Behavior Analysis Concepts

The science in which the procedures derived from the study of behavior are applied to produce meaningful improvements in socially significant behaviors

• Behavioral Psychology

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

• Social Learning Theory

Any consequence that decreases the frequency of a response occurring in the future

• Reinforcement

• Punishment

• Neglect

• Reward

A stimulus that comes before a response

• Antecedent

• Consequence

• Reinforcer

• Punisher

Behavior that is elicited by an antecedent

• Operant behavior

• Respondent behavior

• Reflexive behavior

• Conditioned behavior

The amount of time between the onset of a stimulus and the response

• Latency

• Duration

• Frequency

• Amplitude

Providing reinforcement for a behavior that is of a different form but serves the same function as a target behavior

• Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA)

• Positive reinforcement

• Negative reinforcement

• Punishment

The removal of the student from a reinforcing activity to observe others for a fixed amount of time

• Exclusionary time-out

• Inclusionary time-out

• Positive reinforcement

• Negative reinforcement

ABA is designed to improve socially significant behavior

• Applied

• Basic

• Behavioral

• Analytical

An environmental condition when a previously reinforced behavior is no longer reinforced

• Reinforcement

• Extinction

• Punishment

• Habituation

Founder of Radical Behaviorism

• B.F. Skinner

• John Watson

• Ivan Pavlov

• Albert Bandura