ABA 633: Behavioral Interventions - Week One Lecture Flashcards

This set of vocabulary flashcards covers the fundamentals of Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA), function-based interventions, the principles and applied effects of Extinction, and the basics of Differential Reinforcement as presented in ABA 633 Week One.

Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)

An assessment used to determine antecedents (setting events, MOs, and discriminative stimuli) and consequences (social or automatic reinforcement) that strengthen and/or maintain problem behaviors.

Indirect FBA

A functional behavior assessment method involving record reviews, interviews, and formal questionnaires such as the FAST, MAS, and QABF.

Direct FBA

An assessment method involving observation of behavior in the natural setting, often using ABC data.

Functional Analysis

The systematic manipulation of potential controlling variables; it is the only FBA method that can determine the actual function of a behavior.

Arbitrary intervention

An intervention that is not linked to the maintaining function of the behavior, such as providing snacks for compliance when the behavior is maintained by escape.

Function-based intervention

An intervention that addresses the behavior's function by either withholding the maintaining reinforcer, modifying antecedents to reduce motivation, or providing the reinforcer for an appropriate behavior.

Extinction (EXT)

A procedure involving the discontinuation of reinforcement of a response, resulting in a reduction in responding.

Resistance to Extinction

The ease or speed with which a response undergoes the process of extinction, measured by the number of responses/response rate or time to meet the extinction criterion.

Extinction Burst

The temporary increase in frequency, intensity, or duration of a target behavior at the onset of extinction; applied research indicates they occur in approximately $24\%$ of cases.

Extinction-induced aggression

An indirect effect of extinction where the removal of reinforcement elicits emotional behavior in the form of aggression.

Behavioral contrast

A phenomenon where exposure to extinction in the presence of one stimulus causes an increase in the response in the presence of another stimulus associated with continued reinforcement.

Resurgence

Increases in other previously reinforced responses that return during the extinction process, not necessarily believed to be associated with emotion.

Spontaneous Recovery

The temporary reappearance of a behavior after an apparent extinction process has been completed, appearing several times with decreasing strength each time.

Disinhibition

A reappearance of behavior similar to spontaneous recovery, but specifically triggered by the introduction of a novel stimulus.

Partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE)

The principle that partial or intermittent reinforcement schedules generally lead to greater resistance to extinction than continuous reinforcement.

Planned ignoring

A term describing a procedure, though not the process or specific reinforcer, commonly associated with the extinction of attention-maintained behavior.

Escape extinction

A procedure used for behavior maintained by social negative reinforcement where escape is no longer provided contingent on a response, often through the continuation of demands.

Sensory extinction

A term for the process where a sensory reinforcer produced by automatically reinforced behavior is cut off or blocked.

Response effort

A factor that is generally negatively correlated to resistance to extinction, where high effort requirements result in less resistance.

Differential Reinforcement

An intervention providing different schedules or qualities of reinforcement for different behaviors so that one behavior increases (adaptive) and another behavior decreases (problem behavior).

Matching Law

The principle suggesting that we allocate our responses to the better schedule of reinforcement, including denser schedules, less effort, or higher quality.