To (be)ITT or N(o)ET to be, THAT is the question!
Joey is cooking brownies with his instructor Sven. Joey is very excited and keeps commenting to Sven about the cooking. Sven asks Joey a multiple step receptive instruction to pour in the mix, pour in the water, and stir it; Joey is successful on the probe. Sven is conducting this type of teaching.
What is NET (or natural environment teaching)?
Lucy is a new client of yours. She has developed a vocal babbling repertoire, but you have not been able to harness this skill yet to teach mands. Lucy is this type of learner.
What is an early learner?
Students do not respond to other people’s names, because other people’s names represent this for their responding behaviour.
What is a neutral stimulus or an S-delta?
This can vary in task analyses that are describing the same exact skill for different learners.
What is the number of steps?
Before starting a behaviour-analytic feeding program, behaviour analysts should do this to rule out other variables.
What is rule out medical issues by consulting with a medical professional?
Teaching targets are presented with this type of structure in an ITT setting.
What is highly structured?
This verbal operant is expanded to include adjectives at the intermediate learner level.
What is manding?
Being this helps establish trust with learners while developing an instructional relationship.
What is consistent?
Marina is mixing dough to make cookies. After she finishes mixing the wet and dry ingredients together, she sees a smooth dough without any excess flour. The presence of the smooth dough represents this for successfully mixing everything together.
What is reinforcement?
This is the main reason why tangible reinforcers should not be delivered during the completion of an IAS.
What is the reduction of independence and interruption made to transitions within the schedule?
This is a common misconception about natural environment teaching.
What is that NET is simply playing while teaching; in reality, there is structure (albeit loose) and goals to hit when teaching in the natural environment.
This type of learner might practice asking WH questions in the natural environment as part of their learning.
What is an advanced learner?
When this occurs, stimuli become discriminated.
What is when there is a history of reinforcement for responding in the presence of that specific stimulus?
Steps in a behaviour chain must occur in a particular order during acquisition in order for this to be established.
What is stimulus control?
Jenny learned 1-word mands for her favourite activity ('jump' to jump on a trampoline), but is struggling with learning how to brush her teeth because this type of effort is higher with this activity of daily living.
What is response effort?
Skills are often probed in the NET to ensure that this occurs after mastery in ITT.
What is generalization?
This characteristic of a learner may differ from how old they actually are, impacting their learning abilities.
What is the learner's developmental age?
In a shaping program, previous successive approximations should contact this type of contingency.
What is an extinction contingency (no R+)?
Johnny has a hard time with learning long behaviour chains and requires fairly direct behaviour-consequence relations to learn. Therefore, his BCBA decides to use this type of chaining procedure to teach him to wash his hands.
What is backwards chaining?
Thomas used to struggle with playing by himself for extended periods of time. Once an activity schedule was introduced, this skill related to moving from station to station improved.
What is transitioning?
If these are not considered in any teaching setting or step, avoidance behaviour may occur.
What are learner preferences?
ITT plays the largest role in this learner’s programming goals.
What is an intermediate learner?
Liam is learning how to mand. Initially, he receives reinforcement for saying “baba” for “bubbles”. After a while, his IT requires the full “bubbles” articulation. “Baba” is considered this towards the terminal goal.
What is a successive approximation?
This type of data is used for chaining procedures.
What is probe data?
As Elaine begins to show independence with her activity schedule, her IT does this.
What is prompt fading?