Contrived contingency
A reinforcer or punisher that is delivered by a practitioner to evoke changes in behavior or the acquisition of skills.
G.1 Design and evaluate positive and negative reinforcement procedures.
Functional communication training (FCT)
A differential reinforcement procedure that trains an alternative communication response to replace a functionally-equivalent challenging behavior.
High-probability instructional sequence
An antecedent intervention used for increasing compliance and reducing escape-maintained behaviors. It involves presenting two-to-five high-probability compliance tasks, reinforcing compliance for those tasks, and then presenting a demand less likely
Naturally existing contingency
A natural consequence (reinforcement or punishment) that follows a behavior without any environmental manipulation by a practitioner.
Premack Principle
A strategy that uses behavior as reinforcement by making the opportunity to engage in preferred behavior contingent on engaging in a low-preference behavior.
Response-deprivation hypothesis (RDH)
The belief that any behavior can act as a reinforcer if access to that behavior is restricted. In practice, this occurs when deprivation of a certain activity, achieved by making it
Response-deprivation hypothesis (RDH)
The belief that a low-probability behavior can act as a reinforcer to evoke a higher-probability behavior if access to the less-preferred behavior is restricted below baseline levels.
Seclusion time-out
A type of time-out procedure in which the client is placed in a time-out room for a time period and locked in.