Applied Behavior Analysis Basic Terms

What does it mean if a target is in acquisition?

• It is a known skill

• The student is learning the skill

• The student does not know the skill

• The student has mastered the skill

What does it mean if a target is mastered?

• The skill is unknown

• The student is learning the skill

• The student learned the skill after teaching

• It is a known skill that did not require teaching

What does ABC stand for?

• antecedent, behavior, change

• apples, bananas, carrots

• applied, behavior, consequence

• antecedent, behavior, consequence

What is an antecedent?

• A behavior that occurs

• Something that happens before a behavior

• Something that happens after a behavior

• I don't know

A behavior must be....

• observable

• internal

• measurable

What is an SD

• signals the availability of reinforcement

• I've never heard of that

• a consequence

What is a consequence?

• something that follows behavior

• something that occurs before behavior

Select the parts of a discrete trial

• inter trial interval

• consequence

• behavior

• antecedent

Providing reinforcement for closer and closer approximations of a target behavior is....

• task analysis

• chaining

• shaping