ABA Therapy Questions and Answers
Graded A+
NET ✔✔Natural Environment Training - type of ABA where learning incidentally happens in
the natural environment.
HOH Prompting ✔✔Hand over hand
Active Listening ✔✔Active, effective listening as a habit
Tact ✔✔A verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal SD and followed by generalized, conditioned,
reinforcement.( Labeling or identifying an object)
Positive punishment ✔✔Adding an adverse stimulus after a behavior in order to decrease the
likelihood the behavior will occur again.
Maladaptive ✔✔Negative, bad
, Functional behavior assessment ✔✔Systematic set of strategies used to determine function or
purpose of behavior.
Baseline ✔✔Measurement of a target behavior before an interaction.
Extinction Burst ✔✔Increase in frequency of a behavior in early stages of extinction. Increase in
negative behavior.
Operational Definition ✔✔A way of defining a behavior in simple terms. Defining behavior
Fine Motor Skills ✔✔Activities that require small coordination. Using hands
(FBA) Functional Behavior Analysis ✔✔To determine the function or reason for behavior.
Behavior functions ✔✔Attention, escape, automatic reinforcement, to obtain
Generalization ✔✔Ability to learn a skill in one situation and apply its flexibility to other
different situations.
Graded A+
NET ✔✔Natural Environment Training - type of ABA where learning incidentally happens in
the natural environment.
HOH Prompting ✔✔Hand over hand
Active Listening ✔✔Active, effective listening as a habit
Tact ✔✔A verbal operant evoked by a nonverbal SD and followed by generalized, conditioned,
reinforcement.( Labeling or identifying an object)
Positive punishment ✔✔Adding an adverse stimulus after a behavior in order to decrease the
likelihood the behavior will occur again.
Maladaptive ✔✔Negative, bad
, Functional behavior assessment ✔✔Systematic set of strategies used to determine function or
purpose of behavior.
Baseline ✔✔Measurement of a target behavior before an interaction.
Extinction Burst ✔✔Increase in frequency of a behavior in early stages of extinction. Increase in
negative behavior.
Operational Definition ✔✔A way of defining a behavior in simple terms. Defining behavior
Fine Motor Skills ✔✔Activities that require small coordination. Using hands
(FBA) Functional Behavior Analysis ✔✔To determine the function or reason for behavior.
Behavior functions ✔✔Attention, escape, automatic reinforcement, to obtain
Generalization ✔✔Ability to learn a skill in one situation and apply its flexibility to other
different situations.
