Pretreatment measure of behavior; rate of response in the absence of planned intervention. 4 steps in baselining:
Behavior is specified
Appropriate stimuli selection
Response Record prep
Trials are administered
Probe
Procedures to assess generalized production of responses
Shaping
Gradual modification of a behavior as reinforcement follows variations that progressively approximate a final form of the behavior
Stimulus Discrimination
Stimulus that has been often present when a response has been reinforced and comes to influence the likelihood of that response occurring
Stimulus Generalization
Behavioral process in which old responses occur to new stimuli
Instructions
Verbal stimuli/information that exerts stimulus control over the target response; describes what is expected in a task or how to produce a given response.
Prompt (vs. Cue)
Signal/primary stimuligiven by the clinician to respond to a stimulus/task; typically verbal (e.g., "Tell me about this picture") but might take the form of a gesture or a nod. Most responses require this to evoke a response.
Stimulus Control
Leveling
Adjustmentof various treatment factors to “fine tune” the learning experience of the client throughout treatment.
Provided by clinicians to present the entire response that the client is to imitate. Models might be oral-auditory (e.g., phonemes in isolation or in syllables), verbal (e.g., words, phrases, sentences), or gestural (e.g., articulatory movements, sign language).
Imitation
Relatively mimmediate reproduction of a significant portion of someone's preceding behavior