QASP Exam 2023/2024 with complete
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pivotal behavior - Answer A behavior that, when learned, produces corresponding
modifications or covariation in other untrained behaviors.
Pivotal Response Training (PRT) - Answer Targets increasing social-communicative
repertoires and the child's responsiveness to the environment.
Focuses not only on language, but also on motivation, self-regulation, responding to
multiple cues, and self-initiation of social interactions
functional communication training - Answer An antecedent intervention in which an
appropriate communicative behavior is taught as a replacement behavior for problem
behavior usually evoked by an establishing operation (EO).
TEACCH - Answer A well research program used with individuals with ASD. The
program emphasizes language development and uses a variety of visual cues to
facilitate language development.
Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) - Answer Special education term used to describe
the written plan used to address problem behavior that includes positive behavioral
interventions, strategies and support. May include program modifications and
supplementary aids and services.
functions of behavior - Answer What the client is accessing or escaping by engaging
in the problem behavior
Access, attention, escape, automatic
time-out - Answer A disciplinary technique in which a child is separated from other
people for a specified time.
Should only be used if the function of the problem behavior is attention (peer, adult).
Challenging behaviors - Answer Destructive and/or disruptive such as: hitting,
screaming, biting, and swearing.
positive programming - Answer longitudinal, instructional program designed to give
the learner greater skills and competencies for the purpose of controlling or
eliminating problem behavior in order to facilitate and enhance social integration. In
this sense it is based on a functional analysis of the preventing problem and involves
the systematic manipulation of stimulus conditions, consequences, instructional
stimuli and other variables in an effort to establish the new, more adaptive behavioral
repertoire.
,positive behavior support plan - Answer Typical plans involve an objective for the
intervention, prevention strategies, replacement behaviors, reinforcers, attention to
what should not be reinforced, and ways to monitor children's progress
delivering consequences - Answer immediacy
operational definition - Answer a statement of the procedures used to define
research variables. The procedures included in definitions should be repeatable by
anyone or at least by peers.
onset and offset behavior - Answer Behavior must have a defined beginning and end
added to the definition. Doing so increases the strength of your intervention by
increasing the likelihood of accurate measurement
frequency/rate - Answer Ratio of count per observation time
baseline data - Answer information gathered by scientists to be used as a starting
point to compare changes after the implementation of the independent variable
topography - Answer what a behavior looks like
generallization - Answer intervention can only be deemed a success if change can
be shown in different environments and with multiple people
evidence based - Answer description of medical techniques or practices that are
supported by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy, rather than merely on
supposition and tradition.
advocacy - Answer Quality advocacy services are person-centered and developed
using a co-production approach that aims to maximize the participation of people
who use services and their carers
person centered planning - Answer a method of planning for people with disabilities
that places the person and his family at the center of the planning process
seeks to build a support network, increase independence and connect to the
community
Circle of support - Answer meeting of extended family, friends, service providers, etc.
to ensure well-being of a child about to age out of cps care
essential lifestyle plans - Answer ELP is a guided process for learning how someone
wants to live and for developing a plan to help make it happen. It's also:
A snapshot of how someone wants to live today, serving as a blueprint for how to
support someone tomorrow;
A way of organizing and communicating what is important to an individual;
A flexible process that can be used in combination with other person centered
techniques;
A way of making sure that the person is heard, regardless of the severity of disability.
QASP will demonstrate - Answer trustworthiness, honesty, fairness and sincerity
, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) - Answer A disorder characterized by deficits in
social relatedness and communication skills that are often accompanied by
repetitive, ritualistic behavior.
ASD deficits - Answer Social interaction, communication, repetitive/restricitive
beahviors
Triad of Impairments - Answer Deficits in reciprocal social interaction
Deficits in communication
Restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests or activities.
joint attention - Answer Joint Attention and Social Referencing. Joint attention occurs
when two people share interest in an object or event and there is understanding
between the two people that they are both interested in the same object or
event.Less likely to use gestures or eye contact as a means of sharing interest and
directing interactional partners' attention to object of interest
•Instrumental use less likely to be impaired
Autism (word) History - Answer The word "autism" comes from the Greek word
"autos," which means "self." It describes conditions in which a person is removed
from social interaction. In other words, he becomes an "isolated self."
IDEA- First recognized ASD - Answer 1990
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) - Answer when the Individualized Education
Program (IEP) is written, a determination is made regarding the amount of time each
student with disabilities will spend with nondisabled peers both in classroom and all
other school activities.
Antecedent - Answer An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or
occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
Consequence - Answer A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.
ABA- Defined - Answer The science in which tactics derived from the principles of
behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is
used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior.
A-B-C contingency - Answer antecedent, behavior, consequence
Motivating Operation (MO) - Answer An environmental variable that (a) alters
(increases or decreases) the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or
event; and (b) alters (increases or decreases) the current frequency of all behavior
that have been reinforced by that stimulus, object, or event.
Positive Reinforcement - Answer Increasing behaviors by presenting a stimuli, such
as food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that, when presented after a response,
increases the future likelihoss of that same response.
