BEHAVIOR REDUCTION

Question 1

Abolishing Operation

Answer 1

This is when something is made less valuable by satiation.

Question 2

Access

Answer 2

Something in the Environment A person is engaging in behavior to gain something positive in the environment.

Question 3

Access to Something in the Body

Answer 3

This is sensory behavior. It is engaging in behavior to gain something positive in the body.

Question 4

Attention Extinction

Answer 4

Also known as planned ignoring. Ignore the behavior and provide no attention for the behavior.

Question 5

Behavioral Skills Training

Answer 5

Is a researched based training technique.

Question 6

Choice Giving

Answer 6

The client a choice during therapy, choice increases compliance and provides the learner a sense of control.

Question 7

Demand Fading

Answer 7

This is a technique where you increase the demand over time; used to decrease behaviors with the function of escape.

Question 8

Differential Reinforcement

Answer 8

Incompatible Behavior (DRI) Reinforcing a behavior that cannot physically be engaged in at the same time as the maladaptive behavior.

Question 9

Differential Reinforcing Lower Rates of Behavior (DRL)

Answer 9

This is typically reserved for behaviors that are socially acceptable but may occur too often.

Question 10

Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)

Answer 10

Reinforcing another behavior other than the maladaptive behavior.

Question 11

Escape Extinction

Answer 11

Do not allow the client to escape. Physical prompt the client into compliance.

Question 12

Escaping Something in the Body

Answer 12

This is also known as pain attenuation. This refers to engaging in behavior to escape something aversive in the body.

Question 13

Escaping Something in the Environment

Answer 13

A person engages in behavior to escape something aversive in the environment.

Question 14

Establishing Operations

Answer 14

This refers to instances when something is made more valuable by deprivation.

Question 15

High Probability Sequence/Behavior Momentum

Answer 15

Providing 3-4 demands with high compliance (you are sure the learner can and will do them), and presenting the demand with low compliance at the end of the sequence.

Question 16

Non-Contingent Reinforcement

Answer 16

This is providing reinforcement to a client regardless of behavior. This will act as an abolishing operation on the reinforcer.

Question 17

Operational Definition

Answer 17

Detailed definition of the behavior in observable terms. Must be thorough enough that any person could read it and understand what the behavior is and begin collecting data on the behavior.

Question 18

Sensory

Answer 18

Engaging in behavior to gain something positive in the body.

Question 19

Stimulus Discrimination

Answer 19

Occurs when new stimuli ― similar or not similar ― to the controlling stimulus do not evoke the same response as the controlling stimulus.

Question 20

Tangible Extinction

Answer 20

Do not provide access to the item during the behavior.

Question 21

Task Modification

Answer 21

This technique is changing how the client does work. Also used for behavior with the function of escape.