UNIT 1-9 Flashcards
Behavior reinforced through the mediation of other people
Verbal Behavior
Factors that influence VB - Antecedent Conditions: x4
- State of deprivation or aversive stimulation
- Some aspect of the environment
- Other verbal behavior
- Own verbal behavior
Factors that influence VB - Consequence Conditions: x2
- Related to the MOs (State of deprivation/aversive stimulation)
- Educational (Social)
Defined as a verbal operant in which the response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is therefore under the functional control of relevant conditions of deprivation or aversive stimulation.
Mand
Evoked by a particular object or event or property of an object or event.
Tact
Responses under the control of audible or written verbal stimuli supplied by another person or the speaker himself… showing no point to point correspondence with the verbal stimuli that evoke them and reinforced by a generalized conditioned reinforcer
Intraverbal
Verbal behavior under the control of verbal stimuli in which the response generates a sound-pattern similar to that of the stimulus resulting in a generalized conditioned reinforcer
Echoic
This term is intended to suggest behavior which is based upon or depends upon other verbal behavior
Autoclitic
An____________ affects the listener by indicating either a property of the speaker’s behavior or the circumstances responsible for that property
Autoclitic
An approached that teaches early communication skills using pictures
PECS
Base Elements (of the Pyramid Approach): x4
- Functional Activities
- Powerful reinforcers
- Functional communication
- Contextually inappropriate behaviors
Top Elements (of the Pyramid Approach): x5
- Generalization
- Effective lessons
- Specific teaching strategies
- Minimizing and correcting errors
- Data collection and analysis
Advantages of PECS: x4
- Requires interaction with other people from the start (social interaction)
- Encourages the individual to initiate communication rather than respond to a prompt (spontaneous)
- Starts with requesting, not commenting/labelling (Functional/reinforcing)
- Is based on Skinner’s VB
Phase I: Initiation
- Approach people to initiate communication
- To teach initiation using 2 person prompting procedure
- Teach 3-step sequence: pick up, reach, release
- One picture at a time
Phase II: Increase spontaneity and range (traveling taught)
- Increase spontaneity
- Increase distance (between adult and book) - teach traveling to CP, with book or to get book, from room to room with book
- Persistence taught
- Variety of people, activities, locations, reinforcers involved
- Teaching strategy: shaping
- Lesson type: sequential
Phase IIIA: Simple Discrimination
- Desired vs undesired items
- 4 step error correction procedure
- vary distractor pictures
- Switch switches (in the error correction procedure)
- Alternative strategies (blank card, size, distance)
Phase IIIB: Conditional Discrimination
- Discrimination between equally reinforcing items
- Conduct correspondence checks
- Use 4 step error correction procedure
Phase IV: Building Sentences
- “I want” + picture placed on a strip and whole sentence is handed over to the adult
- Student taps the symbols
- Attributes to increase length of sentences and to ask for very specific reinforcers.
Phase V: Answering “What do you want?”
- Leads to commenting
- Maintain spontaneity
- Use progressive time delay prompting strategy
Phase VI: Commenting
- Answering “What do you see/hear/feel?”
2. Discriminating between “What do you see/want?”
Successful modality transitions requires: x5
- New modality vocabulary be equal to current vocabulary
- Rate of initiation is equal
- Length of utterance is equal
- New modality is at least 80% intelligible to unfamiliar listener
- Speed of interaction is equal
Do not take skills away - unethical
Research-based benefits of use of PECS:
- Facilitates acquisition of speech
- Increases social approach during play
- Reduces behavior management targets rates
- Is easily understood in community and by peers
Topographical response form:
- saying words
- forming signs and gestures
- writing words/sound
Selection based response form:
- listener reacts by pointing/touching/typing
2. selects or gesture towards
Characteristics of Natural Science of Behavior: x6
- Inductive vs deductive
- Intimate contact with phenomenon of interest
- Focus on observable behavior and objective, operational definitions
- Use of standard, absolute units of measurement
- Experimental analysis
- Identification of functional relations
Units of measurement: everyone uses them
Standard
Units of measurement: Value does not change from one instance to the next
Absolute
Units of measurement: Apply to every instance
Universal
Units of measurement: Dimensional Quantity of Behavior x4
- Entailed in the behavior itself
- Not an abstraction
- Sensitive to changes in independent variable
- Visible to the naked eye
Essential Properties of Behavior: x2
- Count
2. Time
Count (Property of Behavior) x2
- Repeatability
2. Countability
Time (Property of Behavior) x2
- Behavior occurs in time
2. Behavior takes time to occur
Measure derived from the fundamental properties of behavior: x5
- Frequency/rate = count/time
- Latency (temporal locus)
- Duration (temporal extent)
- Celeration (count/time/time/time)
- Inter-response time
SCC moves up via:
Multiplication
SCC move down via:
Division
Celeration:
change in rate over time
Celeration = count/time/time/time
Bottom axis in Daily SCC:
Days
Thin, vertical lines in Daily SCC:
Weekdays
Top axis in Daily SCC:
Weeks
Thick, vertical lines in Daily SCC:
Sundays
Column between two Sunday lines in Daily SCC:
One week
Standard celeration fan depicts:
Standard Slopes (allows for quick comparison)
Bottom axis in Weekly SCC:
Calendar weeks
Thin, vertical lines in Weekly SCC:
Week
Thick, vertical lines in Weekly SCC:
Month
Top axis in Weekly SCC:
Months
Counting Time Floor =
1 / Minutes spent recording
Counting Time Floor (less than 1 min) =
60secs / # of seconds
OR
1 / Fraction of a minute
Charting Frequencies:
Count / # of minutes spent recording
OR
Count X Counting Time Floor
Charting Frequencies (less than 1 min) =
Count / Fraction of a minute
OR
Count X Counting Floor
Charting “Zero” frequencies:
Indicate with data point “X” or “?” below counting time floor
Charting No Chance Days:
Behavior does not have the opportunity to occur.
Do Not connect data points across no chance days.
Charting Ignored Days:
Behavior has the opportunity to occur, but is not observed or recorded.
Data points are connected across ignore days.
Behavior Floor =
1 / # of min bx can occur
Record Ceiling =
1 / # of observation minutes
Charting latency =
1 / Minutes spent recording
Use forward slash “/”
In charting latency, forward slash moving down the chart denotes
Longer latency
In charting latency, forward slash moving up the chart denotes
Shorter latency
Charting Duration =
1 / Minutes spent recording
Use backward slash “"