The Functional Analysis Celeration Chart shows rate, bounce, and variability.

Three ways to increase motivation to change behavior are: Make the task easier, reduce barriers to bad behavior, bring in social support

Per Rung: steeply discounting the value of delayed outcomes is robustly correlated with addictions & poor health decision making.

It is important to teach problem solving as part of early intervention services so the skills stick around into adolescence.

Multiple choice intraverbal prompts produce similar levels of acquisition & maintenance as other prompting methods (Leaf et al. 2013)

The Functional Analysis Celeration Chart provides a numerical check with visual analysis and another check with variability.

Sleep problems in children with autism usually do not resolve with time; they require intervention.

Per Buza, having a child w/ autism ages a mom by 10 years, based on telomere length, due to the stress of raising the child to age 12.

Three areas in the compliance code most misused by practitioners: Multiple relationships, discontinuing services, and supervising others.

Three ways to increase motivation to change behavior are: Make the task easier, reduce barriers to bad behavior, bring in social support

ABA assumes that the behavior of living things follows certain principals that are true for all organisms, including humans.

Interresponse time (IRT) is the amount of time that occurs between two consecutive instances of a response class.

Skinner’s notions of verbal behavior were challenged by a colleague, who asked why he said, “No black scorpion is falling upon this table.”

B. F. Skinner taught at Indiana University from 1945-1948.

A conditioned reinforcer is sometimes called a secondary reinforcer, or a learned reinforcer.

ABA is used around the world to help all kinds of people overcome various social & behavioral problems such as quitting smoking.

Skinner selected the term “mand” because it is brief and similar to the plain English words “command”, “demand”, and “countermand”.

In 1943, Dr. Leo Kanner, an Austrian child psychologist, first identified the constellation of characteristics of autism.

Behaviors can impact the environment and become antecedents for other people’s subsequent behaviors.

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