CARD Exam 1 BCAT Study Guide with Complete Solutions
ABA - Answer✔️✔️-Applied Behavior Analysis
Core Principles of ABA - Answer✔️✔️-Desirable consequences increase
behavior, undesirable consequences decrease behavior.
3 term contingency - Answer✔️✔️-Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence
Behavior Analysis - Answer✔️✔️-The study of the principles of behavior
behavior - Answer✔️✔️-Anything someone says or does
Stimulus - Answer✔️✔️-Any physical object or event that someone can see,
hear, smell, touch, or taste.
environment - Answer✔️✔️-All of the events and stimulus which affect the
behavior of an organism.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) - Answer✔️✔️-Pervasive developmental
disorder which significantly affects individuals across multiple areas of
abilities.
3 Primary areas of ASD - Answer✔️✔️-Problems w/ social communication,
problems w/ social interactions & presence of restrictive or repetitive
behaviors/interests.
Diagnosis of ASD - Answer✔️✔️-Prior to age 3, impact, can't be better
explained by anything else.
Goal for treatment of ASD - Answer✔️✔️-Maximize each learners strengths.
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Discrete Trial - Answer✔️✔️-Structured teaching method consisting of clear
and direct presentation of learning trials to promote skill acquisition.
Natural environment training - Answer✔️✔️-Naturalistic teaching strategy.
Fluency Based Instruction - Answer✔️✔️-Taking an existing skill and
increasing accuracy and speed of skill performance in order to develop
competence
primary reinforcer - Answer✔️✔️-an innately reinforcing stimulus, such as
one that satisfies a biological need (food, drink)
secondary reinforcer - Answer✔️✔️-a reinforcer that someone had to learn to
like (games, coloring, puzzles etc)
Reinforcer - Answer✔️✔️-occurs after the behavior for the given SD
Preference Assessment - Answer✔️✔️-Aims to identify an individual's
favorite things so that they can be used as rewards or potential
"reinforcers" for desired behavior.
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