Reinforcement and Punishment
Acronyms
Teaching/Prompting Strategies
Verbal Operants
Miscellaneous
100

A presentation of a stimulus that increases the likelihood of that behavior occurring under the same or similar conditions in the future

What is positive reinforcement?

100

ABA

What is applied behavior analysis?

100

This prompt hierarchy includes gradually increasing the level of assistance

What is least to most prompting?

100

When someone asks for something they want or need

What is a mand?

100

A method used to build a positive relationship between a therapist and a client (aimed to make YOU a conditioned reinforcer)

What is pairing?

200

A presentation of a stimulus that decreases the likelihood of that behavior occurring under the same or similar conditions in the future

What is positive punishment?

200

AVB

What is applied verbal behavior?

200

This prompt hierarchy includes systematically decreasing the level of assistance

What is most to least prompting?

200

A form of verbal behavior that involves identifying or commenting on something that is seen, heard, smelled, or felt

What is a tact?

200

Teaching process where the learner completes only the first step of the task analysis and access to reinforcement is dependent on independent completion of that step

What is forward chaining?

300

A removal of a stimulus that increases the likelihood of that behavior occurring under the same or similar conditions in the future

What is negative reinforcement?

300

FCR

What is functional communication response?

300

This is the process of breaking a complex skill or series of behaviors into smaller, teachable units

What is a task analysis?

300

A method of teaching language that focuses on the idea that a word's meaning is found in its functions

What is verbal behavior?

300

When a skill is learned in one environment and can then be observed across new and different environments or situations

What is generalization?

400

A removal of a stimulus that decreases the likelihood of that behavior occurring under the same or similar conditions in the future

What is negative punishment?

400

SBT

What is skill-based treatment?

400

This strategy involves differential reinforcement of successive approximations to a terminal behavior

What is shaping?

400

A form of verbal behavior where the speaker repeats the same sound or word that was said by another person

What is an echoic?

400

When an individual shows interest in an item, activity, interaction, etc

What is an indicating response?

500

The selective reinforcement of desired behaviors while withholding reinforcement for other, undesired behaviors

What is differential reinforcement?

500

SD

What is a discriminative stimulus?

500

The shift in control of a behavior from one stimulus to another

What is stimulus control transfer?

500

A type of verbal behavior that involves responding to another person's verbal behavior without a direct stimulus

What is an intraverbal?

500

Something that you do to test a skill without prompting to see where the individual's performance is without assistance

What is a cold probe?