Verbal Operants
Mands, Tacts, Intraverbals, Echoics, Listener Responding
What are the verbal operants?
A stimulus that signals a behavior will be reinforced
What is a discriminative stimulus (SD)?
period of observation before we implement the intervention
What is the baseline phase?
Prompting is used to ELIMINATE any errors - client is prevented by making an incorrect response
What is errorless teaching?
Informing the client and preparing the client for an event/activity that is going to occur in the near future
What is priming?
Requests and Labels
What are mands and tacts?
Using a three-term contingency (A - B - C) to teach certain skills. Each trial is a new attempt to teach a new skill.
What is discrete trial training?
Event (Teaching) that precedes a demand to either increase or decrease occurrence of behavior
What is the intervention phase?
usually done in a group setting with FAST-paced material, error correction and positive reinforcement are occurring at rapid pace
Using a preferred interest to distract/prevent a behavior from further escalating - usually used in the trigger phase
What is interest distraction?
Imitating a word or imitating words
What are echoics?
Client’s current interests and activities are guiding therapy and where teaching occurs.
Natural Environment Teaching
The phase where client applies a mastered target to a similar situation that was not specifically taught
reinforce successive approximations to the target response (Desired Behavior)
What is shaping?
interrupting a maladaptive behavior and redirecting the client to engage in a more appropriate behavior
What is redirection?
A person comments or asks a question in response to another person's vocal behavior
What is an intraverbal?
Leads to the future probability of INCREASING a response
Reinforcement
when a client is able to retain a previously mastered skill
What is the Maintenance phase?
removing reinforcement from an undesired behavior/response
what is extinction?
Describes the TOPOGRAPHY of what escalation of a client looks like and what interventions work in each phase; these are individualized to the client
What is an escalation cycle?
A person responding to another person’s verbal behavior
What is listener responding?
Leads to the future probability of DECREASING a response
What is Punishment?
Antecedent: stimulus that comes immediately before the behavior Behavior: description of the TOPOGRAPHY of the response (in OBSERVABLE terms) Consequence: immediate response to the behavior
What is ABC data?
a procedure used when an incorrect response is given by the client
What is error correction?