ABA

DTT correct answer: Maximize learning by: -Breaking skills up into small teachable components -Teaching one sub-skill at a time -Present numerous trials of the same skill -Insuring each trial has distinct beginning (Sd), response (R), and ending (Sr) -Collecting Data and use to make program decisions Antecedant-based intervention strategies (ABI) correct answer: Arranging the environment -changing the schedule/routine -structuring time -using highly reinforcing and preferred activit...

What are the components of discrete trial training? correct answer: Antecedent Behavior Consequence followed by an inter trial What are the components of natural environment training? correct answer: Capture Moments, infrequent opportunities, child-led, shared control, and motivation tends to be higher. What does SD stand for? correct answer: descriptive stimulus Antecedent can also be referred to as correct answer: the descriptive stimulus How do we teach children with autism...

Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD) correct answer: 1. Autistic Disorder 2. Asperger's Syndrome 3. Rett's disorder 4. Childhood disintegrative disorder 5. Pervasive development disorder not otherwise specified (PDD_NOS) In order for a child to be diagnosed with autism, he or she must meet a total of 6 criteria from 3 different domains. correct answer: 1. Social Interaction 2. Communication 3. Restrictive, repetitive & stereotypic behavior patterns Additional facts about Autism: ...

Abative effect (of motivating operation) correct answer: A decrease in the current frequency of behavior that has been reinforced by the stimulus that is increased in reinforcing effectiveness by the same motivating operation Abolishing operation (AO) correct answer: A motivating operation that decreases the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus, object, or event. Accuracy (of measurement) correct answer: The extent to which observed values, the data produced by measuring an event, ma...

What is Autism correct answer: A developmental disorder that appears by age 3. Characteristics of Autism correct answer: Impairment of the ability to form normal social relationships, communicate with others, and receptive behavior patterns. Autistic disorder diagnostic criteria according to DSM-IV correct answer: Social interaction 2, Communication 1, Restrictive and repetitive stereotypic behavior patterns 1 Autism Spectrum Diorder affects correct answer: 1 in 68 children Autis...

Definition (Main Criteria) of Autism: correct answer: 1.Impairment in Social Interaction (Ex: Eye Contact) 2.Impairment in Communication (any type of communicating with others) 3.Restrictive, Repetitive, and Stereotype Behaviors (hand flaps, flops, jumps, hitting self) Definition of Applied Behavior Analysis: correct answer: Applied Behavior Analysis is the application of the principles of behavior to produce positive change to issues that are socially significant. Three Major Issues i...

Mand (language) correct answer: to issue such an order- ask for something Tact (language) correct answer: Label something Reinforcement correct answer: Reward SD correct answer: Discriminative Stimulus- Therapist says- our script or instruction Target correct answer: What we want the student to say or do in response to SD Two domains for autism diagnosis correct answer: 1. Social 2. Behavioral 8 Examples of Behavior Deficits correct answer: 1 Language/communication 2. A...

The attitude of science that states repeating experimental procedures is necessary for believability and reliability correct answer: Replication The characteristic of behavior analysis that states behaviors targeted for intervention are determined by their social significance correct answer: Applied A teacher is working with a behavior analyst in her building. The behavior analyst is writing a behavioral program for one of her students. The behavior analyst was explaining the aspects of ...

Experimenter has demonstrated a functional relationship correct answer: Analytic Investigating behaviors of social significance correct answer: Applied Application of the science derived from principles of behavior are applied to improve socially significant behaviors correct answer: Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Determinism, empiricism, experimentation, replication, parsimony, philosophic doubt correct answer: Attitudes of Science Behaviors are measurable and observable, and m...

ABA reversal design correct answer: A single case design on which baseline and intervention conditions are repeated with the same person. Alternating treatment design correct answer: A single case design in which two or more interventions alternate systematically. Antecedents correct answer: Environmental events that occurs before a behavior occurs. Applied behavior analysis correct answer: The attempt to solve behavior problems by providing antecedents and/ or consequences that cha...