Verbal Operants
A verbal behavior where a speaker has an MO for an item, activity, information that he or she wants. Provide an example
What is a mand?
This strategy involves differential reinforcement of successive approximations to a terminal behavior. Provide an example
What is shaping?
What living organisms say or do - has an effect on the environment.
What is behavior?
The 4 functions of behavior
What is access to tangibles, escape, attention, and automatic reinforcement?
Occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions. Provide an example.
What is positive reinforcement?
A form of verbal behavior where the speaker sees, hears, smells, tastes, something and then communicates about it. Provide an example
What is a tact?
This strategy involves teaching a behavior chain beginning with the first step: have the child complete the first step independently and prompt the remaining steps. Provide an example
What is forward chaining?
Establishing yourself as the ultimate reinforcer — the giver of all good things - to establish rapport. This should be built into every session.
What is pairing?
Pointing or using other gestures to indicate the correct response as you are presenting the instruction
What is a gestural prompt?
Negative reinforcement occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the _________ of a stimulus that ______the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions. Provide an example
What is removal and increases?
A form of verbal behavior where the speaker responds to another person's verbal behavior (like a conversation). Provide an example
What is an intraverbal?
The therapist contrives opportunities within natural environments to teach skills. Provide an example.
What is NET?
Using a skill in one situation and applying it to other similar, but different situations. Provide an example
What is generalization?
The most intrusive prompt. Provide an example.
What is full physical prompting?
Reinforcement is delivered after a set number of responses.
What is fixed ratio?
A verbal behavior where the speaker repeats the verbal behavior of another speaker. Must have a point-to-point correspondence and formal similarity - the verbal stimulus and response products match entirely. Provide an example.
What is an echoic?
A structured teaching technique that involves the therapist working 1-on-1 with the client - can be taught in various settings
What is DTT?
first/then contingency; a high-probability behavior is made contingent upon a lower-probability behavior, then the lower-probability behavior is more likely to occur. Provide an example.
What is Premack Principle? or What is Grandma's rule?
Calculating the number of times a behavior occurs in a specific time interval.
What is rate?
Reinforcement is delivered after an average number of responses.
What is variable ratio?
Evoked by written words (antecedent) and the response is a spoken word or sign language. There is point-to-point correspondence (the words match) but no formal similarities (SD and response product are not the same). Provide an example.
What is textual?
What is total task chaining?
An antecedent strategy; a method used prior to the event to set the stage for a desired response, or to reduce the likelihood of a challenging response. Provide an example.
What is priming?
What is an SD? or what is a discriminative stimulus?
Reinforcing a target behavior while withholding reinforcement from an unwanted behavior. Provide an example.
What is differential reinforcement?