We Love Stimuli!
Do I need a Ruler for This?
What's in it for me?
Skinner would love this
What would you say you do here?
Gorgeous Graphs
Let's keep this going
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Early Learning is Primarily Influenced by this 2-Term Contingency
Behavior----> Consequence
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A teacher wants to know how many times a child throws his pencil in a school day. How should he measure this?
Event Recording/Frequency
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True or False
Regular/Periodic reassessment of preferences is an important component of a strong behavioral program
TRUE
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A verbal operant in which a person labels or describes something in the environments and recieves social reinforcement is called this..
A tact
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In ABA we strive to select instructional strategies that are proven to be effective and research based. What are these strategies called?
EBPs
Evidence Based Practices
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What are the most commonly used types of graphs in ABA
line graphs or equal interval graphs
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When a behavior returns after an intervention ends or changes this is called what?
relapse or behavioral relapse
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A stimuli that is known to evoke a particular response due to the availability of reinforcement is called this
A Discriminative Stimulus/SD
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A student has some self-injurious behaviors. On certain instances the behaviors are more mild (rubs forearm lightly) and some instances they are more severe (scratches forearm and draws blood). You want to monitor this behavior to track number of times a day the student engages in this behavior but you also want to capture how hard the student scratches. What measurement system could you use?
Frequency with an Intensity/Magnitude Scale
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A clinician is giving a preference assessment to a new client. She shows the client two items at a time and records the one he selects. What is this type of preference assessment called?
Paired Choice or Paired Stimulus
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A child's mom is on the phone. The child sees a bag of M&Ms on the counter and starts yelling. The mom gives the child the bag of M&Ms and waves the child away. The child happily eats the candy.
In this scenario, the screaming served as what verbal operant?
A mand
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True or False
When a behavior analyst selects an intervention they should include the learner and what they like into their decision making.
True
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This type of graph makes it easy to compare conditions/groups, can be used for data summaries and is good for comparing pre and post tests for group comparisons, but is not good for comparing trends or monitoring day to day progress.
Bar Graphs
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Name two things that are important to consider when planning that will promote MAINTENANCE of skills over time.
Teaching in natural settings
learner preference
practice in differing environments
using multiple exemplars of materials
Other examples may also be accepted!
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An antecedent stimuli in which environmental events or conditions alter the value of the consequence in the moment is called a...
Motivating Operation (MO)
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You are a BCBA who selected to use frequency data collection to count number of verbal outbursts for a student during math time. When you are reviewing the data, you notice that there are big differences in the frequency data when the student is with Sara vs when he is with Sola. What is one step you could take to figure out what is going on?
Revisit the definition of "verbal outburst" to ensure that both RBTs are on the same page
Fidelity data on each RBT to determine whether or not they are collecting the data the same way
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What does MSWO Stand for?
Multiple Stimulus Without Replacement
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Speaker A sings "Row Row Row Your Boat" and Speaker B responds "Gently Down the Stream!"
What verbal operant is at play here?
Intravberbal
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When a BCBA thinks about the setting where the intervention is going to take place and considers the environment could impact the implementation, what are they considering?
Instructional Context
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Your graphs might look like a behavior is happening more frequently than it actually is if you use this type of time sampling to record percentage of observed intervals in which a behavior occurred.
Partial interval time sampling
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When observers unknowingly change how they define or record behavior over time, leading to inconsistent data, this is known as
measurement drift or observer drift
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A stimuli that doesn't signal the learner that reinforcement is available is called this.
Stimulus Delta or S Delta
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A teacher gives a direction and a student is slow to respond. She decides to track data on how long it takes the student to respond so she can come up with an appropriate intervention plan. What measurement system should she use?
Latency
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You arrive for home ABA session and your client has just finished his lunch, and also had a dessert. You know that this means he probably want want to work for edible reinforcers during session. What concept/principle tells you this?
Abolishing Operations/AO
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A child sees a toy they want on a shelf and the grab the teacher's had an pull her toward it, point up and say "train". The teacher never asked what they wanted. What SPECIFIC kind of verbal operant is this?
Pure Mand
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What are some steps you can take as a BCBA to ensure cultural competence when selecting an intervention?
Talk to family, client and implementers about preferences
Research and ask questions if you are unsure about a cultural practice that was brought to your attention
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What type of graph is this?
Cumulative Record
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When a BCBA selects a program that makes good use of time and resources, their student makes good progress. We would say that this program is not only effective, but also...
Efficient
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Antecedents come before a behavior and consequences come after. Which of these two are more powerful relative to behavior change?
Consequences
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A child tantrums frequently throughout the school day. The teacher thinks it will be a good idea to use duration to track minutes of tantrums during the school days and graph the data each day. Every Friday is a half day.
What can the teacher do to ensure accurate comparison of total minutes of tantrums throughout the week?
Covert the total minutes to rate per hour
Choose to graph only a sample hour or two during the day
Graph each tantrum separately and graph duration per tantrum vs total duration per day.
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True or False
Preference assessments identify guaranteed reinforcers
FALSE
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Two kids in a class aren't paying attention to the assignment and don't know what to do. The first child asks for help and the teacher comes and shows him what to do. The second child watches but the teacher doesn't talk directly to her. The second child gets to work right away and completes the task correctly. What is this type of learning called?
Observational Learning
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As a BCBA you are asked to write a behavior plan for a student. You write the behavior plan and the teacher looks at it and says "there is no way we can implement this"
What should you do first?
Ask more questions about the challenges she perceives
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When conducting a traditional FA (functional analysis) assessment, BCBAs will usually use this type of Graph to display the results
Line Graph
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A teacher presents a series of easy-to-follow requests for which the learner has a history of compliance, then after they follow these requests in rapid sequence, she introduces a more difficult target behavior. This is referred to as..
high probability request sequence/behavioral momentum