Behavior
Anything an organism does
What is behavior?
Withholding reinforcement
What is extinction?
A behavior or skill is gradually taught by reinforcing successive approximations
What is shaping?
Any instance of hitting, slapping, kicking, or biting (including attempts)
what is aggression?
The count or amount of times a behavior occurs
What is frequency?
If a dead person can do it, it's not a behavior
What is the dead man's test?
A consequence that increase a behavior
What is reinforcement?
Breaking a complex skill into smaller, teachable units, in a sequential order
What is a task analysis?
Any instance of permanently altering an object from its intended form
What is property disruption
How long a behavior occurs for
What is duration?
Behaviors that can only be observed by one person
What is a private event?
Reinforcing behaviors we want to see and withholding reinforcement from behaviors we don't want to see
What is differential reinforcement?
Verbal --> Gestures --> Partial Physical --> Full Physical
What is a prompting hierarchy?
What is elopement?
The A in ABC
What is antecedent?
Behaviors that can be observed by multiple people
What is a public event?
A slight increase before a behavior decreases
Extinction burst
Total Task, Backwards, Forward
Any instance of crying and above conversation level vocals and two or more of the following behaviors: aggression, SIB, property disruption, and elopement
What is tantrum?
A spot to find topographical definitions of each behavior
The two reasons we engage in behavior
What is 'to get something or get away from something'?
A physical description of what a behavior looks like
What is topography?
The extent that a learner continues to preform a target behavior when the intervention is removed
Maintenance
Begins a minute after any response that does not match the instructions provided by staff
What is task avoidance?
An acquisition technique that teaches how to identify numbers
Receptive identification