BCAT

Deficits in Social Emotional Reciprocity 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 Manifested by absent, reduced, or atypical use of eye contact (relative to cultural norms), gestures, facial expressions, body orientation, or speech intonation. Deficits in devel...

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

An activity schedule would be most appropriate when teaching which of the following skills? Getting dressed Therapists/RBTs are responsible for collecting various types of data within ABA treatment sessions. Which of the following is NOT a type of data discussed within this training? Behavior management Which of the following statements is true regarding data collection? Data should be taken during every ABA teaching session on all targeted behaviors Asking a learner to sort laundry and p...

An activity schedule would be most appropriate when teaching which of the following skills? Getting dressed Therapists/RBTs are responsible for collecting various types of data within ABA treatment sessions. Which of the following is NOT a type of data discussed within this training? Behavior management Which of the following statements is true regarding data collection? Data should be taken during every ABA teaching session on all targeted behaviors Asking a learner to sort laundry and p...

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