Response block
Physically intervening to interrupt and prevent a response from occurring. Hint: When the behavior is prevented from occurring by the addition of the thing that “blocks” it, it cannot occur… Read more
G. Behavior-Change Procedures
Response cost
A loss of a specific amount of reinforcement that is contingent on a challenging behavior.
Response differentiation
The emergence of the target novel behavior produced by differential reinforcement, during a shaping procedure in ABA, in which the reinforced members of the desired response class occur more often
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Response interruption and redirection (RIRD)
A positive punishment procedure that involves presenting demands, prompts, or distractions to interrupt and redirect repetitive, stereotypic, and self-injurious behaviors.
Response prompts
A temporary antecedent stimulus in the form of verbal instruction, a model, or physical support that is delivered close in time with the relevant SD to help the client engage
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.
Restitutional overcorrection
A positive punishment overcorrection procedure where, following the occurrence of a challenging behavior, the client is required to repair the damage caused by their behavior,and engage in additional behavior to
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.
Self-administered consequences
A self-management procedure in which one organizes specific consequences to be delivered following the occurrence or nonoccurrence of one’s own behavior to be delivered by others or by oneself.
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Self-directed systematic desensitization
A self-management procedure used to reduce anxieties and phobias that involves substituting muscle relaxation for challenging behaviors. Anxiety or fear-provoking events are ranked on an intensity scale and gradually exposed
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