Unit 1 Flashcards
Reasons for selecting target behavior
Helps individual achieve outcomes.
Behavior deficit makes the person too dependent on others.
Problems with behavior
Cant do vs wont do
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
Tasks for which the person has met the performance criteria set for the specific task within specific conditions
Mastered tasks
Assessments used to identify skills to target for acquisition
VB-MAPP, Essential for Living, The MOVE curriculum
Antecedent stimulus correlated with the availability of reinforcement. Stimulus that should, after teaching, evoke the correct or an appropriate response.
Discriminative stimulus
Antecedents that may temporarily increase or decrease the value of a consequence. They can be used to evoke a correct or appropriate response.
Motivating operations
Supplementary antecedent stimuli used to evoke a correct response in the presence of an EO or Sdthat will eventually control behavio
Prompts
Consequent stimuli or schedules of presentation that may result in the learner making the correct or an appropriate response more frequently
Artificial consequences and schedules
The presentation or removal of a stimulus following a response, that increases (or maintains) the future frequency of that response
Reinforcement
Reinforcement should be used to:
Get behavior goingStrengthen a dimension of an already acquired skillKeep behavior going (maintenance)
Identify appetitive stimuli (potential reinforcers)Collect baseline dataDeliver the appetitive stimulus contingent upon the target responseContinue to collect data
Using positive reinforcement
Identify aversive stimuli/conditionsCollect baseline dataRemove the aversive condition contingent upon the target responseContinue to collect dat
Using negative reinforcement
Consequence delivered after every response. Typically used to build or strengthen a skil
Continuous schedule
Consequence delivered after some number of responses, time or interval. Typically used to maintainbehavior over time
Variable schedules
Unsteady responding (pause and burst)
Pattern of behavior produced on fixed schedules
Steady responding
Pattern of behavior produces on variable schedule
Ratio schedules produce
higher rates of responding
Fixed ratios produce
very high rates of responding