ABA Dictionary
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- ABC Data
- Abolishing Operation
- Antecedent
- Antecedent Intervention
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Assent
- Attention-Maintained Behavior
- Automatic Reinforcement
- Automatically Maintained Behavior
- Avoidance
- Backward Chaining
- Baseline
- Behavior
- Behavior Intervention Plan
- Behavior Skills Training
- Behavior Technician
- Behavioral Momentum
- Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst
- Board Certified Behavior Analyst
- Chaining
- Choice Making
- Conditioned Reinforcer
- Consequence
- Continuous Measurement
- Continuous Reinforcement
- Differential Reinforcement
- Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior
- Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior
- Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates
- Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior
- Discontinuous Measurement
- Discrete Trial Training
- Discrimination Training
- Discriminative Stimulus
- Duration
- Echoic
- Error Correction
- Errorless Learning
- Escape
- Escape Extinction
- Escape-Maintained Behavior
- Establishing Operation
- Extinction
- Extinction Burst
- First–Then
- Fixed Interval
- Fixed Ratio
- Forward Chaining
- Frequency
- Function of Behavior
- Functional Analysis
- Functional Behavior Assessment
- Functional Communication Training
- Generalization
- High-Probability Request Sequence
- Imitation
- Incidental Teaching
- Informed Consent
- Intermittent Reinforcement
- Interobserver Agreement
- Interresponse Time
- Intervention
- Intraverbal
- Latency
- Least-to-Most Prompting
- Maintenance
- Mand
- Matching
- Measurement
- Modeling
- Momentary Time Sampling
- Most-to-Least Prompting
- Motivating Operation
- Natural Environment Teaching
- Negative Punishment
- Negative Reinforcement
- Noncontingent Reinforcement
- Operational Definition
- Pairing
- Partial Interval Recording
- Permanent Product
- Pivotal Response Treatment
- Positive Punishment
- Positive Reinforcement
- Preference
- Preference Assessment
- Premack Principle
- Prompt
- Prompt Dependency
- Prompt Fading
- Punishment
- Rate
- Registered Behavior Technician
- Reinforcement
- Reinforcer
- Reinforcer Assessment
- Replacement Behavior
- Response
- Response Class
- Response Cost
- Scatterplot
- Schedule of Reinforcement
- Shaping
- Social Reinforcement
- Social Validity
- Stimulus
- Stimulus Control
- Stimulus Generalization
- Tact
- Tangible Reinforcement
- Tangible-Maintained Behavior
- Task Analysis
- Time Delay
- Token Economy
- Total Task Chaining
- Treatment Integrity
- Trials to Criterion
- Variable Interval
- Variable Ratio
- Verbal Behavior
- Visual Schedule
- Whole Interval Recording