Behavior vs. Response
A single instance or occurrence of a specific behavior
Response
Are punishment and reinforcement considered antecedent events or consequences?
consequences
During this environmental change, stimuli are added to the environment
Positive consequence
A stimulus presented as a consequence and is responsible for the subsequent increase in responding.
Reinforcer
The speaker repeats the verbal behavior of another speaker
Echoic
Others can see public behavior, whereas private behavior is only accessible or identifiable to _____.
Identify the antecedent and the consequence:
Claire was playing with her brother when he accidentally knocked her juice out of her hands. Claire took this personally and started to hit her brother with a closed fist four times in the back. Her brother started to scream and their mother put Claire in a time out. Claire cried for 14 minutes until she was allowed to rejoin the activity.
Antecedent: brother knocked juice out of Claire's hands
Consequence: time out
What is delivered after a behavior and increases the future frequency of that behavior over time?
Reinforcement
A signal that reinforcement is available
SD (Discriminative Stimulus)
A child hears a firetruck and says "firetruck!". Staff praises client.
Tact
What do we call the interaction of muscles and glands with the environment/ everything that people do?
Behavior
Any environmental conditions or stimulus changes that occur after the behavior
Consequence
During this environmental change, stimuli are withdrawn from the environment
Negative reinforcement relates to ____ whereas positive punishment relates to pain.
relief
Answering questions, filling in the blanks, conversations
Intraverbals
Is pain a public or private behavior?
private
Actions, events, or circumstances that occur before the behavior
Antecedent
This occurs after a behavior and decreases the future frequency of behavior over time
punishment
The surroundings and/or conditions in which an individual lives and interacts, which includes all stimuli and the individual(s)
environment
Requesting for things that they want (controlled by MO)
Mand
How do we describe behavior?
- Objective
- Topography
- Clear, concise, and complete
What are the four functions of behavior?
SEAT
Sensory (Automatic)
Escape (Avoidance)
Attention
Tangibles (Access)
Identify the correct consequence:
Judy picks her nose during class and the teacher reprimands her in front of her classmates. Judy doesn't pick her nose in class again.
Positive Punishment
What is Topography?
The physical form or shape of a behavior, which states what happened void of value, opinion, or expectation.
What the behavior LOOKS like.
Michael asks his brother to shut his door on the way out. What verbal operant is his brother doing?
Following directions. Listener Responding.