Prompt Hierarchy
The most intrusive level of prompt for a motor imitation program
What is full physical?
Guiding the learner using touch or hand over hand.
What is physical prompting?
Role play the intraverbal target "A cow says..." with your partner using the least intrusive verbal prompt.
What is "Mm"?
The gradual removal of a prompt or other help or cue for responding.
What is fading?
A non-verbal prompt for learners working on a task with multiple steps, such as getting ready for school.
What is a visual schedule?
The least intrusive prompt for an echoic program
What is a partial echoic/verbal prompt?
Placing the correct picture/item closer to the learner than the others during a matching program
What is a positional prompt?
Role play the gross motor imitation "clap hands" with your partner using the most intrusive physical prompt.
What is a full physical prompt?
4 primary schedules of reinforcement.
What is fixed ratio, fixed interval, variable ratio, and variable interval?
Procedure that decreases the occurrence of a target behavior
What is punishment?
Prompt hierarchy starting with the least intrusive prompt and then gradually increasing the level of prompt as needed
What is least-to-most fading?
Providing a written schedule with pictures of the activities.
What is a visual prompt?
Role play the receptive identification target "touch blue" fo3 using a gesture prompt.
What is pointing?
The type of prompting used when teaching echoics.
What is verbal prompting?
An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
What is an antecedent?
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?
Demonstrating a response so an individual can imitate what is shown
What is a model prompt?
Role play the matching target "match red" fo3 using a positional prompt.
What is placing red closest to learner?
The goal of prompt fading is to teach learners to _____
What is respond independently?
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?
a systematic way to introduce prompts and then gradually fade them out as the learner masters a skill
What is a prompt hierarchy?
When vocal assistance is required for an individual to evoke a response
What is a vocal prompt?
Role play the fine motor imitation "pointing" using a partial physical prompt.
What is tapping pointer finger forward?
Name 5 types of prompts used with learners.
What is physical, model, gestural, positional, verbal, textual, and visual?
Teaching new behaviors by systematically reinforcing successive approximations toward the behavioral objective.
What is shaping?