ABA Ethics
Prompting Strategies
Problem Behaviors
Verbal Operants
100

A mixing of two or more of an RBT’s roles (e.g., professional and personal) with a client, stakeholder, supervisor, coworker, or someone closely associated with or related to the client.

What is multiple/dual relationships?

100

A teaching method that includes prompting before the child is able to make a mistake.

What is errorless learning?

100

A strategy that is implemented before a difficult situation is presented to reduce the likelihood that the child will engage in problem behavior.

What is antecedent strategy?

100

This is the verbal operant that is typically taught first and includes indicating wants and needs.

What is manding?

200

Treating every individual with profound respect for their inherent worth and individuality, protecting their rights, and valuing their autonomy, involving creating an ethical environment where clients feel empowered and seen.

What is client dignity?

200
A prompt that includes moving the stimuli closer.

What is positional prompt?

200
This is a faulty strategy that includes offering preferred items with no criteria while a child is engaged in problem behavior to get them to stop; this strategy does not teach new replacement skills.

What is bribery?

200

This verbal operant includes vocally answering questions asked. 

What is intraverbal? 

300

The legal agreement by a parent or guardian to a child's therapy.

What is consent?

300

The four steps of error correction.

What is error, correction, transfer, and return (ECTR)?

300

This is a strategy utilized when a child engages in problem behavior which often includes waiting for them to calm down (offset) and prompting functional communication.

What is consequence strategy?

300

This operant includes following a direction without a model.

What is listener responding/ receptive?

400

A patient's voluntary participation in treatment.

What is assent?

400

A prompting strategy by which the RBT continuously delays a prompt to encourage the patient to respond independently.

What is progressive time/prompt delay?

400

This strategy includes reminding a patient of the expectation in place before presenting a difficult situation.

What is priming?

400

This is the SD for the target "Imitation: Clap Hands".

What is "Do this"?

500

A term coined by Hanley which indicates the presence of Assent, a patient's motivation, and a patient's readiness to learn.

What is Happy, Relaxed, and Engaged?

500

A prompting strategy that acts upon the stimulus presented rather than the response of the client.

What is stimulus prompt?

500

A behavioral strategy that includes changing a task to be easier or breaking a task into component skills.

What is task modification?

500

This is a verbal operant that must be point-to-point.

What is imitation/echoic?