ABA glossary

Response maintenance

Also called maintenance

Continued performance of a behavior after some or all of the intervention that produced it has been withdrawn.

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Three months after teaching ends, Jalen still uses his visual schedule each morning.

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BCBA B.15 · Concepts and PrinciplesRecognizing response maintenance
RBT C.9 · Behavior AcquisitionTell maintenance procedures apart from acquisition procedures
BCBA G.16 · Behavior-Change ProceduresMaintaining change after intervention: schedule thinning and natural reinforcers

Acquisition procedure
Contrived reinforcers
Fixed ratio
Generality
Indiscriminable contingencies
Intermittent reinforcement

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