Prompt Hierarchy
Types of Prompts
Response or Stimulus
Prompting Trivia
ABA Trivia
100

The most intrusive level of prompt for a motor imitation program

What is full physical?

100

Guiding the learner using touch or hand over hand.

What is physical prompting?

100

Using a physical prompt to guide the learner in an imitation with objects program.

What is a response prompt?

100

The gradual removal of a prompt or other help or cue for responding.

 

What is fading?

100

A non-verbal prompt for learners working on a task with multiple steps, such as getting ready for school. 

What is a visual schedule?

200

The least intrusive prompt for an echoic program


What is a partial echoic/verbal prompt?

200

Placing the correct picture closer to the learner than the others during a matching program

What is a positional prompt?


200

Pointing to the correct item in an array

What is a stimulus prompt

200

4 primary schedules of reinforcement.

What is fixed ratio, fixed interval, variable ratio, and variable interval?

200

Procedure that decreases the occurrence of a target behavior

What is punishment?

300

Prompt hierarchy starting with the least intrusive prompt and then gradually increasing the level of prompt as needed

What is least-to-most fading?


300

Providing a written schedule with pictures of the activities.

What is a visual prompt?

300

The aide models a task for the learner.

What is a response prompt?

300

The type of prompting used when teaching echoics.

What is verbal prompting?

300

An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest.

 

What is an antecedent?

400

Prompt hierarchy starting with the most intrusive prompt and then gradually fading the prompt until it is no longer necessary

What is most-to-least fading?

400

Demonstrating a response so an individual can imitate what is shown

What is a model prompt?

400

Prompts that provide additional cues or prompts to direct the learner to the correct stimulus or response. BCBAs and RBTs usually use these prompts when the correct response involves selecting a specific object.

What is a stimulus prompt?

400

The goal of prompt fading is to teach learners to _____

What is respond independently?

400

Occurs when a stimulus change immediately follows a response and increases the future frequency of that type of behavior in similar conditions.

What is reinforcement?

500

a systematic way to introduce prompts and then gradually fade them out as the learner masters a skill

What is a prompt hierarchy?

500

When vocal assistance is required for an individual to evoke a response

What is a vocal prompt?

500

Transferring stimulus control is also known as

Prompt fading

500

Name 5 types of prompts used with learners.

What is physical, model, gestural, positional, verbal, textual, and visual?

500

Teaching new behaviors by systematically reinforcing successive approximations toward the behavioral objective.

What is shaping?