Components of a Skill Acquisition Plan
What is a skill acquisition plan?
A skills acquisition plan is developed and written by a BCBA that contains information about behavior programming for the purposes of teaching certain skills.
What is unconditioned reinforcement?
Give an example of unconditioned reinforcement.
A stimulus change that can increase the future frequency of behavior without any learning history or prior pairing with any other form of reinforcement. Also known as a primary reinforcer.
food/water/warmth
What is positive punishment?
Positive punishment: occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that decreases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions.
What are the two types of schedules of reinforcement?
Continuous & Intermittent
What is DTT?
DTT is a one-to-one instructional approach used to teach skills in a planned, controlled and systematic manner.
True or False. A skill acquisition plan should include prompting strategies to be used.
True.
What is conditioned reinforcement?
Give an example of it.
A conditioned reinforcer is a previously neutral stimulus change that has acquired the capability to function as a reinforcer through stimulus-stimulus pairing with one or more unconditioned reinforcers or conditioned reinforcers.
Also known as secondary or learned reinforcers.
money, tokens, coupons, etc.
What is negative reinforcement?
Negative reinforcement involves the removal of an aversive stimulus to increase a desired behavior.
Jerry is reinforced every 4 correct math responses. What schedule of reinforcement is Jerry on?
SD
Prompt
Response
Consequence
Inter-trial interval
True or False. A skill acquisition plan does not need to list materials needed for teaching.
False.
Reinforcement _______ behavior.
Reinforcement increases behavior.
What is negative punishment?
Negative punishment is the removal of a pleasant stimulus following a behavior.
Fixed Interval FI3
Repeatedly presenting the same SD (discriminative stimulus) and R (response) pair for several trials in a row
True or False. A skill acquisition plan should include error correction procedures for when a child errors on a response.
True.
Punishment ________ behavior.
Punishment decreases behavior.
Your daughter played on her phone rather than cleaning the sink in the bathroom. You make her clean not only the sink, but the tub too. This is what kind of punishment procedure?
Positive punishment.
What is variable interval reinforcement schedule?
Reinforcement is provided with the first response after the interval. The duration of the interval varies around a specific average.
What is random rotation?
Random rotation is a procedure in discrete-trial teaching (DTT) that involves presenting mastered targets in a randomized order.
True or False. A skill acquisition plan does not need to include a generalization or maintenance plan. A supervisor will verbally tell you how.
False.
What is positive reinforcement?
Positive reinforcement: occurs when a behavior is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus that increases the future frequency of the behavior in similar conditions.
You apply sunscreen before heading to the beach to avoid getting sunburned. This is what kind of reinforcement?
Negative reinforcement.
Ally's therapist reinforces her client on average 5 responses (e.g she reinforces after the first 3 responses, then the next 6, then the next 4, then the next 7). This is what kind of schedule of reinforcement?
Variable Ratio (VR5)
What is an expanded trial?
Expanded trials involve increasing the time between repetitions of a target skill. This helps the learner practice the skill in varied contexts, making it less predictable and ensuring understanding beyond rote memory.