What is behavior?
ABCS of Behavior
Functions of Behavior
ABC Data and Setting Events
Consequences and Interventions
100

Anything a person says or does?

What is Behavior?

100

What happens right before a behavior

What is an antecedent?

100

The four reasons behavior occurs

What is escape, attention, tangible, or sensory?

100

Data collected to figure out why behavior occurs

What is ABC data?

100

A consequence that increases behavior

What is reinforcement?

200

A test used to determine if something is truly a behavior.

What is the Dead Man's Test?

200

The observable action the person does

What is the behavior?

200

Behavior used to get out of doing something

What is escape?

200

Poor sleep, illness, or changes in routine are examples of this

What are setting events?

200

A consequence that decreases behavior

What is punishment?

300

Behavior must be able to be seen and counted

What is observable and measurable behavior?

300

What happens right after the behavior

What is a consequence?

300

Behavior used to gain focus from others

What is attention?

300

Why multiple ABC samples should be collected

What is to identify patterns and true function?

300

Stopping reinforcement for a behavior

What is extinction?

400

Behavior is described without judgment like “bad” or “good”

What does it mean that behavior is neutral?

400

Prior events that increase the likelihood of behavior

What is a setting event?

400

Behavior used to get an item or activity

What is access to tangibles?

400

A common antecedent that often triggers behavior

What are demands, transitions, or being told “no”?

400

A temporary increase in behavior when extinction starts

What is an extinction burst?

500

Behavior that matters because of its effect on the environment

What is socially significant behavior?

500

The full data sequence used to understand behavior

What are Antecedent–Behavior–Consequence (ABC) data?

500

Behavior that feels good or removes discomfort

What is sensory?

500

A tool using tally marks to track behavior across time

What is frequency or time sampling data?

500

Interventions used before behavior occurs

What are antecedent (preventative) interventions?