Instructional Procedures
Where do you find an instructional procedure?
In the client's binder
What does FR stand for?
Fixed ratio
What is prompting?
Assistance/help provided to your learner to complete task
What are the 4 functions?
Attention
Access
Escape
Sensory
An observable and measurable act an organism does, including covert actions.
Behavior
What is an instructional procedure used for?
Instructions of how to run that specific program
What was VI or FI stand for?
What is a model prompt?
You showing the client how to do the target behavior and they imitate that behavior.
Your client screams when you are talking to another tech. You immediately stop talking to the tech and engage with your client. Client stops screaming.
Attention
Max reinforcement delivered for the desired behavior while reinforcement is either withheld or lessened for prompted responses.
Differential reinforcement
What does the technician write on the instructional procedure?
Start date and mastery date
What does FR3:4 min mean?
What type of prompt is considered the MOST intrusive?
Full physical prompt
Your client bangs on the table with their hands very loudly during their reinforcement time. You have been actively engaged with your client and they have the iPad readily accessible to them. No demands have been placed. Client does not look up or comment about banging.
Sensory
A process utilized to teach a new behavior by reinforcing successive approximations to the target behavior.
Shaping
What does it mean when an IP says "Run concurrently"
Run more than one target at a time
What does VI 3 minutes mean?
Work on average of 3 minutes; different time every interval
List least to most prompting hierarchy
Gesture/Point
Model
Verbal
Partial physical
Full physical
Your client is moving toy cars across their eyeline and repeatedly spins the wheels on the car while making loud, scream-like vocalizations. Your client does not engage in this behavior while completing work and this behavior does not cause a disruption to others. How do you respond?
You don't
Temporary increase in a behavior when extinction is first implemented (behavior will get worse before it gets better)
Extinction Burst
What are 3 components/categories in an instructional procedure?
Mastery criteria
Field of targets
Data collection
Error correction
When to provide reinforcement
When you need to pause the timer during a VI work interval, how do you record that data?
MINUS
What is prompt fading and why is it important?
Gradually reducing intensity of prompting to promote independence.
Important to prevent prompt dependency
During independent work, a learner begins yelling and knocking materials off the table. The teacher removes the task from learner and begins talking to the learner to calm them down. The behavior continues across sessions and over time. What is the function?
Escape and Attention (Multiply controlled)
When the behavior is more likely to occur in the presence of a SPECIFIC antecedent stimulus because that behavior has been reinforced in that context in the past.
Stimulus Control