Virtual ELIS Meeting_ABA for Fun

What Is (Terms)

100

Anything that any living organism does during his/her engagement with environment

What is Behavior

200

Something favorable that increases behavior

What is Reinforcement

300

A test to determine what a student prefers.

What is a Preference Assessment

400

A test to determine what is reinforcing for the student and for what he/she will work to obtain.

What is a Reinforcement Assessment

500

A behavior that is described in terms that's clear and concise.  Words that express how the behavior looks, when and why it occurs.

What is an Operational Definition

How Do We Do It (Strategies)

100

The presentation of a consequence stimulus that "increases" the frequency of future occurrence of behavior.

What is positive reinforcement

200

The removal of an aversive or unwanted stimuli the future occurrence of behavior increases.

What is negative reinforcement

300

The delivery of an aversive stimuli that "decreases" the future occurrence of that particular behavior.

Positive Punishment

400

The presentation of a favorable stimuli that "increases" the future occurrence of a particular behavior.

Positive Reinforcement 

500

The removal of an aversive that increases the future occurrence of a particular behavior.

What is Negative Reinforcement

Do You Remember

100

What are the three things to remember about behavior

What is functional, predictable, and changeable

200

Something that happens right behavior the behavior occurs

What is an antecedent or (trigger).

300

This term describes how the behavior looks in operational terms so that someone else can easily observe the same target behavior.

What is Topography.

400

An antecedent stimulus that signals that reinforcement is available.

What is a Discriminative Stimulus (SD).

500

An antecedent stimulus that signals that reinforcement is no longer available.

What is S-Delta.

Acronyms and Things

100

S_r

What is Reinforcement.

200

S_r-

What is Negative Reinforcement.

300

S_p

What is Punishment.

400

A-B-C

What is a Three Term Contingency or Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence.

500

DRO

What is Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior.

What Would You Do

100

You are working with a student and you want to increase appropriate behavior.  What would you do?

What is Reinforcement.

200

You want to desperately decrease hitting behavior in one of your students.  What would you do.

What is Punishment.

300

You have decided to only reinforce your student when he uses his words appropriately to make a request and withhold reinforcement for any other inappropriate behavior.  What is this?

What is Extinction.

400

You have a new student in your classroom and you are trying to understand fully what are some of the items, activities or stimulus preferred by the student.  What do you need to do?

What is a Preference Assessment.

500

You have a student who really enjoys playing in the block area, he enjoys model race cars and crackers but when asked to perform certain tasks neither of the items evokes the correct response.  What other assessment should you conduct?

What is Reinforcer Assessment.