Skill Acquisition Part 1
Measurement
Behaviour Reduction and Professional Conduct
Assessment & Behavior Reduction
Skill acquisition Part 2
100
There are essential components of a written skill acquisition plan (i.e. Treatment Plan). These include..
What are Goals/Objectives; Treatment Procedures; Data Collection/Measurement Procedures (Mastery Criteria) BONUS 50: Generalization Strategies?
100
This is how you measure how many times a behavior has been observed.
What is frequency data?
100
When a behaviour decreases due to contingencies.
What is punishment?
100
In ABA, the B stands for "behavior" and must always be 2 things.
What are observable and measurable?
100
An antecedent stimulus given before or during the performance of a behaviour.
What is a prompt?
200
When a behaviour increases due to contingencies.
What is reinforcement?
200
This is how you measure how long a behaviour occurs.
What is duration?
200
Alice is Anna's BCBA supervisor, but they are also room mates. This kind of relationship is not necessarily a bad thing, but Alice must be very careful to establish boundaries.
What is a dual relationship
200
What does ABC stand for?
What are Antecedent, Behaviour, Consequence? BONUS: 200pts - Define each of these!
200
A prompt that operates directly on the response. It is the behaviour of another person that evokes the desired response in the presence of the SD.
What is a response prompt?
300
Ed sits in his seat at the table and waits for instructions from his therapist. The teaching block starts and the therapist begins presenting demands in quick succession with no break, which is really bothersome to Ed. He begins to scream and bang the table and the therapist asks Ed if he would like a break to play with his toy. Ed experienced something that will likely result in him screaming and banging the table sooner in future teaching blocks.
What is negative reinforcement?
300
Every 5 minutes, you are recording whether or not Erica is staying seated at circle time for the entire 2 minutes over the course of a 10-minute lesson and then calculating how much time she remained seated. You are using what type of recording procedure?
What is whole interval recording?
300
The person or entity to whom we report any knowledge or suspicion of abuse or neglect.
Who is BCBA and/or CAS?
300
Mary is trying to do a manding block with her client, but he does not seem to be motivated by any of the toys she has brought to the session. She has no idea how to engage him so it's probably time for her to do this to determine what reinforcers might work.
What is a preference assessment?
300
A specific sequence of discrete responses, each associated with a particular stimulus condition.
What is a behaviour chain?
400
Kim is experiencing behavioural phenomenon that has led her to being completely addicted to slot machines. Approximately every 10 pulls, she wins some money, sometimes more, sometimes less. Unfortunately, Kim is down about $300, but that doesn't stop her because that next pull could be the big one.
What is a variable or intermittent schedule of reinforcement?
400
You are keeping track of how worksheets were completed and correct in a 10-minute time period so that you can track Pete's progress with completing independent worksheets correctly. What type of recording are you using?
What is permanent product recording?
400
A definition of a behaviour where the outcome or function of the behaviour is most important. E.g., “hands ready” = hands not touching materials
What is a functional or function based definition?
400
James want to get Cece to stop using swear words in the cafe so he decides that when she is NOT using swear words, he will provide reinforcement by telling her he likes how she is talking to him and he really appreciates the positive words. This kind of procedure is meant to decrease the undesired behaviour and increase a replacement behaviour.
What is a DRO? BONUS - 200: What does it stand for?
400
A teaching procedure used for skills that are on acquisition and are newly introduced.
What is errorless teaching?
500
Jennifer has learned to say "Hi" to people every time she sees them. Unfortunately, she is saying "Hi" to people she works with many times within a shift at her job at Safeway, which is perceived as odd by her fellow employees and her manager. She must now learn to only say "Hi" to staff and her manager the FIRST time she sees them each day, not every time she sees them. This procedure should be used to teach her this skill.
What is discrimination training
500
You want to create a graph showing how often Brad screams during class over 14 classes. You are looking for a decreasing trend and want to see the data from each class. How should you graph this data?
What is a line graph? BONUS - 100: What are your axis labels?
500
Experimental manipulation of at least TWO conditions in which some event is manipulated.
What is a functional analysis?
500
Whenever an ITT block starts, Wayne gets fidgety and irritable and tends to walk away from the table. One day, the instructor had music playing softly prior to and at the start of the ITT block. This seemed to help Wayne settle into the table successfully. After that, the instructor used the music and other preferred activities each ITT block to provide a more positive learning environment for Wayne. This procedure can often work just as well as a reinforcement procedure.
What is an establishing operation?
500
Differential reinforcement of successive approximations of a target behaviour.
What is shaping?
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