What does PRT stand for?
Pivotal response training
Some type of prompts used in PRT often result in prompt dependency. Define this term.
When a client relies too heavily on prompts instead of responding independently.
Incidental teaching is a type of _______teaching
Naturalistic
What responses should receive the highest level of reinforcement?
Independent
Name 4 KC sports teams
Chiefs, Royals, Sporting KC, KC Current, Mavericks, Monarchs
What is the main goal of PRT?
Increasing motivation and social communication skills.
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What are the three types of prompts used in PRT?
Model, time delay and open ended
What are 2 benefits of incidental teaching?
Highly motivating to clients, promotes generalization, encourages spontaneous communication, natural reinforcement, fits easily into daily routines and play.
Define baseline and maintenance skills by including the prompting, reinforcement and error correction requirements.
Baseline: The measurement of a client’s current level of performance before any teaching strategies are taught on a skill. No prompting, reinforcement or error correction.
Maintenance: A previously mastered skill that continues to be ran to ensure it remains in the clients repertoire over time. Least to most prompting if errored, low mag reinforcement if correct
How many super bowls have the Chiefs won in the last 5 years?
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What were the years?
2
2023, 2024
Define and provide an example of a pivotal area.
A key skill that, once learned, can create positive changes across many other skills and areas of development.
Ex: A child learning to crawl
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An RBT and a client (early, minimal language) are playing with cars. Role play a PRT scenario using a model prompt.
Hold out a car and use model prompt ‘car’ -> client says ‘ca’ -> client gains access to ca
What is a situation where using incidental teaching is appropriate?
Your client is motivated by items or activities, your goal is to encourage communication, social skills or play, you want to encourage spontaneous responding
What are 2 common errors used in differential reinforcement?
Reinforcing prompted responses too strongly, ignoring incorrect responses, inconsistent implementation across RBTs, delayed reinforcement
Who are these Royals players?

Bobby Witt Jr and Salvador Perez
There are 7 main PRT components. The first one is child choice and shared control. Explain this concept.
Child selected activity but the adult needs to gain control over the item or activity in order to elicit motivation from the child to encourage responding.
What determines the clients starting point for PRT?
The clients baseline determined by the BCBA
What is situation where incidental teaching is not ideal?
The RBT wants to teach a new or complex skill, a skill that requires errorless teaching, or the client is in maladaptive behavior.
What are 3 things that makes differential reinforcement effective?
Valuable reinforcement, timing must be immediate, consistency across trials, the difference between independent and prompted responses should be noticeable
What song on the Eras Tour does Taylor Swift mention 'the guy on the Chiefs'?
Karma
PRT is a type of NDBI. What does NDBI stand for?
Naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention
Elaborate on the progression through the different levels of prompting.
Model: Modeling the ideal response
Time delay: Holding out item, pausing the activity
Open ended: Responding to the question: What do you want?
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What is the difference between incidental teaching and PRT?
The purpose of incidental teaching is to teach a specific skill in the moment as it naturally occurs (very in the moment specific). Whereas PRT the purpose is to target those pivotal areas that cause widespread improvement.
In ABA, differential reinforcement can also refer to specific procedures. Choose 3 acronyms and share what they stand for.
DRA, DRI, DRO, DRL, DRH, DRD
Alternative, incompatible, other, low rates, high rates, diminishing rates
Recording over 1,000 receiving yards in 7 consecutive seasons and regularly surprising 90 interceptions, _______ has produced wide receiver like numbers.
Travis Kelce