Unit 1 Flashcards
Reasons for selecting target behavior
Helps individual achieve outcomes.Behavior deficit makes the person too dependent on others.
Problems with behavior
Can’t Do: Skill Deficit
Problem with strength
Won’t do
Does, but only under limited circumstancesDoes at the wrong time or in the wrong place
Adaptive behavior
Those skills or abilities that enable the individual to meet standards of personal independence and responsibility that would be expected of his or her age and social group
Mastered tasks
Tasks for which the person has met the performance criteria set for the specific task within specific conditions
Examples of Assessments used to identify skills to target for acquisition
VB-MAPP
Essential for Living
The MOVE Curriculum
Discriminative stimulus
Antecedent stimulus correlated with the availability of reinforcement. Stimulus that should, after teaching, evoke the correct or an appropriate response.
SD
Discriminative Stimulus
Motivating operations
Antecedents that may temporarily increase or decrease the value of a consequence. They can be used to evoke a correct or appropriate response.
MO
Motivating operation
Prompts
Supplementary antecedent stimuli used to evoke a correct response in the presence of an EO or Sdthat will eventually control behavior
Artificial consequences and schedules
Consequent stimuli or schedules of presentation that may result in the learner making the correct or an appropriate response more frequently
Reinforcement
The presentation or removal of a stimulus following a response, that increases (or maintains) the future frequency of that response
Reinforcement should be used to:
Get behavior goingStrengthen a dimension of an already acquired skillKeep behavior going (maintenance)
Using positive reinforcement
Identify appetitive stimuli (potential reinforcers)
Collect baseline data
Deliver the appetitive stimulus contingent upon the target responseContinue to collect data
Using negative reinforcement
Identify aversive stimuli/conditions
Collect baseline data
Remove the aversive condition contingent upon the target responseContinue to collect data
Continuous (FR1) schedules
Consequence delivered after every response. Typically used to build or strengthen a skill
Variable schedules
Consequence delivered after some number of responses, time or interval. Typically used to maintain behavior over time
Pattern of behavior produced on fixed schedules
Unsteady responding (pause and burst)
Pattern of behavior produced on variable schedules
Steady responding
Ratio schedules
Produce higher rates of responding
Fixed ratio
Very high rates of responding
Fixed interval
Scalloped responding