ABA glossary

Planned ignoring

Deliberately withholding attention after a behavior maintained by attention, as specified in the plan; an extinction procedure when attention is the maintaining reinforcer.

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The RBT keeps a neutral face and does not comment when Zane makes rude noises.

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RBT D.4 · Behavior ReductionCarry out extinction procedures
RBT D.5 · Behavior ReductionCarry out positive and negative punishment procedures, such as time-out

Contingent observation
Escape
Escape extinction
Exclusionary time-out
Extinction
Extinction burst

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