Verbal Behavior
A mand is a form of verbal behavior that is controlled by deprivation, satiation, or what is now called motivating operations (MO)
What is mand?
Addie asks for a snack but her mom says she has to wait until dinner to eat. Addie throws a tantrum. What is the likely function of the behavior?
What is access?
Avery engages in vocal scripting behaviors. His therapist tallies the total number of occurrences of this behavior during the ABA session. What type of data collection his this?
What is frequency?
Sarah is talking with a client's parent after an ABA session. The client's mother asks if Sarah could babysit the client this Saturday for pay so she and her spouse can go to a concert. This is the reason that Sarah has to so "no".
What is avoid dual relationships?
Addy is starting with a new client today. She doesn't know what activities/ toys this client is interested in. This is the first thing that she should do in her session.
What is preference/ reinforcement assessment?
When a learner labels items in the environment
What is a tact?
It time for Christian to go to bed. Suddenly he needs to go to the bathroom, get a drink of water, needs a hug from mom, etc. What is the function of this behavior?
What is escape?
Samantha collected the total number of times Edward slapped the table over three separate 1 hour observation periods. Afterwards she calculated the total number of times Edward slapped the table per hour. What type of data collection does this describe?
What is rate?
When discussing a Jacob's problem behaviors with his father at the end of a therapy session, Austin encourages Jacob to play with the trains while he discreetly discusses these behaviors with Jacob's father. This is the reason that Austin does this.
What is client dignity?
A therapist provides a "star" token on average every 5 times the learner responds correctly. After 5 tokens, the learner can exchange the tokens for a reinforcer from the reinforcer menu.
What is variable ratio schedule of reinforcement?
Another word for vocal imitation
What is echoic?
Easton is at the park with his mom. He runs through the park laughing. No demands have been placed. What is the function of this behavior?
What is sensory?
Repeatability, Temporal Extent, Temporal Locus
What are the three basic, measurable dimensional quantities of behavior?
The children in the ABA classroom make art projects that include a picture of themselves. Someone in the marketing department sees your client's art project and wants to post it on the company Facebook page. This is the reason that this would not be acceptable.
What is violates professional conduct code of maintaining professional boundaries? BONUS: What else does this violate?
Rodrigo is teachinga client to wash her hands. Rodrigo completes all of the steps to washing hands for his client using hand-over-hand prompting, but on the final step, he uses prompting and reinforcement until his client is independently completing the final step. When that step is mastered he begins teaching the second to last and continues to take data on the last step as "maintenance". He continues in this manner, moving backwards in the chain until the client is independently completing the entire task.
What is backward chaining?
Child is asked at dinner time, “What did you eat at lunch?”
Child says, “Apple” (no apple is in sight)
Dad says, “I am so glad you ate your apple! You made a healthy choice!”
This is the verbal operant used in this exchange.
What is intraverbal?
Erin is asked to write a report at work. She is unsure of what to do so she keeps asking her manager questions about the report.
What is escape?
The primary reason why recording data immediately is important.
What is accuracy?
Courtney is talking with her client's parent after a therapy session. The client's parents asks Courtney questions about a behavior that she has never seen before and has never been discussed about this client. Courtney tells the parent she will mention this to the BCBA rather than providing recommendations to the parent. Why?
What is the RBT's role and scope of practice? RBt implement the behavior plan that a BCBA creates. When a new behavior arises, it needs to be assessed and it is a BCBA role to assess behavior.
Food is ________ reinforcer.
A shiny new car is an example of a ______ reinforcer.
What are unconditioned and conditioned?
Teacher says, “Spell the word – apple.”
Child writes: a-p-p-l-e
Teacher says, “Good spelling the word apple that is correct!”
Name the verbal operant.
What is transcription?
Rylan is asked to sit with his friends at group. She gets up and starts running around the room while laughing and looking at his leader.
What is escape and attention?
Marion is tracking attention to task for her client. Her BCBA has asked that every 5 minutes she note at the time whether her client is attending or not and record this on the data sheet throughout the session. This is the type of measurement procedure being used.
What is momentary time sampling?
What is maintain professional boundaries?
Kaitlyn is teaching her client to write his name. At first she provides hand-over-hand assistance and then gradually decreases the amount of assistance she gives him, until he is independent. This is the type of prompting used in this example.
What is most-to-least prompting?