Extinction Flashcards
A-B-C Data Charts
Help team members determine what happens before the behavior (antecedent), when the behavior occurs (behavior), and what happens directly after the behavior (the consequence).
Access to a tangible or activity (function of behavior)
Occurs when a learner engages in a behavior to obtain a tangible or activity.
Access to Attention (function of behavior)
Occurs when a learner engages in a behavior to obtain attention.
Alternative Behavior
An appropriate behavior that replaces the interfering behavior.
Antecedent-Based Interventions (ABI)
An evidence-based practice that can be used to decrease and identified interfering engagement and/or increase engagement by modifying the environment to change the conditions that prompt the interfering behavior from the learner.
Automatic Reinforcement
Reinforcement that occurs regardless of the social mediation of others (e.g. scratching an itch)
Behavior Intervention Plan
Developed by a multidisciplinary team to address an interfering behavior and should include strategies for preventing the occurrence of the interfering behavior, teaching or increasing the replacement behavior, and increasing learning opportunities and social engagement.
Complex Communication Needs
Occurs when learners have significant speech or language impairments that result in an inability or limited ability to engage in functional communication using conventional methods, such as speech.
Consequence
Feedback/reinforcement provided by teachers and practitioners.
Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA)
Delivers reinforcer upon the occurrence of a target behavior that is an alternative to behavior selected for reduction but not necessary topographically dissimilar to the inappropriate behavior.
Differential Reinforcement Procedure
The application of reinforcement designed to reduce or eliminate the occurrence of interfering behaviors (tantrums, aggression, self injury) resulting in a positive and teaching environment to facilitate learning.
Duration Data
Records how long a learner engages in a particular behavior or skill.
Echolalia
Nonsensical repetition of words or phrases; at times echolalia can be communicative at times or also (potentially) used as a tool for processing.
Escape (Function of Behavior)
Occurs when a learner engages in a behavior to get out of doing something he or she does not want to do.
Extinction
An evidence-based practice that involves withholding reinforcement for an interfering behavior and results in the reduction or elimination of the behavior.
Extinction Outburst
An increase in the frequency, intensity, and/or duration of a behavior following the implementation of an extinction procedure.
Extinction History
A person’s prior experience with extinction procedures.
Frequency Data
Used to measure how often the learner with ASD engages in the target skill or behavior.
Function of Behavior
The reason a behavior occurs; the four main functions of behavior include escape/avoidance, access to attention, access to tangible/activity, and automatic reinforcement.
Functional Communication Training
A systematic practice to replace maladaptive or interfering behavior with more appropriate and effective communicative behaviors.