Vocabulary Flashcards
Positive behavior supports
Behavior management system that focuses on behavior change that increases positive behaviors and decreases negative behaviors
Reinforcement
Any stimulus that is added or removed that increases likelihood of that behavior occurring in the future
Positive reinforcement
Adding stimulus
Increases behavior
Negative reinforcement
Removing stimulus
Increases behavior
ABC Contigency
Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence
Antecedent
What happens before the behavior
Behavior
What the action looks like
Consequence
What happens after the behavior
Operational definition
How to define behavior that is clear, measurable, and objective. Anyone reading the definition can understand and observe the behavior
Echoic
Verbal operant
Vocal stimulus
Point to point verbal response
Mand
Verbal operant
Occurs under conditions of deprivation/aversive control
Reinforced by the stimulus manded for or removal of a stimulus
Not reinforced by praise
Tact
Verbal operant
Occurs under non-verbal stimulus control such as an object or picture
Reinforced by praise
Intraverbal
Verbal antecedent followed by verbal responses
Can be between individuals (not point to point)
Or in a self dialogue
Autoclitic
Adjective/adverb that modifies the effects of mand and tact operants
Specification, quantification, etc.
Extinction
Removal of all reinforcements for a behavior
Punishment
Adding or removing stimulus that results in decreased behavior in the future.
Imitation
Point to point response to an antecedent
Functions of behavior
Purpose of the behavior
Usually to escape or access something
Functionally equivalent behaviors
Behaviors that serve the exact same functions as one another
Differential reinforcement
Reinforcing one behavior and extinguishing another simultaneously
DRO
Differential reinforcement of other behaviors. Reinforcing any behavior that’s not the problem behavior
Replacement behavior
Behavior learned/taught to replace the problem behavior
Shaping
Systematically and differentially reinforcing successive approximations to a target behavior
Chaining
Sequence of behavior that are lined together
Forward chaining
Beginning to end
Backwards chaining
End to beginning
Task analysis
Breaking down complex skill or series of behaviors into smaller units
Generalization
Learner is able to access the learned repose across different instructors and environments
Maintenance
Learner continues to perform the target behavior after a portion of intervention has been stopped
Event recording
Count of behaviors as they occur
Interval recording
Measuring the behavior within specific time intervals
Partial interval recording
Recording presence/absence of behavior at any time during the interval
Whole interval recording
Behavior must be present during entire interval
Duration recording
Monitoring how long behavior is engaged by individual
SD or Discriminative stimulus
Antecedent stimulus that occurs before the reinforced response
Response
Behavior as a result of the SD
Establishing operations
Environmental event
increases the monetary effectiveness of anything as a form of reinforcement
Increases the freq of any behavior that followed that as a reinforcer
Permanent product
Any tangible item directly tied to human performance
Momentary time sampling
Dividing observation period into series of intervals. Record whether behavior is occurring at the end of interval
