Bcat exam stuvia - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Punishment - ANSWER Arianas mother showers her with praise every time she does her homework. Over time Ariana's behavior of completing homework assignments DECREASES. This alarms Ariana's mother- she expected the opposite effect! tact - ANSWER A child sees a cookie and says "cookie", and receives praise for saying cookie; what type of verbal operant does this most closely describe Mand - ANSWER A child sees a cookie and says "cookie", and receives the cookie for saying cookie; what t...

The integrated neurobehavioral approach considers... - ANSWER state of arousal, cognition, language, and social-emotional If a client doesn't understand a demand, you can... - ANSWER provide visual information, give a prompt, or model If you realize you know the clients mom outside of the client, you must... - ANSWER inform your supervisor because you cannot provide therapy for the child as it constitutes as a dual relationship Early intensive behavioral intervention for a 3 yr old is ...

Deficits in Social Emotional Reciprocity - ANSWER Range from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back and forth conversations; to reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect: to failure to initiate or respond to social interactions. Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction - ANSWER Manifested by absent, reduced, or atypical use of eye contact (relative to cultural norms), gestures, facial expressions, body orientation, or speech intonation. ...

Forward Chaining - ANSWER Begin with the first SD- response component in the chain and then continue forward through the remaining SD-response components. Example: Teaching a child to brush their teeth from the beginning of the task with the SD "Brush your teeth" the child gets the tooth brush, turns on the cold water, puts the toothbrush under the water... eventually then gets towel, wipes mouth and hands and hangs towel up. The reinforcer will be AFTER THE TARGET STEP and the Therapist w...

Motivating Operations (MO) - ANSWER An environmental variable that alters the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event. Contingency - ANSWER Refers to dependent and/or temporal relations between operant behavior an it's controlling variables. Satiation - ANSWER Repeated presentation of a reinforcer weakens its effectiveness and for this reason the rate of responses declines. Positive Reinforcement - ANSWER A type of reinforcement in which the presentation of the sti...