Data Collection
ABA Techniques
Functions of Behavior
Prompting
100

Katya opens her “Best in Show” magazine and begins to read to herself about the latest dressage techniques. Her RBT Gabbyrella starts the timer. When Katya stands up to go look out the window 2 mins, 15 seconds later, Gabbyrella stops the timer and records 2 mins and 15 seconds in Rethink.

What is duration?

100

“Times up. The dishes are waiting” Kayla says to Rob. Rob keeps playing video games. Kayla comes by and says it’s again. Rob presses okay to start a new game. Kayla looks at home but Rob keeps playing and avoids, giving her iContact. Eventually, Kayla walks away and starts the dishes. 

What is extinction?

100

Mike tells Allison he has the day off. Allison smiles and tells Mike to mow the grass. Mike immediately "remembers" he has a client and leaves the house. He goes to the movies until it is too dark outside to now the grass. 

What is  ESCAPE?

100

"Take a swig". Lora takes Mike's hands and puts them on the tequila bottle, then assists as he lifts the bottle to his mouth and finishes the bottle before she uses his hands to place the bottle back down at. Lora is using...

What is physical prompting ?

200

RBT Sim starts a timer after the teacher says “Write your name on top.” Sim watches Ethan as he plays with his eraser, twists his hair, takes a flexing selfie, goes to sharpen his pencil and then finally Ethan put his pencil to the paper to write the letter “E”. Sim stopped the timer when the pencil touched the paper and then recorded 2 mins 17 seconds in Rethink.

What is latency?

200

Bethe stands behind Mike as Mike watches the iPad. Mike sees a man on the iPad doing push-ups. Bethe watches Mike as he does pushups and then follows the instructions provided by the man on the video to start burpees. Bethe uses least to most prompting to keep Mike following the actions on the video.

What is video modeling?

200
Bethe sees Stephanie has baked cookies for her son's school. Bethe pinches Stephanie and when Stephanie walks away to tell Mike, Bethe grabs a cookie eats it, and then pretend like nothing happened.

What is tangible (access)?

200

Mr. Bob tells Giovanna to make a copy. Giovanna looks around the room but seems confused to Mr. Bob points to the copy machine. Giovanna then sees the copier and makes all the copies needed. Mr. Bob's prompt was ...

What ia gestural prompting?

300

Mally has a tantrum. Her RBT, Liana, writes down what happened before the tantrum, during the tantrum and after the tantrum. Liana knows that doing so can identify possible triggers for the tantrum as well as maintaining variables.

What is ABC data?

300

Sarah’s wife Maria asks her to cook chicken for dinner. Sarah, the vegetarian “casually” mentions to Maria that there’s a new martini menu dropping tonight at their favorite karaoke spot. Maria’s jaw drops and she jumps in the shower to get ready to head out for dinner and singing… never mentioning the chicken again!

What is redirection?

300

Sam gets a sexy new Invicta watch with a leather strap. When Sam sits at his desk, he sniffs the watch. 

What is sensory (automatic?)

300

While holding the cold and frothy margarita in front of Kayla, Sam makes the sound "mar" which Kayla picks up on and says the word 'Margarita" which Sam then provides to Kayla immediately. The type of prompt that Sam provided 

What is a partial verbal prompt?

400

After Mason has de-escalated and is safely sitting with his girlfriend Nana on the couch, his RBT Kayla walks into his bedroom and records the number of broken items scattered around the room.

What is a permanent product?

400

Stephanie tells Sophie “Pin the Taylor Swift tickets on the cork board.” As soon as Sophie reaches into her purse to get the tickets Stephanie guides her toward the cork board and points to the board. Sophie pins the tickets up just as instructed.

What is errorless learning?

400

Yanitza hits decline on her phone when Lora calls her. 

What is escape?

400

`After watching Sim reach for the smoked fish dip and miss it two times in a row, Liana moves the buffalo chicken dip and the artichoke dip away from him as she positions the smoked fish dip right by his hand. Liana is using...

What is a positional prompt?

500

The RBT Sam watches Tracy flap her hands for what seems like an eternity. When the timer buzzes, Sam looks up at Tracy who has just put her hands in her lunchbox to take out a piece of carrot cake for snack. Sam marks a minus on Rethink.

What is momentary time sampling?

500

Liana gets in the car. Her chai latte is so good, and Bey is bumping through the speakers so Liana starts to jam out. But then that annoying ding ding ding is interrupting her flow. So she puts her seatbelt on. The annoying chime stops dinging and Liana drives away to her nail appt. After her nail appt Liana gets in the car and puts her seabelt on IMMEDIATELY because she does not want to hear that ding ding ding sound again!.

500

Ethan plays his music loudly. The cute neighbor comes over to complain but does not stay.  Ethan makes it louder. The neighbor comes over and is so frustrated that she can't study so she tells Ethan that she will take him out to dinner later if he just turns the music down now. Ethan's behavior function is probably...

What is attention? (possibly with a secondary function delayed access)

500

In 3 years when Sam's niece Rylee Parker is starting to talk, Sam holds a cookie in front of Rylee's face. Rylee says, "Coo", and Sam says "I want cookie please". Rylee looks at the cookie and then says... "I want cookie please". Sam smiles and gives her the cookie. Sam's prompting strategy was...

What is verbal modeling?