MODULE 2: Identifying, Describing and Assessing Behavior Overview

Question 1

Discriminative Stimulus (SD)

Answer 1

A stimulus in the presence of which responses of some types have been reinforced and in the absence of which the same type of responses have occurred and not been reinforced

Question 2

Discriminative Stimulus for Reinforcement (SDr)

Answer 2

A stimulus that signals if the client responds with a specific behavior, reinforcement occurs

Question 3

Discriminative Stimulus for Extinction

Answer 3

A stimulus that signals if the client responds with a specific behavior, reinforcement will not occur

Question 4

Discriminative Stimulus for Punishment (SDp)

Answer 4

A stimulus that signals if the client responds with a specific behavior punishment will occur

Question 5

Environment

Answer 5

Situation & surrounding (including people)

Question 6

Baseline (BL)

Answer 6

Behavior levels prior to treatment or manipulation (includes duration and frequency of the behavior prior)

Question 7

Stimulus

Answer 7

A change in environment, either before or after the behavior

Question 8

Target Behavior (TB)

Answer 8

Behavior that has been selected for change
- decrease or increase, get rid of or improve
- deceleration or acquisition
- behavior you are applying your intervention to

Question 9

Dead Man Test

Answer 9

If a dead man can do it, then it is NOT a behavior

Question 10

Who created the Dead Man Test? and When?

Answer 10

Ogden Lindsley in 1965

Question 11

Verbal Behavior

Answer 11

Sounds, words, or speaking

Question 12

Non-Verbal Behavior

Answer 12

Made up of tone of voice, body language, gestures, eye contact, facial expressions and proximity

Question 13

Overt Behavior

Answer 13

Directly observant

Question 14

Covert Behavior

Answer 14

Inside the skin (ex: thinking)

Question 15

Respondent Behavior

Answer 15

“Ready-made” behaviors where no “learning” is required (ex: reflexes)

Question 16

Operant Behavior

Answer 16

“Operates” on the environment or is controllable by the individual

Question 17

Topography

Answer 17

What it looks or sounds like

Question 18

Intensity

Answer 18

The physical force involved in the behavior (how hard or how loud)

Question 19

Temporal Locus

Answer 19

When the behavior occurs

Question 20

Temporal Extent

Answer 20

The length of time the response lasts (duration)

Question 21

Repeatability

Answer 21

How often the behavior occurs (Rate/Frequency Count)

Question 22

Operational Definition

Question 23

Tantrum

Question 24

When behaviors result in immediate attention from others

Answer 24

Social Positive Reinforcement (Attention)

Question 25

When behaviors result in access to reinforcing tangibles or other stimuli

Answer 25

Social Positive Reinforcement (Access to Tangibles)

Question 26

When behaviors are learned as a result of their effectiveness in terminating or postponing aversive events

Answer 26

Negative Reinforcement (Avoidance/Escape)

Question 27

Doing the behavior regardless if it results in a positive or negative reinforcement

Answer 27

Automatic Reinforcement (Sensory)

Question 28

When behaviors directly produce their own reinforcement

Answer 28

Positive Automatic Reinforcement (Sensory)

Question 29

When behaviors directly terminate aversive stimulation as an automatic outcome of the response

Answer 29

Negative Automatic Reinforcement (Sensory)

Question 30

Antecedent

Answer 30

What happens immediately before the target behavior either in the environment or internally to the person

Question 31

Behavior

Answer 31

All behavior serves a purpose or a FUNCTION for the person. Serves as one of the 4 functions.

Question 32

Consequence

Answer 32

What happens immediately after the behavior

Question 33

What are the ABC’s?

Answer 33

Antecedent, Behavior, and Consequence

Question 34

Positive Reinforcement

Answer 34

When the presentation of a stimulus immediately following a behavior increase the future frequency of that behavior

Question 35

Negative Reinforcement

Answer 35

When the removal of a stimulus immediately following a behavior increases the future frequency of that behavior

Question 36

Positive Punishment

Answer 36

Adding a stimulus immediately after a behavior that decrease the behavior over time

Question 37

Negative Punishment

Answer 37

Removing a stimulus immediately after a behavior that decreases the behavior over time

Question 38

Conducted to determine a stimulus that the client prefers, and the value of that preferred stimulus

Answer 38

Preference Assessments

Question 39

Determines which stimuli will increase and maintain the future frequency of a behavior over time

Answer 39

Reinforcer Assessment