ABA Terminology
Appropriate behavior that serves the same function as the target behavior.
Replacement Behavior
When describing a behavior, you must make sure you describe it in what two ways?
What is Objective and Measurable
Name the functions of behavior
What is Escape, Attention, Sensory, Tangibles
The client engages in throwing paper. The RBT teaches the client to throw the paper into the trash like a basketball. This is an example of what?
What is DRA
It is time to conduct DTT with Sally. She does not appear motivated for any of her normally preferred toys. It is time to do what?
What is a Preference Assessment
Target behavior continues to occur in relevant situations after trainings
What is Maintenance
What is wrong with this statement: The client was sad and escalated to a behavior. IT was a huge behavior and it lasted a while.
What is... We don't talk about feelings. Sad is not Objective or Measurable. The "behavior" is not described and the duration is not listed. No antecedent or consequence is listed
During a non-preferred game, the client engages in nail biting right before each time the client has a turn. This is an example of...
What is Automatic... Also known as?
The client engages in physical aggression during nonpreferred activities. The RBT teaches the client "quiet hands" during nonpreferred activities. This is an example of...
What is DRI
This is an increase in the frequency of responding when an extinction procedure is initially implemented...
What is Extinction Burst
This term describes reinforcing successive approximations of a behavior
Shaping
This type of data collection involves looking at the impact of the behavior on the environment.
What is Permanent Product Recording
Events that occur immediately after a behavior...
What are.. Consequences
What are the schedules of reinforcement?
What is VR, VI, FR, FI
You start your car and hear an annoying sound. You buckle your seatbelt and the sound stops. Next time you drive, you buckle your seatbelt right away. this is because of what principle...
What is Negative Reinforcement
This term means that we stop providing the reinfrocer that is maintaining the behavior - for example if the behavior is escape maintained we should avoid letting the student get out of a task, or if the behavior occurs to get attention, then we should ignore it
What is Extinction
Data collection is important to find out:
How often the behavior occurs, How long the behavior lasts, and How forcefully the behavior is expressed
John is hungry, Mom says, "dinner time," John runs to the dining room and he receives dinner. What is the SD?
What is: Mom saying "dinner time"
What is a schedule of reinforcement?
What is: Schedules that tells you when to provide reinforcement
Preference assessments do the...
What is Determine what motivates our learners, use items and activities within teaching to determine what to utilize as reinforcers and Increase responding
A clear, understandable description of what's to be observed and measured, such that different people taking or interpreting data will do so consistently
What is Operational Definition
These are ways in which an RBT can prepare to collect data:
What is: define target behavior, have materials ready, identify when/what you are observing, communicate with team
Your client continuously elopes from the room whenever demands are placed. The RBT then adds doorknob covers to prevent elopement from the room. This type of intervention is called...
What is Antecedent Intervention
Tim swears multiple times during a session. In order to decrease this, his therapist provides him praise when he is not swearing and ignores swearing. What procedure is being ued?
What is DRO..
These are the roles of an RBT
What is: implementation of intervention plans, assist in the assessment of clients, take and enter data, follow the ethical guidelines of RBT through the BACB