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LAC RBT Day 4
Question | Answer |
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Behavior | Anything that organism does involving action and/or response to stimulation. More generally, this includes everything that a person does. For example, eating, breathing, sitting, blinking, tapping a pencil, swallowing, and talking. |
Operational Definition | Breaking a behavior definition into observable and measurable terms, so that everyone observing and tracking the behavior is consistent. |
Functions of Behavior | Sensory Escape Attention Tangible (SEAT) |
Sensory (Automatic Reinforcement) | A bx that someone does because it feels good. Some bx produce their own reinforcement- like scratching your back when it itches. Bx whose function is automatic R+ are typically in the form of a natural sensory consequence-relief of thirst, hunger, etc. |
Escape | A behavior that an individual engages in to avoid an aversive stimulus. |
Attention | The individual engages in a behavior to seek out attention from peers and/or adults. |
Tangible | A behavior that an individual engages in to gain access to an item or preferred activity. |
Punishment | Something that makes a behavior/response less likely to occur in the future. |
Positive Punishment | When a behavior/response is less likely to occur in the future due to the addition of an aversive stimuli/condition immediately following the behavior/response. |
Negative Punishment | When a behavior/response is less likely to occur in the future due to the removal of a reinforcing stimulus/condition immediately following the behavior/response. |
Extinction | No longer providing reinforcement for a previously reinforced response. |
Extinction Burst | A predictable, temporary increase in the rate and intensity of a behavior when an extinction procedure is first used. |
Spontaneous Recovery | A behavior reappears after it has decreased or stopped entirely during extinction procedures. |