ABA

Continuous reinforcement is best used when maintaining a behavior?

false

Correction and reinforcement are used during probing.

false

Deprivation is when a reinforcer has been over-accessed, weaking its effects.

false

Which would most likely be an attention seeking based behavior.

"Look at me."

20. If instructional control is established a client will ________ to instructions and respond consistently.

LISTEN

HIPAA (as it is often called) was legislated in the United States in what year?

1996

The consequence or reinforcer should be presented a maximum of how long after the behavior?

2-3 SECONDS

We look for environmental changes that occur a maximum of how long after the behavior?

2-3 SECONDS

If the client emits an appropriate mand, they are allowed to access the item for how long typically

3-5 seconds

The three-term contingency is also known as?

A-B- C

With the ______ method, the technician teaches a new, more appropriate behavior that serves the same function as the targeted behavior.

A-B-C

ABC is the acronym for

Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence

ABC stands for what in ABA therapy?

Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence

Behaviors are constrained by laws known as the three-term contingency. Name the three-term contingency.

Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence

While teaching a new behavior, each learning opportunity follows what chain?

Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence

The _______ designs an instruction that will become the antecedent to a response.

BCBA or Behavior Analyst

A behavior acquisition program for vocal imitation will be written by _______ and implemented by _______.

BCBA, RBT

The _________ is responsible for creating skill acquisition plans that will guide the technician in teaching new behavior.

BCBA- behavior analyst

Who is five times more likely to have autism?

Boys

The BIP will provide explicit instructions to the technician about addressing with _________ behaviors.

Challenging

The stimulus that occurs after the behavior is known as?

Consequence

What are the keys to successfully teaching manding?

Consistency and Repetition

Providing reinforcement for each occurrence of a behavior is known as?

Continuous Reinforcement

There are two general categories that direct measurement can be divided into: _____ and ______.

Continuous and Discontinous

13. Providing therapy without instructional control can be problematic. The sessions can be unpredictable and may prove _______ in some situations.

DANGEROUS

10. The ______ says that any information de-identified using one of these methods is, effectively, no longer Protected Health Information and can be used without limit.

DHHS

______ is one of the cornerstones of ABA.

Data

To increase the strength of a reinforcer by blocking access to the item for a period of time is called?

Deprivation

The method used when a techincian records descriptions of the antecedent to the behavior, the behavior itself and the consequence of the behavior.

Direct Observation

Any stimuli that triggers a certain set of behaviors, because it has been previously paired with reinforcement, is called a _________ stimulus.

Discriminative

The term Sd stands for what?

Discriminative stimulus

14. ________ is another factor that will affect a client's compliance.

EFFORT

The key to positive outcomes related to ASD is what?

Early diagnosis

What type of data tends to be the measurement of choice for mand training?

Frequency Data

Emotions are behaviors.

FALSE

Negative reinforcement is adding something from the environment to decrease the behavior.

FALSE

The "dead man's test" can not help us differentiate what is a behavior and what is not.

FALSE

The antecedent occurs last.

FALSE

The consequence happens before the behavior.

FALSE

In which schedule of reinforcement is the reinforcer accessible after a consistent amount of time?

Fixed-interval

To design an appropriate behavior intervention plan, the behavior analyst must first conduct a __________.

Functional Behavior Assessment

19. Technicians with ________ control will oversee the session and make decisions about the direction of it.

INSTRUCTIONAL

16. When _________ _________ has been established, the client realizes that positive outcomes happen when they comply with your instructions.

INSTRUCTIONAL CONTROL

9. To achieve success as an ABA behavior therapist you must learn how to gain and maintain ________ ______.

INSTRUCTIONAL CONTROL

_______________ refers to language with private meanings or meaning that only makes sense to those familiar with the situation where the phrase originated.

Idiosyncratic Language

A reinforcer that once was strong has lost its strength because of a time gap between the behavior and the application of the reinforcement. What variable of reinforcer effectiveness is responsible for the change?

Immediacy

What are the two effects motivating operations can have on learning?

Increase/decrease the effectiveness of a reinforcer and frequency of reinforced behaviors

Providing reinforcement for some, but not all occurrences of behavior is?

Intermittent Reinforcement

11. Choosing the correct ______ of the reinforcer offered for a response is crucial in maintaining value.

MAGNITUDE

An increase/decrease in reinforcer strength due to its size is called?

Magnitude

The first verbal operant ABA professionals focus on is?

Manding

______ trialing (also known as random rotation) is presenting multiple targets from multiple programs in one DTT session.

Mixed

The components of a BIP may contain which of the following?

Name, DOB, Dx, Rx and Allergies

Behavior must be ______________.

OBSERVABLE

Behavior must have at least one dimension that can be _______.

OBSERVABLE AND MEASUREABLE

8. Patients can determine a date on which their permission to release ______ is no longer valid.

PHI

15. Instructional control occurs when a therapist has developed a _______________ relationship with a client.

POSITIVE AND AUTHORITATIVE

_____ _____ language respectfully puts the person BEFORE the disability.

Person-first

___________ assessments should be run to identify current preferred items used as reinforcers.

Preference

Generally, what is ABC data used for?

Problematic or Maladaptive Behaviors

Flapping hands, rocking, and repeated vocal utterances are examples of common behaviors in people with autism. They are called what?

Self-Stimulating Behaviors

What is meant by contingency, as a variable of reinforcer effectiveness?

Providing reinforcers only when a target behavior occurs

A behavior principle that is used primarily as a last resort, and should be done only under the supervision of a behavior analyst, is called what?

Punishment

A/An _____ will be required to record different types of data throughout each session.

RBT

_____ collect data on behaviors to determine functional relationships between those behaviors and different environmental factors.

RBTs

is a type of learning in which an antecedent stimulus can elicit a response.

RESPONDENT CONDITIONING

If a client can only produce learned responses in the therapy setting with their behavior technician, the skill does not have much real-world value.

false

What are the consequences that follow a behavior, affecting the likelihood of the behavior's recurrence?

Reinforcement & Punishment

13. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders states that ASD refers to a complex group of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by what types of behavior?

Repetitive patterns of behavior; language deficits; social communication deficits

What are two common types of negative reinforcement?

Response Cost and Time Out

Fascination and Linear-fixed focus on a specific subject, activity, and interest for periods of time is consistent with which area of ASD?

Restrictive Self Interest; Repetitive Behavior

17. If too much of the reinforcer is provided or the time spent with it is too prolonged, the client will experience ________.

SATIATION

Who is considered the father of modern behaviorism?

SKINNER

The Antecedent is also known as _________________.

Sd

12. Instructional control is all about keeping the client motivated and reinforcer value.

TRUE

15. Punishment is a consequence that decreases the likelihood of behavior to recur by either adding or removing stimuli to the environment.

TRUE

An example of positive reinforcement would be receiving a paycheck each week for going to work and completing your job.

TRUE

Behavior Modification evolved to what we now refer to as Applied Behavior Analysis

TRUE

Behavior has a direct effect on the environment in which it occurs.

TRUE

Behavior is anything that people do or say.

TRUE

Behavior is the activity of living organisms.

TRUE

Without data to monitor, it would be impossible for ABA professionals to make appropriate changes to treatment plans and prove trends in skill acquisition.

TRUE

Receptive language skills include the ability to ________?

The ability to understand and respond to the language of others

In ABA therapy, a skill that has been mastered is removed from the program.

false

If a technician says "cookie" and the child is given a cookie, then what type of behavior has the child successfully shown?

mand

10. A behavior technician must be aware of the ______ of reinforcers being used to maintain instructional control.

VALUE

The Early Echoic Skills Assessment can be found where?

VB-MAPP

Which schedule of reinforcement is most resilient to extinction?

Variable-ratio

18. __________ instructional control, the client will drive the session and choose what happens next.

WITHOUT

__________ is the term used to describe the practice of DTT targets that have been previously-mastered to check that the skill is not lost.

maintenance

A/An ________ Violation of healthcare is releasing the wrong patient information.

administrative

Consider this: when you are driving and see a stop sign it triggers a behavior. The stop sign is a/an _________ condition that triggers the behavior of pressing the brake on your vehicle.

antecedent

The ________ precedes the behavior.

antecedent

What does the "A" in the three term contingency ABC mean in RBT training?

antecedent

________ level interventions that change the unpredictability of the event are often successful in decreasing behaviors.

antecedent

9. When signs of anxiety occur, an RBT should use ________ ________ in attempting to prevent crisis behavior.

antecedent interventions

19. Title I of HIPAA focuses on health care.

false

All consequence interventions identified to address behavior based upon a FBA are written in a _____ intervention plan.

behavior

13. A______ ______ is when a client's behavior may cause danger to themselves or others.

behavioral crisis

9. ______ often occur (and may even go unnoticed) during the disposal of paper documents containing PHI.

breaches

_____ ______: These should be included on each document and remain within compliance with HIPAA laws and regulations.

client identifiers

The ________ follows the behavior.

consequence

What does the "C" in the three term contingency ABC mean in RBT training?

consequence

19. ______ ______ may occur any time a client's behavior puts themselves or others at risk of harm.

crisis behaviors

2. Clients experiencing ______ ______ often become unpredictable and may cause injuries to themselves and others nearby.

crisis behaviors

. The behavior plan (or treatment plan) for any client at risk of exhibiting severe behavior should include a _________ __________.

crisis plan

Like a behavior plan, a ______ ______ is always individualized and is comprised of different elements.

crisis plan

In _______ _________, prompt action and preparedness are crucial to successfully avoiding severe outcomes.

crisis situations

7. A behavior technician who discusses a case or client with a friend, family member, or uninvolved co-worker is compliant.

false

______ _______ should be kept in chronological order and must always be dated.

data records

18. How can a company share PHI when it is necessary for service or payment?

de-intentification

What will increase a child's motivation?

deprivation

18. _________ reinforcement is the process of reinforcing a behavior different than the problem behavior.

differential

Applied Behavior Analysis is a data-driven science; it cannot exist without proper _______.

documentation

____________ is the process of keeping records of everything that occurs within the parameters of the service provided.

documentation

If a technician says "cookie" and the child responds with the word "cookie," then what type of behavior has the child successfully shown?

echoic

What type of behavior produces the reproduction of sounds, words and phrases that are being modeled?

echoic

12. ________ is the repetition of words, phrases, intonation, or sounds of the speech of others.

echolalia

15. If you are uncertain if an action will cause a breach, it is best to _____________________.

err on the side of caution

8. When introducing new skills to a client, the behavior technician provides prompts necessary to ensure success. This is called________.

errorless teaching

____ _____ is a learning procedure in which the child is prompted to make the correct response immediately, ensuring a correct response each time.

errorless teaching

____________ language is the use of verbal behavior to communicate with others.

expressive

Putting attention-seeking behavior on ________ means to withhold attention during the occurrence of the behavior.

extinction

The process of decreasing a behavior by no longer providing the reinforcement, the behavior once accessed is called?

extinction

When a previously-reinforced behavior no longer produces access to reinforcement it is called ________.

extinction

________ burst is the name for the initial increase infrequency and intensity of behaviors put on extinction.

extinction

_________ can often produce aggression.

extinction

The phenomenon in which a behavior that is no longer being reinforced first increased in intensity is called?

extinction Burst

11. As an RBT, you will assist in the assessment by collecting B-A-C data when crisis behaviors occur.

false

12. Employees have access to any information needed to complete their job.

false

Jillian has difficulty with behaving appropriately in social situations and becomes mildly violent from time to time. Jillian probably has Autism.

false

Natural environment teaching is going to be a part of every Applied Behavior Analysis treatment program for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

false

Partial physical prompts are the most intrusive prompts used in ABA.

false

Problem behaviors can also be reinforced by attention.

false

Satiation increases the strength of a reinforcer temporarily.

false

When a previously extinct behavior is randomly exhibited, it is called behavior recovery.

false

When writing your session notes, it is appropriate to include comments like, 'Client was a complete brat today. I wish the parents would start getting him some consistent sleep.'

false

discrete trial is made up of the following three parts: SD, Response Cost, DTT.

false

__________ is the ability to expand skills or behaviors beyond the scope in which they were taught; in other settings, with other people, and with different stimuli.

generalization

Once the treatment plan is developed, it should be explained to the client and their parents or guardian in detailed, non-technical terms so that they may provide _____ _____.

informed consent

Physical prompts are the most ______ form of assistance that can be provided.

intrusive

When a client has developed adequate receptive language skills, what may they understand?

language

The introduction of the _________ will allow learners to be exposed to the basic interactions of verbal behavior and communication?

mand

The process of teaching communication often begins with teaching ______________.

mand

What type of behavior do children usually engage in first?

manding

_______ is a program used in ABA to teach clients how to make appropriate requests.

manding

17. The _____ _____ _____ ensures that a Covered Entity only provides the minimum amount of information necessary to complete a task or communicate a message.

minimum necessary rule

What is the antecedent to a mand?

motivating operation

The presence of a reinforcing or adverse condition that affects performance and learning is known as?

motivating operations

What is the key to compliance?

motivation

___________ is using the principles of ABA to teach skills in common real world situations that a client of that age would encounter.

natural environment teaching

The collected data will involve client progress and observed behaviors. Data should be recorded in a/an ___________ manner, with no bias from the behavior technician.

objective and honest

When a behavior therapist has instructional control, the client is more likely to comply because a ________ relationship has been established.

paired

__________ is conditioning non-reinforcing stimuli to be a motivator by delivering them with a preferred stimulus repetitively.

pairing

__________ is the process of intentionally creating an association between the technician and reinforcing events.

pairing

11. _____________is when children play adjacent to each other, but do not try to influence one another's behavior or invade each other's personal space.

parallel play

A full _____ prompt is providing physical guidance through the entire response.

physical

_____ skills are another major focus of NET.

play

When using a _______ prompt, the technician places the stimuli required to complete the target behavior closer to the client than other stimuli present.

positional

_______ punishment is defined as the addition of an aversive stimulus immediately after a behavior that causes a decrease in future occurrence.

positive

_________ assessments are contrived tests to find out which items the client prefers for a time frame.

preference

17. A crisis plan is an individualized guide to ________ a particular client's crisis behavior.

preventing and dealing with

A reprimand is a verbal scolding immediately following a target behavior.

true

A/An_________ is an added stimulus that increases the likelihood that the client will exhibit the desired response.

prompt

If the client does not meet the criteria for an acceptable mand, what should the technician do?

prompt

10. When using ________ to decrease a crisis behavior, professionals must teach an appropriate alternative behavior to ensure that the client is taught appropriate methods to obtain access to reinforcement.

punishment

12. __________ strategies could include 'time out' or response cost interventions (but only when those interventions lead to a decrease in the future likelihood of the targeted behaviors).

punishment

The idea behind consequence level intervention is to _______ the stimulus reinforcing the behavior.

reduce

_________ are the most commonly-used positive punishment interventions used by the general population.

reprimands

The _______ is the behavior that the client exhibits in reaction to the technician's instruction.

response

5. _______ _______ is when either a preferred stimulus or stimulus associated with a preference is removed, based on the client engaging in the target behavior.

response cost

_________ interest is the tendency to become fixated on one subject or object.

restricted

__________ is another setting event factor: a common symptom of ASD is adherence to strict routines. Daily schedule changes will often cause changes in the behavior of a client. It is best to warn clients when a routine is going to deviate from the norm.

routine

Those involved in the handling of documentation must be periodically trained in _______________ . They must be informed of HIPAA laws and understand the consequences of violations.

security and confidentiality

To ensure effective treatment, behavior technicians should familiarize themselves with their client's ______ _______.

service plan

______ _______ could include milestone achievements, out of the ordinary occurrences, or explanations of data that was atypical.

session notes

Escape, attention, and access to tangibles are behaviors that are all ______ _______.

socially mediated

Practicing mands during Discrete Trail Training is?

structured and systematic

5. Many children with autism use ________ to escape aversive activities. This is because the people in their lives have accidentally reinforced these behaviors by removing the child from aversive situations.

tantrums

The first step to creating any behavior intervention is identifying and defining the _______ behavior.

target

A spectrum disorder is a mental disorder that includes a range of linked conditions, sometimes also extending to include singular symptoms and traits

true

A target behavior is the action of a client that has been designated for change.

true

A/An ___ ___ is removing a person from an opportunity to access positive reinforcement for a specific amount of time

time out

When we describe in observable and measurable terms, we are discussing the _________ of the behavior.

topography

______ is how we look or specifically describes the behavior.

topography

Learning opportunities called _____ need to be distinctly separate from one another in discrete trial training.

trials

. The goal of every crisis management plan is to prevent the crisis from ever occurring.

true

10. Impaired social interaction is defined as an insufficient or excessive quantity or quality of social exchange rendering it ineffective.

true

11. Protected Health Information can be paper documents, electronic data, or gathered through conversation.

true

13. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is comprised of a set of laws of which were introduced to protect the privacy of any individual receiving a medical service or treatment.

true

14. Antecedent interventions are pre-emptive measures taken to decrease the likelihood of a behavior occurring.

true

14. Similarly, using PHI documents without obtaining a patient signature is a violation. This rule will directly affect behavior technicians, as each session note and time sheet will need to be signed by the client or client's legal guardian before they are submitted.

true

15. The crisis plan should provide directions for dealing with each phase of a crisis. The phases include: Prevention, Escalation, Crisis, and Post-crisis.

true

16. Every crisis plan should be clearly titled "Crisis Plan" at the top of the document. This will make it easier to locate in a chaotic situation.

true

16. Most of the regulations affecting organizations that provide ABA therapy are housed in Title II. These regulations affect all behavior analysis professionals, including technicians.

true

20. Any professional providing services to an individual at risk of a crisis situation should be appropriately trained to manage the situation and ensure safety.

true

20. Title II requires national standards for processing electronic healthcare transactions to be created by the Department of Health and Human Services.

true

6. A HIPAA breach is defined as the use, transmitting, or disclosure of PHI in a manner deemed non-compliant with HIPAA, which may cause potential risk for an individual.

true

9. People affected by autism often have difficulties interacting, typically in social situations. One major struggle for many is building and understanding social relationships.

true

A behavior intervention plan (BIP) will be created after a functional behavior assessment to address particular behavior interfering with learning or impeding social skills.

true

A behavior is observable. It is what a person does or says and has an impact on the environment.

true

A client may start out manding for a reinforcer that is present and accept any vocalization as a correct response.

true

A delay between the response and the reinforcement makes it far less valuable.

true

A discrete trial must have a clear beginning, middle, and end

true

A partial physical prompt is guiding the clients response physically, but not completing the behavior for them.

true

A plus is assigned for successful trials and a minus is recorded for failed trials.

true

A prompting hierarchy is a systematic method of assisting clients in the learning and skill acquisition process.

true

A target behavior is the response emitted by the client that has been selected for intervention.

true

Almost every ABA treatment plan will include a variation of manding.

true

An acronym for the four functions of behavior is E.A.T.S.

true

An effective technician will practice mands numerous times throughout the session.

true

Antecedent interventions are proactive measures, implemented prior to a target behavior, that aim to prevent the occurrence completely.

true

Any information created, used, or disclosed during a healthcare service that could be used to identify an individual is considered Protected Health Information (PHI).

true

Any time problem behavior occurs, it is necessary to record A-B-C data aka (Antecedent - Behavior-Consequence).

true

Applied Behavior Analysis is a data-driven science. Any efficient discrete trial training program requires thorough and consistent data collection.

true

Applied Behavior Analysis is used to teach new behaviors that will improve and enhance the daily lives of clients.

true

Applied behavior analysis is the use of measurements, techniques and principles to create meaningful and positive changes in behavior.

true

Behavior technicians are required to complete a session notes form for every session that they conduct.

true

Board Certified Behavior Analysts, Registered Behavior Technicians, and other behavior analysis professionals often provide therapeutic services to individuals diagnosed with developmental disabilities.

true

Children with Autism often have deficits in play, communication, and daily living skills.

true

Clients or their guardians have the right to request therapy session notes at any time, so be sure that the language you use is professional and objective.

true

Consequence interventions are used to minimize problem behaviors and increase reinforcement for desirable behavior.

true

Consequence-level interventions are environmental changes that follow the behavior which will increase or decrease the likelihood of that behavior occurring in the future.

true

Data collected shows ABA professionals whether or not the current treatment is effective.

true

Data is recorded for every trial.

true

Direct measurement is the measurement of behavior during observation periods or direct interactions with a client.

true

Discontinuous measurement is a direct measure of a behavior that does not have a discrete beginning or end and may consist of varying durations.

true

Discrete Trial Training (DTT) is a method of teaching used in ABA in which a skill is broken down into simplified, teachable pieces taught one at a time.

true

Echoic training can be used to teach sounds, words, phrases and entire sentences.

true

Extinction is a principle commonly used to reduce problematic or interfering behaviors.

true

Frequency recording is best for behaviors with a short duration that may be easily tallied.

true

Generalization is when a client takes the skills learned during therapy and applies them across multiple contexts with different people (not just their RBT), in different places (not just the designated therapy location), and with a variety of stimuli.

true

Gesture prompts are often very similar to modeling and are rated just a bit less intrusive.

true

If a provider openly displays data, permanent product, or other materials with client identifiers for any reason, they are in breach of HIPAA.

true

If the amount of reinforcer produced is too small or the amount of time experiencing it is too short, the client will not value it.

true

In error correction, the Sd is restated because a mistake has already occurred and feedback given, so the cycle restarts.

true

In recording objective, comprehensive, and cumulative data we establish a baseline. At times, if current data is compared to data collected a year ago, achievement can be easily measured.

true

It is important to remember that some of the people we work with as RBT's may have trouble grasping societal norms.

true

Mands can be practiced using DTT (Discrete Trial Training)?

true

Many children with autism also have trouble with functional play.

true

Many kids with autism have trouble with symbolic play.

true

Masking is when measures are taken to ensure an automatically-reinforced behavior does not produce the brain reaction that reinforces the behavior.

true

Medical records must be kept in a secure location to which access is strictly limited. Electronic medical records must be adequately equipped with security measures as well.

true

Modeling is a prompt used frequently both in the world of Applied Behavior Analysis and in everyday life.

true

Motivating operations are environmental events that makes a behavior more likely to occur.

true

Motivating operations are temporary.

true

Natural environment teaching (NET) is a proven way to help people with autism acquire and generalize skills.

true

Natural environment teaching is an effective way to teach a client how to meaningfully apply necessary skills in real scenarios and settings.

true

Natural environment teaching will feel to the client like a play break if the technician does not apply corrective procedures and shaping under the NET teaching and opportunity conditions.

true

Natural motivation is an enormous factor in successful naturalistic teaching.

true

Once a behavior is targeted, behavior data is collected and a behavior intervention plan or BIP is written by the behavior analyst. The behavior technician will implement the BIP during future therapy sessions after training and modeling are conducted by the behavior analyst or BCBA.

true

Once generalization is learned, the client can apply acquired skills to all situations where they are appropriate.

true

Once stimulus discrimination is established for a response, it needs to be expanded so that response will be produced in the presence of the various stimuli that make it appropriate.

true

Once the Sd is given, the technician waits for the client's response.

true

Operant language means that every description must be in observable and measurable terms.

true

Partial Interval Recording is recording whether or not the target behavior occurred at all during the predetermined period

true

Percentage measurement is typically used during discrete trial training.

true

Persistent deficits in social-emotional reciprocity ranging from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back-and-forth conversation to reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect, to failure to initiate or respond to social interactions are all symptoms of ASD.

true

Physical prompts involve touching or using hands to guide the client to the correct behavior.

true

Probe data is recording the outcome of the initial trial of each target.

true

Probing is establishing a discriminative stimulus and then recording a success or failure data point.

true

Probing is testing a target to obtain the client's current knowledge level.

true

Prompt dependence is when a client requires a prompt even though they possess the ability to respond with less assistance or no help at all.

true

Receptive and Expressive language can be difficult for those affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder.

true

Records are a communication tool for professional-to-professional cooperation and patient-to-professional information sharing, as well as for general communication

true

Requesting information is a type of manding.

true

Responding to stimuli or information from the environment may not occur naturally in someone affected by ASD?

true

Response Latency is the time span between an antecedent stimulus and a behavior's reaction to the stimulus.

true

Response interruption/redirection is an expansion of the response blocking concept which tends to produce higher rates of success.

true

Some individuals with ASD may experience extreme distress at small changes, difficulties with transitions, rigid thinking patterns, greeting rituals, or the need to take the same route or eat the same food every day.

true

Stimulus control is the reason that behavior is different when you are at a concert, however, the same behavior at a business meeting is extremely unlikely.

true

Systematic desensitization procedure is when successive approximations of the target behavior are reinforced, until the target skill is obtained.

true

Teaching manding will help a person with Autism to naturally develop communication skills and interest in social interaction.

true

The National Provider Identifier Standard requires all healthcare employees, patients, employers, health plans, and healthcare providers to obtain a 10-digit national provider identifier number (or: NPI).

true

The criteria should gradually increase in difficulty, while the presence of the preferred item gradually decreases.

true

The errorless method allows the client consistent access to reinforcement without experiencing frustration found in high-effort skill tasks.

true

The main difference between NET and DTT is the reinforcer being used to motivate the client.

true

The types of continuous measurement used include: Frequency, Duration, Response Latency, and Inter-Response Time (IRT).

true

There are numerous ways target behaviors can be measured?

true

To ensure treatment efficacy, data needs to be collected exactly as designated by the behavior analyst. It should be well-organized and fully-comprehensible.

true

Two major negative punishment techniques are used in ABA: Time Out and Response Cost.

true

Visual prompts are extremely effective when working with a client affected by autism spectrum disorder.

true

When a behavior is emitted more often in the presence of a particular discriminative stimulus than in its absence that behavior is under stimulus control.

true

When asked to take data on a target behavior, one must first remember that there are three dimensional quantities that can be measured.

true

When presenting an Sd, the client should be sitting in the designated work area with his/her hands in their lap or on the table.

true

When providing healthcare services to an individual, a documented plan should always be in place prior to the onset of treatment.

true

When using errorless teaching, always be sure to provide the least-intrusive prompt that will produce a successful response.

true

When using the most intrusive prompt (that being a full physical prompt), the client is the furthest from independence.

true

Whole Interval Recording involves recording data only if the behavior occurs for the entire interval.

true

With escape extinction, the person, activity, item, or event that is being avoided must be identified and then the client must not be allowed to escape from it.

true

With manding, it is easy to ensure functional relationships are being promoted during natural environment teaching.

true

Without documentation, it would be impossible to ensure that services meet set standards, are progressing, and that treatment is effective.

true

esponse cost is the removal of a specific reinforcer immediately following an undesirable behavior.

true

7. A client must _____ their therapist if instructional control is to be developed.

trust

6. ________ of reinforcer effectiveness are responsible for how valuable an item or activity is as reinforcement.

variables

A _____ prompt is any verbal hint that is designed to help the client achieve the correct response, including spoken word, sign language, phonemic cues, or statements.

verbal

Increasing what type of skills is a foundational step in teaching a client to use verbal behavior in various interactions?

verbal imitation

______ ______ refers to each document signed and dated by the client, or client's guardian, as well as the professional documentation.

verified documentation

A _____ prompt is an environmental change that is made to lead a client to the correct response.

visual

Once the learner can successfully mand for something, does the response requirement increase?

yes

It is possible that many learners can have impaired communication to the point of being nonverbal and/or limited verbalization.

TRUE

Negative reinforcement is when a behavior increases in the future after something in the environment is removed.

TRUE

The behavior is also known as the response to the antecedent.

TRUE

The function of behavior is the interacton between the environment and behavior that causes the behavior to be learned and maintained.

TRUE

Two behaviors may have the same topography (appearing similar), but if they are not serving the same function they would be treated differently.

TRUE

The first step in any functional behavior assessment is to define what?

Target Behaviors

Any behavior targeted for reduction should have a behavior intervention plan or BIP.

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Autism is a complex neurobehavioral condition that includes impairments in social interaction, developmental language and communication skills.

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Automatic behaviors do not belong to the socially-mediated group.

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Environmental signals that lead people to exhibit particular behaviors are known as discriminative stimulus: Sds.

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Escape-maintained behaviors may occur because the person is attempting to avoid a particular situation, task, activity, or person.

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Everyone displays behaviors that can be automatically reinforcing.

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In a variable-interval schedule of reinforcement, access to reinforcement is available after a random amount of time?

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The four functions of behavior are: Escape, Attention, Access to Tangibles, and Self-Stimulatory or Automatic Reinforcement.

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Today, the term autism is often used as a general term for all Autism Spectrum Disorders.

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When a specific situation seems to evoke intense fear or anxiety in a client, systematic desensitization may be an appropriate intervention designed and supervised by the BCBA.

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Amount of Sleep: The amount someone sleeps at night can influence their behavior. Many people with autism struggle with fluctuating sleep schedules, because they either cannot fall asleep initially or stay asleep through the night.

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