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Which of the following statements is true? A. Accurate data is sometimes necessary for making sure that behavior change plans are relevant to the person receiving them. B. Accurate data is always necessary for building behavior change plans and measuring progress. C. If most of the data collected...

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 pr...

Frequency is: A. The length of time it takes to START a behavior after the instruction is given B. Assigning numbers to different prompt levels C. The number of times the behavior occurs D. The length of time that a behavior occurs - ANSWER C Whole-Interval Time Sampling A. "Records t...

Which data recording method would be best used to measure the time between when a cue was delivered and a learner responded to the cue? - ANSWER Latency Susan's tantrums seemed to last longer with every passing day. Which data collection procedure would be the best to use to determine how long h...

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...

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 u...

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 cli...

Positive Reinforcement - ANSWER A type of reinforcement in which the PRESENTATION of the stimulus is contingent upon the response, resulting in an INCREASE in the future probability of that response. Example: Sally took off her shoe independently yesterday, her mother clapped her hands and said ...

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 be...

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 rece...

Positive reinforcement - ANSWER Give something that increases behavior Negative reinforcement - ANSWER Take something away that increases behavior Positive punishment - ANSWER Give something that decreases behavior Negative punishment - ANSWER Take something away that decreases behavior ...

Discriminative Stimulus (SD) - ANSWER Definition: Any event in the presence of which a target behavior is likely to have consequences that affect its frequency. Discriminative Stimulus (SD) E - ANSWER Examples of SD's: "Touch the cat," "Give me red," "Where are you?," "How is the weather ...

Autism is... - ANSWER A neurodevelopment disorder ASD (autism spectrum disorder) is characterized by: - ANSWER Difficulties in social interaction, communication, and repetitive behaviors T/F- ABA is the cure for Autism - ANSWER False Three-Term Contingency (ABC) - ANSWER Antecedent, Behavio...

Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity - ANSWER -abnormal social approach -failure of normal back-and-forth conversation -reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect -failure to initiate or respond to social interactions example of deficit of social-emotional reciprocity - ANSWER he te...