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Intro to ABA
Chapters 1 & 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Teaching | Designing circumstances that change the way other individuals feel and behave |
| Science | The systematic study of relations between events, and the formation of those relations into scientific laws |
| Operant Behavior | Behavior that operates on the environment and is controlled by it's immediate effects. |
| functional assessment | A procedure that identifies antecedents and postcedents of specific actions to locate factors likely to be related to the occurrence of a particular behavior. |
| Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) | The engineering side of the science of contingency relations. Behavior analysts analyze and adjust contingencies to improve behavior. |
| Response to Intervention (RtI) | Requires specifying particular skill or performance deficit and assessing progress once changes are implemented. |
| behavioral objective | A statement of actions students should exhibit by the end of a unit of instruction (Also called performance objectives) |
| Fluency | A combination of speed, smoothness, and accuracy of performance, recorded as number correctly performed per unit of time |
| Rate (or Frequency) | A count of actions divided by the time period over which the count was taken |
| divergent | Goals that encourage unique methods |