ABAT EXAM questions correctly answered 2023 /2024

ABAT EXAM Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) - correct answer -Observation tool for teachers to record individual progress toward the achievement of four desired results... *Socially & personally competent *Effective Learners *show physical & motor Competence *safe & healthy Desired results for Families (DRDP) - correct answer *families support their child's learning and development *families achieve their own goals Skills streaming - correct answer -A social skills training method introduced by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein in 1973 -4 part training approach *modeling *role-playing *performance feedback *Generalization Errorless learning - correct answer -Therapy strategy that ensures children always respond correctly -As each skill is taught, children are provided with a prompt or cue immediately following an instruction Serial Thinking - correct answer -Theory that individuals with autism cannot process more than one piece of information at a time. -Give clients one instruction at a time to help support the client Transitions in TEACCH - correct answer -Students are typically provided with transition objects when moving from one center to another -place object or card in a receiving box or envelope Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) as part of IDEA - correct answer -students must spend as much time as possible mainstreaming in general education Founding figures in ABA - correct answer -Pavlov: respondent conditioning -thorndike: Law of Effect -Watson: Father of Behaviorism -Skinner: Most associated with Behaviorism Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) - correct answer -derives some principles from ABA *reinforcement or operant conditioning *more naturalistic than DTT Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) - correct answer -Typically have NORMAL hearing but STRUGGLE to PROCESS and make MEANING of sound *ASD= problems w/ understanding the sounds of language *APD= problems w/ the meaning of whats being said Person-centered planning - correct answer -AKA "personal futures planning" *dream/goal driven *informal environment *voluntary involvement of individuals *client is central figure in exploring their own dream Episodic Severity - correct answer -Help us track progress or changes in problem behaviors *intense behavior can impact others even if it happens once a month