ABAT EXAMS SCRIPT LATEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔3-part contingency: antecedents, behaviors, consequences (ABC) - ✔✔Antecedents
(AKA Proactive) are events or environments that TRIGGER behavior. This occurs
BEFORE the behavior (i.e., who, what, where, when)
Behavior is an action that is BOTH observable and measurable- described in a way an
outside observer can easily identify the action. It occurs as a result of the antecedent.
Consequence (AKA Reactive) is the response to the consumer's behavior that will either
strengthen or weakening the future likelihood of the consumer engaging in the same
behavior in the future
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔When reinforcement that is provided for problem behavior (often
unintentionally) is discontinued in order to decrease or eliminate occurrences of these
type negative behaviors
✔✔Extinction Burst - ✔✔the phenomenon of a previously reinforced or learned behavior
temporarily increasing when the reinforcement for the behavior is removed
, ✔✔Spontaneous Recovery - ✔✔occurs after the behavior starts to go away and can
happen even without reinforcement. You could be doing everything right and all of a
sudden the behavior will pop back up.
✔✔Deprivation - ✔✔The absence or reduction of a reinforcer for a period of time in
order to increase the effectiveness of the reinforcer and the rate of behavior that
produced that reinforcer in the past.
✔✔Satiation - ✔✔A decrease in the frequency of behavior presumed to be the result of
continued contact with or consumption of a reinforcer that has followed that behavior
✔✔Stimulus - ✔✔any object or event that elicits a sensory or behavioral response in an
organism
✔✔Discriminative Stimulus - ✔✔a stimulus that increases the probability of a response
because of a previous history of differential reinforcement in the presence of that
stimulus.
An environmental cue or instructions that signals that reinforcement is available for a
target behavior. (A cue is given —› the child responds —› a reward is given for a correct
response)
✔✔Stimulus Control - ✔✔a phenomenon in operant conditioning (also called
contingency management) that occurs when an organism behaves in one way in the
presence of a given stimulus and another way in its absence.
✔✔Stimulus Responses - ✔✔a sequence of two or more behaviors in which each
behavior produces a result that is the discriminative stimulus for the next behavior and
in which the last behavior is reinforced
behavior cannot exist without a stimulus of some sort.
✔✔Motivation Operations - ✔✔the motivations that encourage or discourage certain
behaviors. Their purpose is to enhance or reduce the reinforcement value. It could
impact the effectiveness of a certain event or stimulus in its role as reinforcer.
✔✔Establishing Operations - ✔✔a motivating operation that increases the value of a
reinforcer and increase the frequency in behavior that provides access to the reinforcer
(if hungry, more motivated to get food.
✔✔Setting Events - ✔✔prior events or conditions, internal or external to the individual,
that influence the probability and form of behavior presented by the individual.
✔✔Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcement: Increases the future frequency of that behavior
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔3-part contingency: antecedents, behaviors, consequences (ABC) - ✔✔Antecedents
(AKA Proactive) are events or environments that TRIGGER behavior. This occurs
BEFORE the behavior (i.e., who, what, where, when)
Behavior is an action that is BOTH observable and measurable- described in a way an
outside observer can easily identify the action. It occurs as a result of the antecedent.
Consequence (AKA Reactive) is the response to the consumer's behavior that will either
strengthen or weakening the future likelihood of the consumer engaging in the same
behavior in the future
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔When reinforcement that is provided for problem behavior (often
unintentionally) is discontinued in order to decrease or eliminate occurrences of these
type negative behaviors
✔✔Extinction Burst - ✔✔the phenomenon of a previously reinforced or learned behavior
temporarily increasing when the reinforcement for the behavior is removed
, ✔✔Spontaneous Recovery - ✔✔occurs after the behavior starts to go away and can
happen even without reinforcement. You could be doing everything right and all of a
sudden the behavior will pop back up.
✔✔Deprivation - ✔✔The absence or reduction of a reinforcer for a period of time in
order to increase the effectiveness of the reinforcer and the rate of behavior that
produced that reinforcer in the past.
✔✔Satiation - ✔✔A decrease in the frequency of behavior presumed to be the result of
continued contact with or consumption of a reinforcer that has followed that behavior
✔✔Stimulus - ✔✔any object or event that elicits a sensory or behavioral response in an
organism
✔✔Discriminative Stimulus - ✔✔a stimulus that increases the probability of a response
because of a previous history of differential reinforcement in the presence of that
stimulus.
An environmental cue or instructions that signals that reinforcement is available for a
target behavior. (A cue is given —› the child responds —› a reward is given for a correct
response)
✔✔Stimulus Control - ✔✔a phenomenon in operant conditioning (also called
contingency management) that occurs when an organism behaves in one way in the
presence of a given stimulus and another way in its absence.
✔✔Stimulus Responses - ✔✔a sequence of two or more behaviors in which each
behavior produces a result that is the discriminative stimulus for the next behavior and
in which the last behavior is reinforced
behavior cannot exist without a stimulus of some sort.
✔✔Motivation Operations - ✔✔the motivations that encourage or discourage certain
behaviors. Their purpose is to enhance or reduce the reinforcement value. It could
impact the effectiveness of a certain event or stimulus in its role as reinforcer.
✔✔Establishing Operations - ✔✔a motivating operation that increases the value of a
reinforcer and increase the frequency in behavior that provides access to the reinforcer
(if hungry, more motivated to get food.
✔✔Setting Events - ✔✔prior events or conditions, internal or external to the individual,
that influence the probability and form of behavior presented by the individual.
✔✔Reinforcement - ✔✔Reinforcement: Increases the future frequency of that behavior
