PROMPTING
STRATEGIES
GENERAL ABA
TEACHING
REINFORCE
100

A type of prompt that involves someone in the environment speaking in response to a student's behavior.

What is verbal prompting?

100

A breakdown of complex skills into smaller easier steps to learn. For example, shoe tying or hand washing. 

What is Task Analysis?

100

This is commonly referred to as “ABC”.

What is Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence?

100

Verbal, gestural, physical, and positional are examples of these.

What are types of prompts?

100

This is a class of reinforcers whose examples include food and water.

What is a Primary Reinforcer?

200

A form of prompting where the instructor guides the individual to complete the task.

What is full physical prompt?

200

This strategy involves creating a visual that may earn rewards.

What is Token Economy system?

200

A visual representation of data.

What is a graph?

200

Response to a behavior.

What is reinforcement?

200

This is a class of reinforcers whose examples include money, and toys.

What is a Secondary Reinforcer?

300

A form of prompting where the instructor looks or points towards any portion of the task or individual.

What a gestural prompt?

300

Brief stories that describe social situations and what others are thinking or feeling and how to behave in the specific situation.

What is social story?

300

This is what the three-letter acronym "ABA" stands for.

What is Applied Behavior Analysis?

300

Teaching the last step in the chain first.

What is backward chaining?

300

When something is added to the environment after a behavior and increases the likelihood of the behavior occurring again in the future.

What is positive reinforcement?

400

When an instructor guides any part of the individual towards the completion of the task.

What is partial physical prompting?

400

Showing the learner a video segment demonstrating how to perform a task or behavior.

What is video modeling?

400

The process of recording observable information.

What is data?

400

Teaching the first step in the chain first.

What is forward chaining? 

400

Drinks, candy, money are examples of these.

What are tangible reinforcers?

500

This is where the instructor stands back and shadows the individual giving no attention.

What is Independent?

500

Activity based instruction that promotes generalization within the normal routine.  Also known as a teachable moment.

What is incidental teaching?

500

Performance of a skill completed in more than one context or setting.

What is Generalization?

500

This strategy involves creating a visual that lays out choices for the studdent to request from

What is a Choice Board?

500

Delivering reinforcement once in a while.

What is intermittent reinforcement?

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