Evidence-based or Pseudoscience
Short-lived enthusiasm for something that is not based on quality. A craze.
Fad
ABA stand for this discpline.
applied behavior analysis
Using spoken words, gestures, facial expressions, and symbols to convey or receive information (feelings, ideas, etc.) to or from another person.
communication
impaired understanding of other’s thoughts, intentions, motives, and behaviors
social cognition
Two broad categories of RRBs
lower-order and higher-order
These types of approaches rely on an experimental approach to show that something works.
Evidence-based, science-based, or empirical intervention.
ABA based interventions focus on changing this in order to change behavior.
the environment
coordination of attention between two people and an object; active shared experience
joint attention
Assessment must determine whether a deficit is due to one of two issues.
The client cannot do the skill or the client won't do the skill.
3 shared characterisitcs of all RRBs
behavior is repetitive, rigid, and invariant
Interventions that seek confirmation of an already accepted conclusion that are based on anecdotes and case studies.
pseudoscience
Four functions (reasons) of behavior
attention, tangible, escape, sensory
Norm-referenced assessments compare a client to:
a group of peers
3 common mistakes in developing social skills intervention
not doing an assessment, teaching at too high a level, not using explicit teaching techniques
3 questions to determine in RRB assessment.
what is the nature of the RRB, does the RRB have a negative impact on the person, why is the RRB occurring.
The type of research design that was used to show that facilitated communication is really the facilitator and not the client who is doing the communicating.
double blind study
The 7 properties (dimensions) of ABA
generality, applied, effective, technological, conceptually systematic, analytic, behavioral
A criterion-referenced communication assessment based on the verbal operants.
VB-MAPP
A personalized social skills strategy that involves presenting concepts in a brief story.
social stories
Intervention strategy used to increase variability in behavior.
lag schedule
Two other names for the pseudoscientific intervention known as facilitated communication.
rapid prompting method
spelling to communicate
The 5 principles of behavior that interventions are based on (antecedent and consequent principles)
reinforcement, punishment, extinction, stimulus control, motivating operations
PECS, iPad communication systems, and speech generating devices are this type of ACC system.
Selection-based system.
A social skills intervention that involves video demonstrations of the behavior.
video modeling
5 conditions of a FA
escape, attention, alone, tangible, play