February 2023 BT In-Service

Terms

100

This type of teaching is child driven, takes advantage of the natural environment and the reinforcer is related to materials.  What is this called?

Natural Environment Procedure/Teaching 

200

A target that is in the PROCESS of being taught.  This behavior is not yet a known skill.  What is this called?

Acquisition Tasks

300

This described the target behavior and is anything that can be observed.  It is objective, clear, and complete.  What is this called?

Operational Definition

400

When a learner responds to a demand either receptively or expressively and they link several responses together.  For example-a learner is shown a photo of a firefighter and is asked "who is this"--the learner says "Doctor/Teacher/Firefighter".  What is this called?

Scrolling

500

When a reinforcer is withheld from a learner and it makes that thing more valuable.  What is this called?

Deprivation

Verbal Operants

100

This verbal Operant is when a speaker repeats what is heard.  What is this called?

Echoic

200

This verbal operant is when a listener responds to the request of a another person in the form of an action.  What is this called?

Listener Responding 

300

This verbal operant happens when a speaker label something within their environment.  What is this called?

Tact

400

This verbal operants is when the speaker responds to another speaker conversationally. What is this called?

Intraverbal

500

This verbal operant is when a listener sorts and matches like items. What is this called?

Visual Perception Match-to-Sample (VPMTS)

Prompting

100

What is it called when there are instructions, gestures, or demonstrates that we engage in to increase the likelihood that children will make correct responses. 

A Prompt

200

This type of prompt is a used by telling the learner the answer or giving a verbal cue. 

Verbal prompt

300

This type of prompt uses physical guidance to complete a task thoroughly. 

Full Physical Prompt

400

This type of prompt uses a picture/cue that the student sees.  It gives the learner information about the correct answer.  What is this prompt?

Visual Prompt

500

This type of prompt involves places the correct response closer/closest to the learner.  What is this called?

Positional Prompt

Data Collection

100

This type of data collection records how long a behavior occurs.  What is this called?

Duration

200

This type of data collection tracks the number of times that a behavior occurs. What is this called?

Frequency

300

This type of data collection measures the time that it takes for a behavior to occur after a verbal cue or event. What is this called?

Latency Recording

400

This type of data collection looks at the environment after the behavior has stopped.  what is this called?

Permanent Recording

500

This type of data collection occurs when you set at timer and when the timer is up-you observe if a behavior is occurring or not occurring.  What is this called?

Momentary Time Sampling

Situational

100

You are at a kiddos house and nobody is answering the door.  You knock for another 5 minutes and still no answer.  Who should you contact to help you figure this out?

Tay/Operations Manager

200

You are outside the center getting a client into the car.  The parent starts asking you questions about a new behavior that they have been seeing and how they should respond to it.  What should you do?

Direct the parent to that client's clinician. 

300

You have a question about how to run a kiddos new program.  What should you do?

1. Look at the program instructions and read them thoroughly. 

2. If you still are unclear on how to run the program after reading the instructions-put it in the client chat. 

3. You are still unclear about how to run the program-write down the question and during supervision ask the clinician. 

400

You have a super cool idea for the center and you know that the clinicians and OM are super overwhelmed with some things-who should you go to? 

Lead Technician(s)

500

You have a question about your past paycheck-you feel like you didn't get paid what you should have.  Who do you go to?

Human Resources.