Best Practices
This strategy involves differential reinforcments of successive approximations to a terminal behavior.
What is shaping?
The learner runs away when you say “clean up”
What is escape maintained behavior?
A plan to decrease maladaptive behaviors
What is a Behavioral Intervention Plan (BIP)?
What is this an example of? : A child is crying in the store. His mother gives him a candy bar and he stops crying. Now he cries every time they go to the store.
What is Positive Reinforcement.
_____________ decreases the effectiveness of a reinforcer due to having too much of it.
What is satiation?
A technician transitions the learner to their scheduled lunch time, the learner pushes the food away indicating they do not want to eat. What should the technician do?
Do NOT force the learner to sit and eat lunch.
The technician becomes a jungle gym during session
What is attention maintained behavior?
Strategies to use when there is no clear intervention/BIP for a new situation happening during your session
What are best practices?
What is this an example of? : A child is asked to clean his room. He asks his mom if he can do it later. His mom says yes and the task is taken away. Now the child asks to take a delay the task more often.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
_____________ increases the effectiveness of a reinforcer due to having limited amounts of it.
What is deprivation?
A 5-year-old learner follows an instruction correctly. The RBT immediately gives specific praise: “Nice job cleaning up your toys!”
What best practice for praise is being used?
What is behavior specific praise?
The learner only tantrums when toy car is removed
What is tangible maintained behavior?
Reinforcement strategy used when the learner is praised and provided with reinforcement when they engage in a speaking level voice instead of a yelling voice
What is differential reinforcement of alternative behaviors (DRA)?
What is this an example of? : A child refused to do his chore so his father took away his Xbox for a week. Now he never refuses to do his chores.
What is Negative Punishment.
Behaviors to be improved in a behavior modification program
What are targeted behaviors?
Or
What are maladaptive behaviors?
Physically intervening as soon as the client begins to emit the problem behavior to prevent or block the completion of the response.
What is response blocking?
The learner engages in behavior even when alone
What is sensory maintained behavior?
Strategy used as waiting to reinforce the learner until they emit 0 instances of maladaptive behavior in the interval.
What is differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO)?
What is this an example of? : Dan was speeding in a school zone. He got pulled over and received a $300 ticket. Now he never speeds in a school zone.
What is Positive Punishment.
Stopping the reinforcement or escape contingency for a previously reinforced response causes the response frequency to decrease.
What is extinction?
Your learner has an increase in maladaptive behaviors with you, than any other technician. You say it is because you "push" them more than other technicians - however it becomes aware that you are the only one not following the behavior plan and procedures.
What is treatment drift?
A learner engages in self-injurious behavior (SIB) during both high-demand tasks and when left alone with no materials. The behavior results in task removal when demands are present, but also occurs without any social consequences.
What is multiply maintained maladaptive behavior? What is automatic and escape maintained behavior?
A learner engages in attention-maintained yelling. Staff have been ignoring the behavior, but the yelling has increased in intensity and frequency over the past few days.
What is an extinction burst?
What are the 2 types of reinforcement used?: Cameron volunteered to do an extra chore at home. His mom thanked him for doing the extra chore and then told him he didn't have to do any chores for a week. As a result, Cameron volunteers to do chores more often.
What is positive and negative reinforcement.
A condition where the individual does not respond to a discriminative stimulus (SD) unless they receive prompts. This is a result of poor teaching!
What is prompt dependency?