ABA Therapy Exam Study Guide

ABA Therapy Exam Study Guide NET - Answer️️ -Natural Environment Training - type of ABA where learning incidentally happens in the natural environment. HOH Prompting - Answer️️ -Hand over hand Active Listening - Answer️️ -Active, effective listening as a habit Tact - Answer️️ -A verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal SD and followed by generalized, conditioned, reinforcement.( Labeling or identifying an object) Positive punishment - Answer️️ -Adding an adverse stimulus after a behavior in order to decrease the likelihood the behavior will occur again. Maladaptive - Answer️️ -Negative, bad Functional behavior assessment - Answer️️ -Systematic set of strategies used to determine function or purpose of behavior. Baseline - Answer️️ -Measurement of a target behavior before an interaction. Extinction Burst - Answer️️ -Increase in frequency of a behavior in early stages of extinction. Increase in negative behavior. Operational Definition - Answer️️ -A way of defining a behavior in simple terms. Defining behavior Fine Motor Skills - Answer️️ -Activities that require small coordination. Using hands (FBA) Functional Behavior Analysis - Answer️️ -To determine the function or reason for behavior. ©SOPHIABENNETT_2024/2025 EXAM SERIES Monday, September 2, 2024 9:52 AM Page | 2 Behavior functions - Answer️️ -Attention, escape, automatic reinforcement, to obtain Generalization - Answer️️ -Ability to learn a skill in one situation and apply its flexibility to other different situations. Negative Punishment - Answer️️ -Punishment in which an appetitive stimulus is removed. Discrimative Stimulus (SD) - Answer️️ -A stimulus in the presence of which responses are reinforced and in the absence of which they are not reinforced. Gross Motor Skills - Answer️️ -Large body movements Extinction - Answer️️ -A procedure in which the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued. Also may be used to describe the "process" by which a previously learned behavior disappears as a result of non-reinforcement. Backward Chaining - Answer️️ -A teaching procedure in which all behaviors are initially completed by the trainer except for the final behavior in the chain. Satiation - Answer️️ -Decrease in responding due to the reduced effectiveness of the reinforcer, because the person has received too much of it. Intraverbal - Answer️️ -Verbal response or patterns that are under the control of other verbal behaviors; often learn through associative learning (e.g. dog-cat; black-white, or a question followed by an answer). VB-Mapp - Answer️️ -Verbal Bx Milestones Assessment and Placement Program; 170 verbal bx milestones across 3 developmental levels and 16 different cerbal operants and related skills (one is social bx) (0-18) (18-30), (30-48) Mand - Answer️️ -Command or demand from the learner. ©SOPHIABENNETT_2024/2025 EXAM SERIES Monday, September 2, 2024 9:52 AM Page | 3 Establishing Operations (EO) - Answer️️ -A motivating operation that increases the effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or an event as a reinforcer Neurobehavioral Issues - Answer️️ -Study and treatment of behavior related too brain functioning. Partial Interval - Answer️️ -Observation is divided into brief time int