MEASUREMENT
Paper, pen, clickers, counters, and your cellphone may all be required to facilitate this.
Data Collection
This document may include demographic data, potential target behavior, medical information, school history, probes, and known skills.
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
George throws his pencil whenever asked to do homework because in the past this has resulted in the removal of the work. In regard to throwing his pencil, removal of the work is this type of consequence.
Negative Reinforcement
During a functional assessment, the BCBA notices that every time Stevie cries, this results in his parents rushing to his side and hugging him. The BCBA writes this as the hypothesized function of behavior.
Attention
Speaking about a client privately, allowing privacy when toileting, and using age appropriate interventions are excellent ways to preserve client ______.
Dignity
Jesse engages in SIB every time he is denied access to the television. Each time this occurs, you tally one mark on your data sheet representing this continuous measurement.
Frequency
Anything a living organism does that can be measured and observed.
Behavior
Every time John asks for candy, he receives candy. John is on this type of reinforcement schedule.
Continuous (FR1) – fixed # of responses
In the past, Mike’s spitting has resulted in escape. Mike’s BCBA now only reinforces mands for break, and places spitting on extinction. This is an example of this differential reinforcement procedure.
Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA)
Behavior analysis service delivery, parent training, and proper session documentation are all responsibilities of this role.
Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)
A client makes loud vocal statements frequently. To record this, you divide the session into short intervals. If the behavior occurs at any point during this interval, you record an occurrence. What discontinuous measurement procedure are you utilizing?
Partial-interval recording
In this type of preference assessment, the subject is given free access to stimuli and time allocated to each stimulus that is measured.
Free Operant
Paul used to complete his homework when given food contingent on completion. Paul’s behavior analyst paired praise with delivery of food, and over time, Paul began to complete his homework contingent on verbal praise alone. Praise is now functioning as this type of reinforcer.
Conditioned (learned)
When implementing extinction, it is always wise to plan for this momentary increase in frequency/ magnitude of problem behavior.
Extinction burst
Being sure of what you’ve observed, mentioning it to your supervisor and making an anonymous call to DCF (Dept of Children & Families) are all important considerations when reporting abuse or neglect, because you are a _______.
Mandated Reporter
Billy’s mom frequently alters the length of sessions. To adjust for this, when graphing his target behavior you calculate the occurrences divided by time, converting the data to this continuous measurement.
Rate
Behavior analysts define behavior by topography (how they look) and always write their definitions in observable and ________ terms.
Measurable
A BCaBA is teaching a new skill to a client. He begins by physically guiding the client, then fades to a light physical prompt, then to a gestural prompt, then to a verbal prompt. The BCaBA is using this type of prompting hierarchy.
Most-to-least
A BCBA is conducting an FBA. His client has a limited communicative repertoire, and frequently claps his hands. The clapping frequently results in his parents playing with him and many other times they give him food. He also claps frequently when no one is around. The BCBA is unlikely to list this as a hypothesized function of behavior.
Escape
During your session, you sit your client at a table. You rapidly progress through trials, interspersing known responses with new responses. This is an example of this type of teaching.
Discrete Trial Training (DTT)
You are measuring duration for a client’s tantrums. Duration relates directly to which Fundamental Property of Behavior?
Temporal extent
You present Freddy an array of stimuli and allow him to choose one. Each time he chooses, you put the item back in the array and allow him to choose again. You are conducting this type of preference assessment.
Multiple Stimulus with Replacement (MSW)
Training a skill in multiple environments, with multiple exemplars and incorporating common stimuli (e.g. the same stimuli used at home) can lead to this.
Generalization
A student frequently elopes from a classroom. The teacher moves the student away from the door, places preferred stimuli near the student’s desk, and relocates her own desk nearer to the door. These measures reduce the likelihood of elopement occurrences and are all examples of this.
Antecedent Manipulation
This man is responsible for Radical Behaviorism and is generally well regarded in our field.
B.F. Skinner (coined “Operant Conditioning”)