Vocab & Practice Exam Q/A Flashcards
Having two different relationships with one client
Multiple Relationships
What should you do if you are arrested for a minor marijuana charge?
Report to your BCBA within 30 days
Which antecedent increases or decreases the value of a consequence?
Motivating Operation
You are recording the time it takes from the presentation of the demand (Sd) to the first instance of behavior. What are you measuring?
Latency
How long the behavior occurs refers to what measurement dimension?
Duration
Real or concrete objects or outcomes that result from a behavior; does not actually have to observe the behavior for it to occur and be tracked
Permanent Product
What are the 4 functions of behavior?
Escape, attention, tangible, sensory
Determined by ABC Data
Function
The breakdown of a task into its individual components and steps.
Task Analysis
Signals that reinforcement is available.
Sd
Type of reinforcement; examples are food, water, sex, sleep; no prior learning
Primary Reinforcement
Type of reinforcement; examples are money and tokens; paired
Secondary Reinforcement
_______ increases the future likelihood of a behavior.
Reinforcement
Adding a stimulus which increases the future likelihood of behavior.
Positive Reinforcement
Verbal behavior with point-to-point correspondence; the listener repeats the speaker
Echoic
Removing a stimulus which decreases the future likelihood of behavior.
Negative Punishment
Reinforcement is delivered on the average of every 2 minutes in which the behaviors occur.
VI-2
Variable Interval
Verbal behavior of requesting
Mand
What occurs before the behavior?
Antecedent
What occurs after the behavior?
Consequences
Start with most intrusive prompt
manual guidance, gesture, modeling, no prompt
Most to least prompting
Teaching a task analysis by teaching the first step first.
Forward Chaining
Start with least intrusive prompt
Ex: no prompt, model, gesture, physical
Least to most prompting
Teaching the entire task analysis at once
Total Task Presentation
Reinforcement provided on the average of every 5 correct responses
VR-5
Reinforcement provided every 2 minutes in which behavior occurred.
FI-2
Reinforcement provided every 10 minutes that behavior occurs.
FI-10
MSWO
Multiple stimulus without replacement
FBA
Functional behavior assessment
You provide reinforcement to your client for clapping, and ignore him when he hits.
Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior
Withholding reinforcement for a target response
Extinction
Time between two successive responses.
Inter-response time
Record a + if behavior occurred at any point during the interval.
Partial Interval Recording
When attempting to assess the function of a client’s behavior, what is often considered the “gold standard” for experimentally identifying function?
Conducting an analog or naturalistic functional analysis is usually considered the best way to identify function
Providing greater reinforcement for better approximations of a target behavior, and placing other behaviors on extinction or on a less desirable reinforcement schedule.
Differential Reinforcement
Naming something in the environment
Ex: A little boy is playing with his toys in his room. Holding one of his stuffed animal dolls, he looks at it and says “Zebra!” Which elementary verbal operant does this scenario most likely describe?
Tact
Count every time it happens (mode)
Frequency
How long (length) of behavior
Duration
Instruction to response
Ex: Takes you 10 seconds to get out of bed
Latency
End of one behavior and start to another behavior
Increment Response Time (IRT)
Differential response; conversation
Intraverbal
Over exposure, less effective; decrease in behavior
Satiation
Limited exposure, more effective; increase in behavior
Deprivation
An environmental event that alters the effect of a reinforcer; alters the frequency of a behavior
Motivating Operation
MO decreases
Abolishing Operations
MO increases
Establishing operations
Teaching interaction by the child
Ex: child initiates interest in an item, teacher requests collaboration, child responds, teacher provides access
Incidental Teaching
Teacher blocks item/activity so the child can initiate for it
Contriving
Structural ABA teaching; setting is at a table
Discrete Trial Teaching
Anything you do to help the client respond correctly
Prompt
Response based
Ratio
Time based
Interval
Pleasant, add
Positive
Unpleasant, take away
Negative
Weakens behavior
Punishment
Enough detail so anyone can
Technological
Reinforcing gradual changes in behavior
Shaping
Something in the environment that either evokes or abates behavior and a signal that reinforcement is available
Discrimination Stimulus
Why is this behavior happening?
Functional
What client prefers
Preference
Groups of similar values
Systematically
Ask the client/observe
Informally
Interval time; has to occur the whole time
Whole
Moment in time
Momentarily
Help client all the way through except the last step
Backward Chaining
Control environment
Stimulus Control Transfer
Reinforce alternative behavior, extinction of bad behavior
Differential Reinforcement Alternative (DRA)
Reinforcing something else; replace
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Reinforces incompatible behavior
Ex: Sing instead of scripting
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible behavior (DRI)
Technician will record all instances of a behavior
Continuous Measurement
Technician will only record some instances of behavior as the occur through a certain time sample.
Discontinuous Measurement
Type of discontinuous measurement
Time Sampling
What are the three types of measurement procedures?
- Continuous
- Discontinuous
- Permanent Product
What are the discontinuous measurement procedures? (3)
- Whole
- Partial
- Momentary time sampling
What is an example of permanent product?
Doing your homework
Determine the cause of challenging behaviors, the develop interventions for those behaviors
Functional Assessment
A structured way of determining what items or actions would be highly motivating for a child.
Preference Assessment
What are the 5 essential components of a skill acquisition plan?
S.M.P.C.M.P
- Skill being taught
- Materials needed
- Prompting/teaching
- Consequences for response
- Mastery criteria
- Plan for generalization and maintenance
When and how reinforcement is delivered
Contingencies of Reinforcement
Reinforcement delivered for “free”, _________ ____________ because nothing has to occur for the reinforcement to be delivered.
Noncontingent reinforcement
Refers to reinforcement that gets its value by being paired with another reinforcer, like a token board
Conditioned Reinforcement
Refers to a reinforcer that doesn’t need to be paired to be valuable, such as food
Unconditioned Reinforcement
This is when a skill is broken into small, ordered steps, and is taught step-by-step
Task Analysis
The child is first given the opportunity to response with no prompts from the technician
Cold Probe
What are the 5 steps in the behavior reduction plan?
D.A.C.R.F
- Define
- Antecent Modification
- Consequence
- Replace behavior
- Function of behavior