Behavior ManagementOnline version

Terms learned in our Behavior Management course.

by Holly Karraker
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Starts with A

events that trigger behavior

Starts with B

teaching a task beginning with the last step and then in descending order (next to last step, third from last step, etc.) [2 words]

Starts with C

the result of a behavior

Starts with D

used to determine the length of time that a student engaged in a behavior [2 words]

Starts with E

principles of conduct governing us as individual professionals as well as members of our discipline

Starts with F

a procedure used to systematically remove instructional prompts, allowing a behavior to occur under natural conditions

Starts with G

transferring learned behaviors to new settings

Starts with H

a rationale for, or a best guess about, the functions of a behavior

Starts with I

involves dividing an observation period into smaller, equal units of time [2 words]

Starts with J

Teachers often give verbal praise. For example, a teacher might say, Great ___!

Starts with K

the grade between preschool and first grade

Starts with L

Bandura is associated with the social ___________ model.

Starts with M

the means by which behavior is learned through observation; commonly associated with social learning theory

Starts with N

occurs when a target behavior is followed by the removal of an aversive stimulus; this is often misunderstood and confused with punishment [2 words]

Starts with O

Skinner's term for behaviors that are controlled by their consequences

Starts with P

a type of positive reinforcement in which a high probability behavior is used to reinforce a low probability behavior (after you do X, you can do Y); commonly referred to as Grandma's Law [2 words]

Starts with Q

According to Schalock (2000), ______________________ is a concept that reflects a person's desired conditions of living related to eight core dimensions of one's life... [3 words]

Starts with R

the delivery of a consequence following a behavior that increases the future probability of the behavior occurring

Starts with S

reinforcement of successive approximations of a target behavior

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the specific behavior being addressed [2 words]

Starts with U

a concept originated in architecture that educators use to engineer learning environments, including how instruction is designed and delivered [2 words]

Starts with V

a theorist associated with the ecological model; believed children learn by engaging in activities that they enjoy and by working with other children who are more skilled at a particular task

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a researcher who coined the term behaviorism, emphasizing the relationship between environmental events and the responses they produced

Contains X

occurs when a previously reinforced behavior is no longer reinforced

Starts with Y

the only behavior you can truly control [2 words]

Starts with Z

Vygotsky's term for the distance between a student's current performance level and optimal performance levels [4 words]