Behavior Reduction
The four primary functions of behavior.
What are automatic reinforcement, escape or avoidance, access, attention?
Past 12 months' supervisors and BCBA #s, hours worked with clients, number, type, and percentage of hours supervised.
What is the information required by an audit of an RBT by the BACB?
This is the percentage of hours worked as an RBT that must be supervised by a BCBA, according to the BACB.
What is at least 5%?
The part of the graph which contains the time of behavior.
What is the X axis?
These are things to avoid when probing skills to gain a baseline.
What are prompting responses and correcting errors?
Offering choices, using visual supports/schedules, priming, providing non-contingent reinforcement, timers, using high-probability request sequences.
What are examples of antecedent interventions?
New behaviors, increase in behaviors, confusion on how to implement a program, materials are needed, barriers preventing progress.
What are reasons to immediately contact your BCBA?
The number of years required by the BACB for supervision records to be maintained.
What is 7 years?
A type of discontinuous measurement conducted by dividing an observation period into equal intervals and recording whether a target behavior occurred during the entire interval.
What is whole interval recording?
This type of assessment gathers information via direct and indirect measures, and is used to potentially identify the function of a learner's behavior.
What is a functional behavior assessment (FBA)?
Reinforcement is provided for all behaviors other than the target behavior
What is differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO)?
The client is sick, client is falling asleep, client's household situation has changed, client has a new or changed medication, there are changes to client's therapies.
Spending time outside sessions with families, working or socializing with client/families outside sessions, "friending" clients/families on social media, accepting gifts larger than $10 from client/families.
What are examples of dual relationships?
A discontinuous method of observing and recording whether a behavior occurs at all during a specific time interval.
What is partial interval recording?
A procedure behavior analysts use to determine the function of a client’s behavior by experimentally arranging and manipulating variables.
What is a functional assessment (FA)?
Reinforcement is provided for a specified alternative behavior while withholding reinforcement for the target behavior.
What is differential reinforcement of alternative behaviors (DRA)?
A professional who works with children and is required to alert authorities when abuse or neglect is suspected.
What is a mandated reporter?
The amount of time after professional relations have ended before a sexual relationship can begin with a previous stakeholder.
What is 2 years?
Measurable and observable.
Anything a dead man can do.
What is behavior?
What is the Dead Man's Test?
A key difference between a functional analysis (FA) and the other assessments, allowing the analyst to determine the behavior’s function with a high degree of certainty.
What is the demonstration of experimental control in an FA?
A behavior reduction process that consists of withholding reinforcement for behaviors that were reinforced in the past.
What is extinction?
This is a federal law requiring healthcare providers to safeguard clients’ protected health information (PHI).
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
These are examples of maintaining client dignity.
The three items necessary to record for the ABC method of data collection.
What are antecedent, behavior, and consequence?
This is the difference between preference assessments and reinforcer assessments.
Preference assessments help us determine activities and items that our clients enjoy the most. These may or may not serve as actual reinforcers.