Behavior Reduction Flashcards
What is a Behavior Reduction Plan?
A document which outlines information needed to understand a client’s challenging behavior, including context of occurrence and intervention strategies to address it. Also called a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP).
What is the meaning of Functions of Behavior?
The reason, purpose or cause for a behavior to occur. This is also the reinforcement that occurs following a behavior.
What does Sensory Stimulation -maintained behavior look like?
This is performed to activate one of a person’s senses. For those with autism, this is usually referred to as self-stimulatory behavior - which sometimes appears as repetitive body or object movement.
What do Escaping & Avoidance -maintained behaviors look like?
Behaving or acting in a way to get out of doing a non-preferred activity or to stop something aversive (uncomfortable/painful) from happening
What do Attention Seeking -maintained behaviors look like?
This normally involves a client ‘acting out’ to gain attention from someone else.
What do Tangible -maintained behaviors look like?
This normally involves a client engaging in challenging behavior to gain access to a preferred food, drink, toy or activity
What is an Antecedent?
What happens immediately before a behavior of interest. The ‘trigger’ which initiates a response.
What are Motivating Operations (MO)?
Manipulating the environment to make a particular reinforcer more or less valuable, therefore making our client’s behavior more or less likely to happen.
What is Differential Reinforcement?
A strategy often used to address challenging behavior whereby reinforcement is given after appropriate behavior and reinforcement is withheld after inappropriate behaviors.
Withholding Reinforcement
no longer giving reinforcement to a previously reinforced behavior, this is also termed “Extinction”
