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Study Activity-ABA
Term | Definition |
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Behavior | Must be observed, measured, and effect the environment |
ABA | The ONLY researched based intervention to target socially significant behavior for children and adults with autism |
Consequence | An environmental event that immediately follows a response |
Automatic/Sensory | Reinforcement occurs independent of the environment |
Access to Tangibles | Behavior is maintained by access to preferred items/activities |
Positive Reinforcement | Adding something to the environment to increase the future probability of the behavior |
Reinforcement | A tangible item, attention or a change in the environment immediately follows a response and increases the future frequency of that type of behavior in similar conditions. |
Partial Physical | Second favorite toys or snacks, still enthusiastic but toned down a bit |
Satiation | The client has contacted an item repeatedly and is no longer motivated by the opportunity to receive that item |
Forced Choice Preference Assessment | Present the child with two items, one in each hand, that they typically are motivated by |
Generalization | When a child’s abilities or skills expand beyond the scope that it has been specifically taught |
Mands | Requests for preferred edibles, activities, or information |
Discrete trial training (DTT) | A manner of structured teaching and is often used in ABA programs especially with children with autism or related development delay |
Instructional Control | When the client readily complies with your instructions. The session is led by the tech, not the child |
Discriminative Stimulus | The instruction given to begin a trial |
Scripting | Repetition of words, phrases, intonation, or sounds of the speech of others, sometimes taken from movies, but also sometimes taken from other sources such as favorite books or something someone else has said |
Punishment | Decreases behavior either by adding something or taking something away |
Prompt | This form of assistance or cue given to help your child compete a task |
NET | Is a type of ABA where learning occurs incidentally in the natural environment |
Intervention | This is the plan of action or the strategy you will use to change a behavior |
HIPAA | A law that protects a patient's privacy |
Extinction | The withholding of reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior, resulting in reduction of that behavior |
Elopement | When a child wanders away from a person, or an area they are supposed to stay in |