ABA Terminology

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Across
  1. 1. Verbal response to another persons verbal behavior, no visual cues
  2. 5. How many times behavior happens
  3. 6. Performing a learned skill over time without reinforcement or prompting
  4. 7. Repeating words or sounds others have made.
  5. 8. Information collected on learner behavior, used to determine intervention effectiveness
  6. 9. Structured, individualized strategy using behavior principles to teach new skills, promote positive behaviors, and reduce challenging behaviors
  7. 12. Reinforcing replacement behaviors
  8. 13. What a behavior looks like
  9. 17. Breaking down complex tasks into manageable, sequential steps
  10. 18. Motivating operation that is unlearned and needed for a persons survival
  11. 20. A consequence that immediately follows a behavior, increasing the likelihood of the behavior occurring in the future
  12. 24. Previously reinforced behavior is no longer being reinforced, leading to an eventual decrease in said behavior.
  13. 27. Reinforcing approximations to mold a behavior into the desired behavior
  14. 28. Any observable and measurable action or response that an individual says or does
  15. 30. Stimulus An antecedent stimulus that signals a specific behavior has reinforcement or punishment is available
  16. 33. Operation Drives the value of a stimulus, controls behavior
  17. 34. Reinforcing behaviors that can't happen at the same time as problem behavior
  18. 35. Building rapport and bond with a learner by being a source of enjoyable experiences
  19. 36. Teaching skills within a learners natural everyday environment.
  20. 37. Requesting
  21. 38. The ability to recognize and respond differently to different cues
  22. 39. Methods of teaching the steps of a task analysis
  23. 40. What happens immediately after a behavior
Down
  1. 2. What happens before a behavior occurs
  2. 3. Giving reinforcement for preferred behaviors while withholding it for non preferred behaviors
  3. 4. Behavior A behavior learned through past consequences
  4. 10. A stimulus that is temporally added to increase the likelihood of engaging in a correct response
  5. 11. Reinforcing any behaviors that are not the problem behavior
  6. 14. Structured, repetitive teaching method that involves error correction
  7. 15. Measure of how often behavior occurs over specific amount of time
  8. 16. Total time a behavior occurs.
  9. 19. Behavior being shaped by consequences (reinforcement/punishment)
  10. 21. A behavior to avoid or get out of something an individual finds aversive
  11. 22. Intervention used to teach individuals alternative ways to communicate
  12. 23. Showing someone how to do something.
  13. 25. Learning a skill in one situation and applying it to different settings, people, and places
  14. 26. Operation Weakens value of a stimulus
  15. 29. How many times behavior happens
  16. 31. Copying what someone else does.
  17. 32. Operation Strengthens value of stimulus