Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

619 Professional Issues in ABA Terms > Terms > Flashcards

Terms Flashcards

1
Q

4 Functions of Behavior

A

1) attention
2) sensory/automatic
3) to access a tangible/edible item
4) to escape a particular person, place or activity.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Accepting Accountability

A

One of the core principles of ABA stating:
We have an awesome responsibility in designing behavior change programs. We have to be accountable when treatments do not work

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

According Dignity

A

One of the core principles of ABA stating:

Clients must be treated with respect and respect their wishes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Analytic

A

demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior (that is, if a functional relation is demonstrated)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Antecedent

A

Environmental events that occur before a behavior

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Applied

A

Investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the subject(s)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Applied Behavior Analysis

A

The science in which tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for behavior change

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Aversive Procedure

A

An unpleasant or noxious stimulus.
More technically, a stimulus change or condition that functions to evoke a behavior that has terminated it in the past, as a punisher when presented following behavior, and/or as a reinforce when withdrawn following behavior

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

BCBA Task List

A

Task list for skills that are common behavior analytic tasks that will be tested on the BACB exam

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

BCaBA

A

conducts assessments and can interpret results and design ethical treatment for situations and scenarios that are similar to what they encountered in supervised field work. All BCaBA’s must receive supervision at least 1 hour per month by a BCBA in order to maintain their credential (as of August 2010).

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Behavior Analysis Certification Board (BACB)

A

Certification Board for behavior analysts, The BACB certification procedures and content undergo regular psychometric review and validation, pursuant to a job analysis survey of the profession and standards established by content experts in the field.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Behavior Analyst

A

Title refering to individual who holds the BCBA or BCaBA credential, an individual authorized by the BACB to provide supervision, or a coordinator of a BACB Approved Course Sequences.
Where Code elements are deemed relevant to the practice of an RBT, the term “behavior analyst” includes the behavior technician.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Behavior Change Program

A

The behavior-change program is a formal, written document that describes in technological detail every assessment and treatment task necessary to achieve stated goals

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Behavior Analytic Services

A

Services that are explicitly based on principles and procedures of behavior analysis (i.e., the science of behavior) and are designed to change behavior in socially important ways.
These services include, but are not limited to, treatment, assessment, training, consultation, managing and supervising others, teaching, and delivering continuing education.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Behavioral

A

Entails precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of improvement and documents that it was the subject’s behavior that changed

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Behavioral Treatment (6)

A

1) An individual has a right to a therapeutic environment
2) An individual has a right to services whose overriding goal is personal welfare
3) An individual has a right to treatment by a competent behavior analyst
4) An individual has a right to programs that teach functional skills
5) An individual has a right to behavioral assessment and ongoing evaluation and
6) An individual has the right to the most effective treatment procedures available.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Being Just

A

One of the core principles of ABA, stating: treat others as you would like to be treated

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Being Faithful

A

One of the core principles of ABA, stating: we should be dependable and reliable sources of wise counsel and effective, ethical treatment

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Benefiting Others

A

One of the core principles of ABA, stating: primary role of behavior analysts is to benefit others in whatever setting or situation they are in, can put behavior analysts at odds with other professionals

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA)

A

Board Certified Behavior Analyst.
Indpendent practitioner that may work independently or through an agency.
The BCBA conducts descriptive assessment, functional analysis and provides behavior analytic servces.
Often serve as consultants.
BCBA’s the only individuals’ qualified to oversee BCaBA staff according to the Behavior

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Client

A

Refers any recipient or beneficiary of the professional The term includes, but not limited to (a) The direct recipient of services;
b) The parent, as well as others (stakeholders)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Conceptually Systematic

A

Behavior change interventions are derived from basic principles of behavior

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Confidentiality

A

Describes a situation of trust insofar as any
information regarding a person receiving or having received services may not be discussed with or otherwise made available to another person or group, unless that person has provided explicit authorization for release of such information

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Conflict of Interest

A

A situation in which a person in a position of responsibility or trust has competing professional or personal interests that make it difficult to fulfill his or her duties impartially

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

Consent to Release of Information

A

Signed document necessary before information can be released to other individuals or agencies

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

Consequence

A

Environmental events that occur after a behavior, these may be planned events (such as a time out when a child tantrums in a store) or unplanned events (items on shelf all over store floor) that may have an impact on maintaining a particular behavior of concern. Consequences are not only “negative” in nature. In the field of ABA, the term consequence also includes “positive” responses to a behavior, that occur after the behavior.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

Control

A

Results of experiments that show that specific manipulations of one event (the independent variable) produce a reliable change in another event (the dependent variable), and that the change in the dependent variable was unlikely the result of extraneous factors (confounding variables)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

Correlation

A

The systematic coexistance between two events can be used to predict the relative probability of one event occurring based on the presence of another event

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

Crisis Management Procedures

A

Procedures to deal with crisis that are required by law in clinics or schools.
Can involve crisis management training like PCMA or CPI

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

Data Safeguards

A

Security procedures for data that are mandatory for keeping client data safe like locking up confidential files or having secure systems to keep online

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

Description

A

Consist of a collection of facts about the observed events that can be quantified, classified, or examined for possible relations with other known facts

32
Q

Determinism

A

The theory that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occurs as the result of other events.

33
Q

Disclosure

A

Behavior analysts never disclose confidential information without the consent of the client, except as mandated by law, or where permitted by law for a valid purpose, Behavior analysts recognize that parameters of consent for disclosure should be acquired at the outset of any defined relationship and is an ongoing procedure throughout the duration of the professional relationship

34
Q

Do No Harm

A

One of the core ethical principles of ABA, stating: follow a system of regimen in which according to one’s ability and judgment, consider what’s beneficial for one’s patients, or to help or to at least do no harm

35
Q

Effective

A

Improves behavior sufficiently to produce practical results for the participant/client

36
Q

Empiricism

A

The practice of objective observation of the phenomena of interest

37
Q

Escape

A

Describes a relation between a performance and an aversive stimulus in which the performance terminates the aversive stimulus.

38
Q

Establishing Operation (EO)

A

A motivating operation that increases the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event as a reinforcer.
EX: food deprivation makes food an effective reinforcer

39
Q

Ethics

A

Refers to Behaviors, practices, and decisions that address such basic and fundamental questions as:
What is the right thing to do?
What’s worth doing?
What does it mean to be a good behavior analytic practitioner?

40
Q

Evidence-Based Treatments

A

Refers to Treatments that are empirically validated and stand up to scientific scrutiny

41
Q

Experimental Control

A

Results of experiments that show that specific manipulations of one event (the independent variable) produce a reliable change in another event (the dependent variable)

42
Q

Experimentation

A

The controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomenon of interest (the dependent variable) under two or more different conditions

43
Q

Exploitative Relationships

A

One in which the behavior analysts has and unfair supervisory, evaluative, or authority over someone in which they have a relationship, including supervisees, students, employees, research participants and clients

44
Q

Extinction

A

The withholding of reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior

45
Q

Functional Analysis (FA)

A

The process of experimental evaluation of the functional relations among antecedent, target behavior, and consequences. Specifically assesses the 4 functions of behavior

46
Q

Functional assessment or Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)

A

Refers to a category of procedures used to formally assess the possible environmental causes of problem behavior. These procedures include informant assessments (e.g., interviews, rating scales), direct observation in the natural environment (e.g., ABC assessment), and experimental functional analysis.

47
Q

Functional Relation

A

A specific change in one event (the dependent variable) can reliably be produced by specific manipulations of another event (the independent variable), and that the change in the dependent variable was unlikely to be the result of other extraneous factors (confounding variables).

48
Q

Functions of Behavior

A

What the client is accessing or escaping by engaging in the problem behavior

49
Q

Generality

A

Produces behavior changes that last over time, appear in other environments, or spread to other behaviors.

50
Q

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA)

A

A federal act that protects health information of clients. Relates to data safeguarding

51
Q

Least Restrictive Procedures

A

Behavior analysts minimize the use of items as potential reinforcers that may be harmful to the health and development of the client, or that may require excessive motivating operations to be effective

52
Q

Levels of Understanding

A

Different types of scientific investigations yield knowledge that enables the description, prediction, and/or control of the phenomena studied

53
Q

Maintenance

A

Continuation of the conditions that generated a performance

54
Q

Multiple (Dual) Relationships

A

In which a behavior analyst is in both a behavior-analytic role and a non-behavior-analytic role simultaneously with a client or someone closely associated with or related to the client

55
Q

Negative Punishment

A

Occurs when a behavior is followed by the removal of a stimulus event and the future frequency of the behavior decreases under similar environmental conditions.

56
Q

Negative Reinforcement

A

The removal of a stimulus upon the occurrence of a behavior that increases the likelihood that the behavior will occur in the future

57
Q

Operation Definition

A

A definition in terms of the operations used to produce and measure a phenomenon. It is important to define a behavior in clear and concise terms so that it can be accurately measured, assessed and treated by a number of individuals across a variety of environments

58
Q

Parsimony

A

States that simple, logical explanations must be ruled out, experimentally or conceptually, before more complex or abstract explanations are considered

59
Q

Philosophic Doubt

A

Continually questioning the truthfulness and validity of all scientific theory and knowledge

60
Q

Positive Punishment

A

Occurs when a behavior is followed by the presentation of a stimulus event and the future frequency of the behavior decreases under similar environmental conditions

61
Q

Positive Reinforcement

A

The presentation of a stimulus that increases the future likelihood that a behavior will occur

62
Q

Prediction

A

repeated observations Reveal that two events consistently correlate with each other. In the presence of one event, another event occurs or fails to occur with some specified probability

63
Q

Punishment

A

Occurs when stimulus change immediately follows a response and decreases the future frequency of that type of behavior in similar conditions

64
Q

Pursuit of Excellence

A

One of the core ethical principles in ABA, stating: being aware of the most recent research in your field and specialty and incorporating the most up-to-date methods and procedures in your practice of behavior analysis through conferences and publications

65
Q

Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)

A

The RBT is a paraprofessional who practices under the close, ongoing supervision of a BCBA or BCaBA (“designated RBT supervisor”).
The RBT is primarily responsible for the direct implementation of skill-acquisition and behavior-reduction plans developed by the supervisor.

66
Q

Reinforcement

A

The procedure of providing consequences for a behavior that increase or maintain the frequency of that behavior.

67
Q

Replication

A

Repeating experiments (and independent variable conditions within experiments) to determine the reliability and usefulness of findings

68
Q

Respect Autonomy

A

One of the core ethical principles in ABA, stating: to promote one’s independence or self-sufficiency

69
Q

Right to Effective Treatment

A

Van Houten article. One of the clients rights. they have right to treatment based on the research literature and adapted to the individual client).

70
Q

Risk-Benefit Analysis

A

A deliberate evaluation of the potential risks (e.g., limitations, side effects, costs) and benefits (e.g., treatment outcomes, efficiency, savings) associated with a given intervention.
Should conclude with a course of action associated with greater benefits than risks

71
Q

Service Record

A

Record of treatment that includes, but is not limited to, written behavior-change plans, assessments, graphs, raw data, electronic recordings, progress summaries, and written reports

72
Q

Supervisee

A
  1. A student or individual under the supervision of a BCBA, professor, supervisor in clinic, or manager
  2. is any individual whose behavior-analytic services are overseen by a behavior analyst within the context of a defined, agreed-upon relationship
73
Q

Supervisor

A

Any behavior analyst who oversees behavior-analytic services performed by a supervisee within the context of a defined, agreed-upon relationship

74
Q

Technological

A

The written description of all procedures used in the study is sufficiently complete and detailed to enable others to replicate it

75
Q

Treating Others with Care and Compassion

A

One of the core principles of ABA, stating: The value that suggests that clients be given choices and interpersonal relationships demonstrate sympathy and concern

76
Q

Treatment Efficacy

A

Refers to the Clients right to effective treatment

i.e., based on the research literature and adapted to the individual client

619 Professional Issues in ABA Terms (1 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions