Principles and Practices in Applied Behavior Analysis Quiz

ABA aims to enhance socially important behaviors through systematic assessment and interventions.

Inhibition is not a fundamental principle in ABA; instead, it focuses on reinforcement, punishment, shaping, and extinction.

Positive reinforcement involves adding a reward, like a sticker, to increase the likelihood of a behavior (completing homework).

Continuous reinforcement involves reinforcing a behavior every time it occurs, leading to rapid learning.

A primary reinforcer, like food or water, is inherently rewarding and doesn't require prior learning.

Shaping in ABA involves reinforcing behaviors similar to the target behavior to guide the acquisition of the desired behavior.

A conditioned reinforcer, like praise, gains value through association with primary reinforcers and can be used to reinforce behavior.

ABC represents the three components crucial for understanding and modifying behavior: Antecedent, Behavior, and Consequence.

A discriminative stimulus indicates when a particular behavior will be reinforced, guiding behavior in specific contexts.

Task analysis involves breaking down complex behaviors into smaller steps to facilitate learning and skill acquisition.

FBA aims to determine why a behavior occurs by assessing its function, guiding effective intervention strategies.

A BIP outlines strategies to reduce problematic behaviors and enhance desirable ones through systematic intervention.

Shaping involves reinforcing incremental steps towards a target behavior, gradually shaping the behavior to its desired form.

Shaping involves reinforcing small steps towards the target behavior until the final desired behavior is achieved.

Fading involves systematically reducing prompts to promote independent performance of a behavior.

Generalization involves transferring learned behaviors to novel situations, promoting the application of skills in diverse settings.

The matching law explains how organisms distribute their behavior in response to available reinforcement, considering the ratio of rewards.

Negative punishment involves removing a desirable stimulus, like a video game, to decrease the likelihood of misbehavior.

Extinction involves withholding reinforcement to reduce the occurrence of a behavior by removing its reinforcing consequences.

A fixed ratio schedule provides reinforcement after a set number of responses, promoting consistent and predictable patterns of behavior.