SFF Terms

Question 1

Positive Reinforcement

Answer 1

Adding a reinforcing stimulus to the environment to increase a behavior occurring in the future.

Question 2

Negative Reinforcement

Answer 2

Removing an aversive stimulus to the environment to increase a behavior occurring in the future.

Question 3

Positive Punishment

Answer 3

Adding an aversive stimulus from the environment to decrease a behavior occurring in the future.

Question 4

Negative Punishment

Answer 4

Removing a reinforcing stimulus from the environment to decrease a behavior occurring in the future.

Question 5

Extinction

Answer 5

Withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.

Question 6

Sd

Answer 6

The signal that reinforcement is available.

Question 7

Motivating operations

Answer 7

environmental variables that alter the effectiveness of some stimulus as a reinforcer.

Question 8

Establishing Operation (EO)

Answer 8

increases the current effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as reinforcement.

Question 9

Abolishing Operation (AO)

Answer 9

decrease the current effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as reinforcement.

Question 10

Antecedent

Answer 10

What happens immediately before the behavior.

Question 11

Behavior

Answer 11

Objective description of anything an organism says or does.

Question 12

Consequence

Answer 12

What happens immediately after the behavior.

Question 13

Receptive

Answer 13

The ability to understand information.

Question 14

Expressive

Answer 14

The ability to put thoughts into words and sentences (signs or symbols), in a way that makes sense.

Question 15

Behavior Momentum

Answer 15

Presenting easier task before harder tasks to increase the chance of responding.

Question 16

Mand

Answer 16

A request that is controlled by motivating operations.

Question 17

Tact

Answer 17

Labeling stimuli in the environment.

Question 18

Echoic

Answer 18

Repeating the same word or sound that another speaker emits.

Question 19

Intraverbal

Answer 19

Listening and responding appropriately to another person’s verbal behavior (conversations).

Question 20

Probe

Answer 20

Introducing a skill to test the learner knowledge without any prompts or intervention.

Question 21

Baseline

Answer 21

The condition or phase in which no treatment is implemented.

Question 22

Skill acquisition

Answer 22

Teaching a new skill.

Question 23

Discrete Trial Training (DTT)

Answer 23

highly structured, one-on-one teaching environment in which tasks are broken down and taught in small increments.

Question 24

Natural Environment Training (NET)

Answer 24

Learning in a variety of environment by encountering naturally occurring stimuli.

Question 25

Prompting

Answer 25

A method or tool used to move the learner from incorrect response to correct response

Question 26

Task Analysis

Answer 26

The process of breaking a skill down into smaller, more manageable components.

Question 27

Frequency

Answer 27

Count per observation time.

Question 28

Rate

Answer 28

The number of times something occurs within a specified time period.

Question 29

Duration

Answer 29

Amount of time in which behavior occurs during an observation period

Question 30

Whole Interval

Answer 30

Observation period is divided into a series of brief time intervals and the observer records if the behavior occurred for the entire interval.

Question 31

Partial Interval

Answer 31

Observation periods divided into small time intervals and observer’s record whether the behavior occurred at ANY time during the interval.

Question 32

Momentary Time Sampling

Answer 32

Observer records whether the target behavior is occurring at the moment that each interval ends.

Question 33

Permanent Product

Answer 33

Measuring behavior after it has occurred by measuring the effects that the behavior produced on the environment.

Question 34

Percent Occurrence

Answer 34

Rate of behavior occurrence over the opportunities provided to engage in the behavior.

Question 35

Latency

Answer 35

Measures length of time between the presentation of an antecedent stimulus and the initiation of the behavior.

Question 36

Inter-Response Time

Answer 36

The amount of time that elapses between two consecutive instances of a response Between 2 bites from spoon

Question 37

Differential Reinforcement of Alternative behaviors

Answer 37

Reinforcing a behavior that serves as an alternative to the problem behavior

Question 38

Differential Reinforcement of Other behaviors

Answer 38

Reinforcing the absence of the problem behavior during or at specific times.

Question 39

Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible behaviors

Answer 39

Reinforcing a behavior that is incompatible with a problem behavior.