Abbreviations
Key Terms
Concepts & Principles
Reinforcement
Skill Acquisition
100

Two words for EO

What is Establishing Operation?

100

Focuses on behaviour that is important to the individual and society (1-word)

What is Applied?

100
Removal of a stimulus following a response that results in a weakening (decrease likelihood) of that response in the future (2-words)
What is Negative Reinforcement
100

Process by which a client's preferences are determined (2-words)

What is Preference Assessment

100

A learner now longer requires help to complete a skill independently (1 word)

What is Mastery.

200

Four words for BCBA

What is Board Certified Behavior Analyst?

200

Behaviour can be counted or timed and is therefore _______ (1-word).

What is measurable?

200

A sudden, temporary increase in the target behaviour at the start of an extinction procedure (2-words)

What is Extinction Burst

200

MSW

Multiple-Stimulus-With Replacement

200

The spread of the effects of reinforcement to new, untrained behavior or environments without additional training (1 word)

What is Generalization.

300

S-R-S

What is Stimulus-Response-Stimulus?

300

Applied, Behavioral, Analytical, Technological, Effective, Conceptually systematic, Generalization.

What are the 7 Dimensions or characteristics of ABA?

300

A change in the environment that can affect behaviour?

What is a Stimulus.

300

Specifies the response requirements for earning reinforcement (3-words)

What is Schedule of Reinforcement.

300

Method that enhances DTT by prompting correct response immediately after the instruction (2-words)

What is Errorless Teaching.

400

The DSM-V

What is the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders - 5th Edition.

400

The amount of time between an antecedent stimulus and a response.

What is Latency

400

A description of a target behaviour that indicates what the response looks like (topography of response), when we will begin/end measurement, what responses will be counted as "correct" or "incorrect" (2-words)

What is an Operational Definition.

400

Schedule of reinforcement in which the reinforcer is delivered for the first response after a time period that varies around some average value (2 words)

What is Variable Interval schedule of reinforcement

400

A plan that lists what needs to be taught and how to teacher it (3-words)

What is Skill Acquisition Plan.

500
DTT

What is Discrete Trial Training?

500

Cumulative amount of time an individual engages in the target behaviour (2-words)

What is Total Duration.

500

Due to it's past history of reinforcement in its presence, it "signals" the availability of reinforcement for a specific response (2-words). 

What is Discriminative Stimulus (SD).

500
The four parameters of reinforcement

What is:

1. Quality

2.  Immediacy

3. Magnitude

4. Duration

500

Two types of generalization

What is Stimulus and Response.