the learner what they want to learn for is what type of preference assessment?

Interview with learner.

300

Removing something immediately following a behavior that increases the future likelihood of that behavior occurring again, is what?

Negative reinforcement.

300

Environmental variable that temporarily decreases the value of a reinforcer.

Abolishing Operations.

300

When reinforcement is delivered each time the target behavior is displayed.

Continuous Reinforcement Schedule.

400

The amount the behavior occurs during the observation time, is what?

Rate.

400

The reinforcer should only be delivered after the desired behavior has occurred.

Contingency. 

400

A secondary reinforcer is also known as what?

A conditioned reinforcer.

400

Up to a limit, the greater the time without the reinforcer, the more effective the reinforcer will be for the child.

Deprivation.

400

Knowing that a pit-bull, dalmatian and a chihuahua are all dogs is known as what?

Stimulus Generalization.

500

A therapist asks the learner to clean up their toys before transitioning. When the therapist turns back around, they see all the toys have been put away. What procedure is this?

Permant Product Recording.

500

These are often used when trying to identify problem behaviors or assess skill sets and to understand the magnitude of the behavior and are typically more effective at identifying problem behaviors or current skill sets.

Direct Assessment.

500

If a learner pretends to fall asleep during group, every two minutes, the therapist will give the learner attention or praise. What procedure is the therapist implementing? 

Non-contingent reinforcement. 

500

What is establishing operations?

An environmental variable that temporarily increases the value of a reinforcer.

500

Matching a toy banana to a picture of a banana in a field of five is known as what?

VP-MTS.