Antecedent Strategies
This type of strategy happens before the behavior and helps reduce problem behavior.
What is an antecedent strategy?
This is a consequence strategy where undesired behaviors are blocked from occurring safely.
What is response blocking?
Recording how often a behavior occurs is known as this type of measurement.
What is frequency recording?
This term refers to breaking a skill into smaller, teachable steps.
What is task analysis?
A therapist physically guides a client through a hand-washing routine during every session but never reduces assistance. After several weeks, the client does not complete any steps independently. What skill acquisition error is occurring?
What is prompt dependence?
Using a picture schedule, first/then boards, or visual timers are all examples of this way to support children before the behavior occurs.
What are visual supports?
Preventing a behavior from producing its usual outcome, so the behavior decreases over time, is called this.
What is extinction?
Measuring how long a behavior lasts each time it occurs is called this.
What is duration recording?
This term means providing help before the learner makes an error.
What is errorless learning?
An RBT teaches a child to label “dog” only using flashcards at the table. The child correctly labels dogs on cards but does not label a dog at the park. What skill acquisition concept is missing?
What is generalization?
Letting a child pick between two options or adjusting the difficulty level is an example of this approach.
What is providing choices or task modification?
Immediately redirecting a child to a preferred activity or task after problem behavior uses this type of strategy.
What is redirection?
This type of data collection notes whether a behavior occurs during specific, predefined intervals.
What is interval recording?
This teaching method involves presenting a clear instruction, waiting for a response, and delivering a consequence.
What is Discrete Trial Training?
During teaching, the RBT immediately models the correct response after giving the instruction, preventing the client from making an error. What teaching strategy is being used?
What is errorless learning?
Giving a warning before a change or preparing a child for a new event is called this.
What is priming?
Ignoring attention-seeking behavior while still teaching appropriate alternatives is called this.
What is planned ignoring?
This data collection method requires marking each time a specific behavior occurs during an observation period.
What is event recording?
This term describes reinforcing closer and closer approximations of a target behavior.
What is shaping?
A client is learning to put on shoes. The RBT completes all steps except having the client pull the shoe strap at the end, which the client does independently. What teaching procedure is this?
What is backward chaining?
This technique increases the likelihood a child will comply with harder tasks by first asking for several easy, high-probability requests.
What is behavioral momentum?
This approach teaches a new, appropriate behavior that serves the same function as the problem behavior while reducing the problem behavior itself.
What is differential reinforcement (DRA)?
When a client performs a target skill only after receiving assistance, this type of response is recorded to differentiate between learning with support and independent mastery.
What is a prompted response?
This term refers to the learner performing a skill across different people, settings, or materials.
What is generalization?
A client is taught to say “juice” by first reinforcing any vocalization, then “ju,” and eventually the full word. What skill acquisition strategy is being used?
What is shaping?