Using ABA

Question 1

A person’s behavior is influenced by their _____

Answer 1

environment

Question 2

What is the environment?

Answer 2

Everything that happens around the person
* Ex: our behavior, parents’, siblings and peer’s, and everything else

Question 3

What’s the ABCs?

Answer 3

Antecedent - Any stimulus before behavior
Behavior
Consequence - What happens after (most foundational part of the environment, impact virtually all behavior)
* Known as 3-term contigency

Question 4

What is the Law of Effect?

Answer 4

1.) Behaviors followed by preferred consequences will be increased in the future
2.) Behaviors followed by non-preferred consequences will decrease in the future

Question 5

What is reinforcement?

Answer 5

• Reinforcement is anything that follows a behavior that increases the frequency of that behavior in the future
• Can work for positive and negative behaviors
• Reward does not equal reinforcement; the reward has to be desired or preferred to reinforce them
• If you do something and you get what you want, you will do it again

Question 6

What is behavior reduction?

Answer 6

When you receive something you don’t want, you won’t do it again