ABA Basics | Motivation | Positive and Negative Reinforcement | Scenario |
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What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
ABA
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What is Satiation?
The condition of being full or beyond satisfaction. ( too much)
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What is positive reinforcement?
Adding a preferred item/activity that increases behavior
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Extinction
Jay screams when left alone on the playground. Each time, his teachers come up to him and ask him what is wrong. They realize he is doing it for their attention. They begin ignoring the behavior. Jay initially screams more, but gradually stops when he realizes it does not have the effect he was looking for.
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What is three-term contingency?
Antecedent -Behavior -Consequence
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What is deprivation?
The condition of having too little or not enough
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Negative Reinforcement
Any consequence of behavior whose removal leads to an increase in the rate of the behavior
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Differential Reinforcement
Giving a child a small piece of cookie when verbal prompts and whole cookie when no prompting needed
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What is Behavior?
Observable and Measurable
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What is a primary reinforcer?
A type of reinforcer a person is born needing
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Shaping
Method of reinforcing successive approximations in order to teach a behavior has been found to be effective in both humans and animals.
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Sd (Discriminative Stimulus)
The ABA instructor gives Johnny the instruction, "Touch your head." This is the term that the instruction refers to
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What is the dead mans test?
If a dead man can do it then it is not a behavior
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What is a secondary renforcer?
A stimulus that has acquired a reinforcing value through pairing with a primary reinforcer.
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Extinction
occurs when the reinforcing consequence to a particular behavior is removed from the environment
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Secondary
Susan goes to the grocery store, picks out various food items to cook for dinner that night, and proceeds to pay the clerk at the cash register. This is an example of this type of reinforcement (Primary or Secondary?)
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Who is B.F. Skinner?
The Father of ABA
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What is a setting event?
Events that happen before the antecedent or trigger for the challenging behavior.
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Operant Conditioning
The target behavior is followed by reinforcement or punishment to either strengthen or weaken it, so that the learner is more likely to exhibit the desired behavior in the future.
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