All About ABA
What is Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)?
It is the science of learning and behaviour that focuses on improving socially significant behaviours through evidence-based strategies.
What are the four main functions of behaviour?
Attention, Escape, Tangibles, Automatic
This process involves gradually removing prompts so the learner responds independently.
What is prompt fading?
ITs must protect client information and not share it with others without permission.
What is confidentiality?
What year did Laura and Tammy begin their partnership?
2008
What is positive reinforcement?
This occurs when a behaviour increases because something desirable is added after the behaviour.
A learner begins hitting their desk during math work. The therapist provides a short break from the task. The learner continues to hit their desk in the future. What may be the function?
What is escape?
What is shaping? Provide an example.
This teaching procedure involves reinforcing small steps toward a target behaviour.
A client’s parent asks the IT for advice about changing their child’s behaviour plan. What should the IT do?
Refer the parent to the BCBA or RBA.
True or False: Katherine has visited the following national parks: Grand Canyon, Yosemite and Grand Teton
False
Who is the person most commonly credited with founding ABA?
B.F. Skinner
A parent tells their child “no candy” at a vending machine (antecedent). The child screams, hits the machine, and falls to the floor (behavior). The parent buys a candy bar to stop the tantrum (consequence).
What is the difference between most-to-least prompting and least-to-most prompting?
Most-to-least: Start with the most intrusive prompt and fade.
Least-to-most: Start with the least intrusive prompt and increase if needed.
An IT begins babysitting for the family of a client they provide therapy to. What ethical issue may this create?
A multiple relationship.
Which member of clinical staff made the newspaper in a foreign country 20 years ago?
Anda
This ABA term refers to an environmental variable that changes the value of a reinforcer and alters the likelihood of a behaviour occurring.
What is a Motivating Operation (MO)?
This ABA process involves systematically manipulating environmental variables to identify the function of behaviour.
What is a Functional Analysis (FA)?
A therapist always gives the correct answer immediately after presenting the SD, even when the learner might know the answer. What problem may develop?
Prompt dependency
A parent offers an IT a $100 gift card at the end of the year to thank them for their work with their child.What ethical concern does this create?
Accepting gifts/potential conflict of interest.
Which member of clinical staff has a total of 5 degrees/certificates?
Sobia
In Relational Frame Theory, this concept refers to how the meaning or function of a stimulus changes based on its relationship with other stimuli.
What is transformation of stimulus function?”
This behaviour analyst developed the Practical Functional Assessment (PFA) and Skill-Based Treatment (SBT) approach to assessing and treating severe problem behaviour.
Who is Gregory Hanley?
What is backward chaining?
Backward chaining is a teaching procedure used to teach chained behaviours where the last step of the task is taught first, and earlier steps are gradually added.
An IT notices that a college placement student is always on their phone during a therapy session while the client is working. What is the most appropriate action for the IT to take?
The IT should address the concern appropriately and notify or consult the supervising BCBA or supervisor, ensuring that client care and professionalism are maintained.
Reading a text from a friend is an example of this verbal operant.
What is textual behavior?