Final Flashcards
ABA is based on _________
Operant Conditional Therapy
3 reasons why people with Autism exhibit behaviors:
- Attention
- Escape
- Avoid
What is the ABC’s of ABA
Antecedent- what triggers the behavior
Behavior- the action (either good or bad)
Consequence- the outcome of the behavior
DTT
Discrete Trial Training
VBA
Verbal Behavior Analysis
NET
Natural Environmental Training
PRT
Pivotal Response Training
B.F. Skinner: Verbal Behavior (1957)
Manding
Tacting
Echoic
Intraverbal
A ___________ should occur on every trial and be carefully faded to minimize errors.
Prompting
3 Behaviorist who had a large part in establishing behaviorism:
Skinner
Watson
Pavlov
For there to be a behavior it must be _________ and __________
Observable and Measurable
3 branches of behavior analysis:
Applied Behavior Analysis
Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Professional Practice
7 Dimensions of ABA:
Applied Behaviorism Analytic Technological Conceptually Effectiveness Generality
List 3 important characteristics of ABA:
Has to be observable and measurable
ABC’s of ABA
Modify the behavior
List 5 areas of Application in BA:
Autism ADD-Attention Deficit Disorder ADHD- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder OCD- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Phobias
The founder of ABA was _________ but _________ perfected it.
Skinner
Lovaas
Who was the founder of Operant Conditioning?
Skinner
_____________ is any external or internal observable and measurable act of an organism.
Behavior
___________ is anything that is seen, heard, smelt, tasted, or felt.
Observable
__________ is anything that can be counted.
Measurable
_________ is something that stimulates or gets a reaction from something else.
Stimulus
___________ are a verbal or physical stimulus such as a command or request. What happens before the behavior.
Antecedents
_________ are the outcomes, conditional to the behavioral.
Consequences
The skill to be learned is broken down into the smallest units for easy learning.
Chaining
Are things used that fade systematically and as quickly as possible from a more intrusive prompt. They are used to teach or to obtain a particular behavior.
Prompting
Gradually reducing and eventually eliminating prompting.
Fading
_________ involves gradually modifying the existing behavior into the desired behavior.
Shaping
One technique found to be effective with some students, particularly children- the use of taped sequences as exemplars of behaviors.
Video Modeling
Anything that, when presented as a consequence of a response, increases the probability or frequency of that response.
Reinforce
A consequence that decreases the probability or frequency of that response.
Punisher
Involves from full physical (hand over hand) to hand on wrist, hand on elbow, hand on shoulder, shadowing, to fading your proximity.
Physical Prompt
Using language to prompt
Verbal prompt
Pointing or using motions
Gestural prompts
_______ is the science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior.
ABA
__________ is someone who does ABA and who is properly trained to do it well.
Behavior Analyst
____________ is a behavior analyst who has met the considerable educational requirements and passed a test to demonstrate their knowledge of ABA.
BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst)
_______________ is someone who does behavior therapy, and like a behavior analyst, should be trained to do it well.
Behavior Therapist
____________ is generally thought of as an approach to psychotherapy that relies on the use of therapeutic techniques based on principles of learning, primarily operant and classical conditioning
Behavior Therapy
_________________ refers to any of a number of types of psychotherapy that emphasizes trying to help clients deal better with their problems by helping them to change the ways they think or talk to themselves about things. It is NOT a part of ABA.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
______________ is the science of contingent relations between behavior and other events.
Behaviorology
Ogden Lindsley: if a dead man can do it, it’s not a behavior.
Dead Man’s Rule
_____________ are those behaviors targeted for change.
Target Behavior
_________________ refers to behavior that is potentially directly observable by the public.
Response.
One try, attempt, repetition, or instance of a behavior, often in a situation set up to teach the behavior.
Trail
_________________ are behaviors that are not effective in achieving their goal and/or have other unwanted consequences They may be socially or otherwise unacceptable because of their short-or long-term consequences for the individual who performs these behaviors or for their consequences or effects on others.
Maladaptive Behavior
_________________ is a behavior that immediately and predictably follows something in the environment.
Adaptive Behavior
_________________ are usually useful socially acceptable behaviors that are effective or functional in serving their purpose.
Verbal Behavior
___________ is a request. Asking for something. De-mand, com-mand.
Mand
________ is another verbal behavior term that essentially means to name or label something.
Tact
_________________ refers to behavior such as thinking, imaging and feeling that is not directly observable to the public Other actions inside our bodies, such as heart beat or brain waves, are also considered covert behaviors.
Covert Behaviors
_________________ refers not just to spoken language, but to other forms of communications as well, such as reading and writing. Sign language is a type of verbal behavior.
Overt Behavior
Autism Spectrum Disorder and the 3 levels:
Autism
Pervasive Developmental Disability-Not Otherwise Specified
Aspergers
Level 1: Requiring Support
Level 2: Requiring Substantial Support
Level 3: Requiring Very Substantial Support
__________ is what happened next after the target behavior occurs, usually immediately after.
Consequence
_______________ is the frequency with which a certain behavior occurs depends on what happens right after it occurs, that is, the behaviors immediate consequence.
Operant Conditioning
_________________ is when the consequences of behavior are such that they make the behavior or likely to occur again in the future.
Positive Reinforcement
Developed by E.L. Thorndike in the early 1900s used to emphasize the importance of the actual effects of behavior in the learning process.
Law of Effect
Try behaving in different ways until something that works to get the consequence or result that you want.
Trial and Error
_______________ is generally tangible or otherwise observable consequences. These are reinforcers that we can usually see, feel, touch, taste, or smell.
Extrinsic Reinforcers
______________ is the act of doing something may be reinforcing by itself. Creative activities are often considered to be intrinsically reinforcing.
Intrinsic Reinforcers
_________________ is a type of secondary reinforcement that involves getting attention from others.
Social Reinforcement
Such as money. In addition to being a conditioned reinforcer, generalized reinforcers, such as money, tokens, stars, chips, points and the like can have the reinforcing effects of the various reinforcers for which they can be exchanged.
Generalized Reinforcer
_________________ are used to reinforce generalized reinforcers- these are reinforcers that can be exchanged for generalized reinforcers (for things such as TV, car, clothes, books, toys, snacks, privileges, ect.)
Backup Reinforcer
When a bit of food is used as a reinforcers.
Edibles
Things that have lost their reinforcement capability for a brief time.
Satiation
Basically getting used to something.
Habituation
Behavior is increased by stopping an unpleasant or aversive condition as soon as the desired behavior occurs.
Negative Reinforcement
_________________is when the behavior puts an end to an already existing aversive situation.
Escape
_________________is behaving a certain way to avoid the aversive event before it occurs.
Avoidance
_________________ is the process through which behavior is eliminated by withholding reinforcement.
Extinction
The unwanted behavior is immediately followed by the presentation of an aversive consequence which results in a decrease in the frequency of the behavior that immediately proceeded it.
Punishment
If a behavior is punished and suppressed in one situation where it is not punished
Behavioral Contrast
_________________ is the undesirable behavior is followed by the loss of subtraction if something that individual values.
Response Cost
When people receive reinforcement every time they perform a particular behavior.
Continuous Reinforcement
The behavior is reinforced sometimes, but not always.
Intermittent Reinforcement, Partial Reinforcement
Schedule in which the individual is always reinforced for the same number of times the target behavior happens the simplest schedule to use.
Fixed Ratio
Schedule the number of responses required for reinforcement keeps changing. It is the average number of behaviors used for reinforcement. The most powerful and effective of the basic reinforcement schedules.
Variable Ratio