Vocabulary List Flashcards
4 functions of behavior
- attention
- sensory/automatic
- access to tangible/edible item
- escape a person, place, or activity
accepting accountability
One of the core principles. we have a responsibility in designing behavior change programs. We have to be accountable when treatments do not work
According Dignity
One of the core principles, we treat clients with respect and respect their wishes
Analytic
demonstrates experimental control over the occurrence and nonoccurrence of the behavior—that is, if a functional relation is demonstrated.
Antecedent
Environmental events that occur before a behavior
Applied
investigates socially significant behaviors with immediate importance to the subject(s).
Applied Behavior Analysis
is the science where tactics derived from the principles of behavior are applied systematically to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is used to identify the variables responsible for behavior change.
Aversive procedures:
An unpleasant or stimulus, more technically, a stimulus change or condition that functions to evoke a behavior that has terminated it in the past, as a punisher when presented following behavior, and/or as a reinforce when withdrawn following behavior
BCBA Task List:
task list for skills that are common behavior analytic tasks that will be tested on the BACB exam
BCaBA
conducts assessments and can interpret results and design ethical treatment for situations and scenarios that are similar to what they encountered in supervised field work. All BCaBA’s must receive supervision at least 1 hour per month by a BCBA in order to maintain their credential (as of August 2010).
BACB
Certification Board for behavior analysts, The BACB certification procedures and content undergo regular psychometric review and validation, pursuant to a job analysis survey of the profession and standards established by content experts in the field.
Behavior Analysts
refers to individual who holds the BCBA or BCaBA credential, an individual authorized by the BACB to provide supervision, or a coordinator of a BACB Approved Course Sequences. Where Code elements are deemed relevant to the practice of an RBT, the term “behavior analyst” includes the behavior technician.
Behavior change program
a formal, written document that describes in technological detail every assessment and treatment task necessary to achieve stated goals.
Behavior-Analytic Services
services that are explicitly based on principles and procedures of behavior analysis (i.e., the science of behavior) and are designed to change behavior in socially important ways. These services include, but are not limited to, treatment, assessment, training, consultation, managing and supervising others, teaching, and delivering continuing education.
Behavioral
entails precise measurement of the actual behavior in need of improvement and documents that it was the subject’s behavior that changed.
Behavioral treatment
1) An individual has a right to a therapeutic environment
2) An individual has a right to services whose overriding goal is personal welfare
3) An individual has a right to treatment by a competent behavior analyst
4) An individual has a right to programs that teach functional skills
5) An individual has a right to behavioral assessment and ongoing evaluation
6) An individual has the right to the most effective treatment procedures available.
Being just
One of the core principles, means that you should treat others as you would like to be treated
Being faithful
One of the core principles, we should be dependable and reliable sources of wise counsel and effective, ethical treatment
Benefitting others
One of the core principles, primary role of behavior analysts is to benefit others in whatever setting or situation they are in, can put behavior analysts at odds with other professionals
BCBA
Board Certified Behavior Analyst, independent practitioner that may work independently or through an agency. The BCBA conducts descriptive assessment, functional analysis and provides behavior analytic services. Often serve as consultants. BCBA’s the only individuals’ qualified to oversee BCaBA staff according to the Behavior
Client
any recipient or beneficiary of the professional The term includes, but not limited to (a) The direct recipient of services; b) The parent, as well as others
Conceptually systematic
behavior change interventions are derived from basic principles of behavior.
Confidentiality
a situation of trust insofar as any in-formation regarding a person receiving or having received services may not be discussed with or otherwise made available to another person or group, unless that person has provided explicit authorization for release of such information.
Conflict of interest
A situation where a person in a position of responsibility or trust has competing professional or personal interests that make it difficult to fulfill his or her duties impartially.
Consent to release information
Signed document necessary before information can be released to other individuals or agencies
Consequence
Environmental events that occur after a behavior, these may be planned events (such as a time out when a child tantrums in a store) or unplanned events (items on shelf all over store floor) that may have an impact on maintaining a particular behavior of concern. Consequences are not only “negative” in nature. In the field of ABA, the term consequence also includes “positive” responses to a behavior, that occur after the behavior.
Control
Results of experiments that show that specific manipulations of one event (the independent variable) produce a reliable change in another event (the dependent variable), and that the change in the dependent variable was unlikely the result of extraneous factors (confounding variables)
Correlation
The systematic coexistence between two events can be used to predict the relative probability of one event occurring based on the presence of another event.
Crisis management procedures
Procedures to deal with crisis that are required by law in clinics or schools. Can involve crisis management training like PCMA or CPI