ABAT EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2024

ABAT EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2024 What is the Prevalence of ASD? - Answer ️️ -1 in 59 children, most common in boys. Lovaas - Answer ️️ -- Early Intensive Behavior Intervention (EIBI); Skinner - Answer ️️ -operant conditioning Watson - Answer ️️ -Father of Behaviorism Thorndike - Answer ️️ -- another father of behaviorism, law of effect Pavlov - Answer ️️ -classical conditioning Social Communication: - Answer ️️ -Impairments in ability to communicate with others socially. May ask repetitive questions or take what others say literally Social Interaction: - Answer ️️ -Impairments in how an individual behaves when around others and how they build friendships. May observe child invading personal space, or inappropriately touching others. Social Imagination: - Answer ️️ -Impairments in the ability to engage in flexible thinking related to perspectives, interests, routines, and rules. Identify the currently accepted prevalence of Autism in the US - Answer ️️ -1 in 68 per CDC (2016); 1 in 42 for boys and 1 in 189 for girls What is Serial Thinking? - Answer ️️ -The theory that individuals with ASD cannot process more than one piece of information at a time. Break down instructions into smaller steps for the client to complete. Joint Attention - Answer ️️ -Sharing attention between another person and an object Auditory Processing Disorder - Answer ️️ -Typically have normal hearing but struggle to process and make meaning of sounds. Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) - Answer ️️ -Connected with IDEA Students spend as much time as possible mainstreamed in general education courses IEP goals and objectives - Answer ️️ -One annual goal 3 objectives: objectives are smaller benchmarks that the client will meet throughout the year. Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) - Answer ️️ -Federal Law passed in 1975. Required schools to provide education to eligible individuals with disabilities. Purpose: Free and Public Education (FAPE) What is meant by the 3-term contingency? - Answer ️️ -A= Antecedent (what occurs immediately before a behavior) B= Behavior (any interaction between an organism and its environment) C= Consequence (what occurs immediately following a behavior) Matching Law - Answer ️️ -Intensity of reinforcement matches the intensity of the expected demand Satiation: - Answer ️️ -Having your "fill" of something. Example: if your client always has access to their tablet, they are less likely to work for the tablet. Deprivation: - Answer ️️ -Think "deprived". The client has not had continuous access to this item. Example: You take away your child's video games for the week. At the end of the week you tell them if they clean their room, they can have their video games. They are more likely to clean their room. positive reinforcement - Answer ️️ -adding a desirable stimulus to increase a behavior negative reinforcement - Answer ️️ -taking away an undesirable stimulus to increase a behavior Reinforcement - Answer ️️ -increases behavior Punishment - Answer ️️ -decreases behavior schedules of reinforcement - Answer ️️ -continuous, fixed interval, variable interval, fixed ratio, variable ratio Continuous: - Answer ️️ -: receives reinforcement after EVERY correct response (FR1) Fixed Interval: - Answer ️️ -reinforcer delivered after a FIXED interval of TIME Variable Interval: - Answer ️️ -reinforcer delivered after a VARIABLE interval of TIME Fixed Ratio: - Answer ️️ -reinforcer delivered after SET number of RESPONSES Variable Ratio: - Answer ️️ -reinforcer delivered after VARIABLE number of RESPONSES Extinction - Answer ️️ -No longer reinforcing a previously reinforced behavior. Shaping - Answer ️️ -Reinforcing closer and closer approximations to the desired behavior. Chaining and the two types - Answer ️️ -Forward and backward Forward: - Answer ️️ -used when first few steps are easier than the last. Fade prompts from the first step, then second step, and so on. Client should independently complete the first step and BI prompt everything el