Summary ABA Therapy

NET - answer-Natural Environment Training - type of ABA where learning incidentally happens in the natural environment. HOH Prompting - answer-Hand over hand Active Listening - answer-Active, effective listening as a habit Tact - answer-A verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal SD and followed by generalized, conditioned, reinforcement.( Labeling or identifying an object) Positive punishment - answer-Adding an adverse stimulus after a behavior in order to decrease the likelihood the behavior will occur again. Maladaptive - answer-Negative, bad Functional behavior assessment - answer-Systematic set of strategies used to determine function or purpose of behavior. Baseline - answer-Measurement of a target behavior before an interaction. Extinction Burst - answer-Increase in frequency of a behavior in early stages of extinction. Increase in negative behavior. Operational Definition - answer-A way of defining a behavior in simple terms. Defining behavior Fine Motor Skills - answer-Activities that require small coordination. Using hands (FBA) Functional Behavior Analysis - answer-To determine the function or reason for behavior. Behavior functions - answer-Attention, escape, automatic reinforcement, to obtain Generalization - answer-Ability to learn a skill in one situation and apply its flexibility to other different situations. Negative Punishment - answer-Punishment in which an appetitive stimulus is removed. Discrimative Stimulus (SD) - answer-A stimulus in the presence of which responses are reinforced and in the absence of which they are not reinforced.