ABAT UPDATED EXAMS COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔time delay prompting - ✔✔gradually delaying your prompt. from immediate say to 2
sec. delay to 5 sec delay..
✔✔chaining - ✔✔A way to teach complex behaviors with multiple steps in a specific
order. O often associated with task analyses... Can be forward, backward, or total task
chaining.
✔✔Shaping - ✔✔the reinforcement of successive approximations. Used in teaching new
behaviors. shaping reduces frustration and build behavioral momentum as it provides
reinforcement for attempt instead of only desired behaviors. can be used for
communication, self help imitation. motor skills etc..
✔✔Pacing - ✔✔the relative speed or slowness ?
✔✔Alternative and augmentative communication - ✔✔Systems other than vocalizations
for communication purposes. ex; iPad voice output devices
, ✔✔Mand training - ✔✔Capturing and contriving opportunities to focus on manding,
within a specified amount of time. Targets requesting and is a way to reduce problem
behavior.
✔✔Tact training - ✔✔capturing and contriving opportunities to focus on labeling or
naming items, within a specified time.
✔✔training echoic behavior - ✔✔can be used to promote other verbal operants such as
mands or tacts.
✔✔training intra-verabal behavior - ✔✔WH behavior, conversations, fill ins
✔✔teaching joint attention - ✔✔used to promote eye contact, attending to the same
tasks as others. ex: play act child's level with preferred toys/activities, hold items next to
your face/eyes, use exaggerated expressions/gaze shifts.
✔✔teaching play skills - ✔✔to promote functional use of items, pretending, turn taking,
etc..
✔✔teaching motor skills - ✔✔includes fine motor (pointing, clapping, drawing, writing,
etc..)
✔✔teaching social skills - ✔✔eye contact, greeting, conversations, turn taking, etc..
✔✔teaching adaptive and safety skills - ✔✔self-help ( dressing, toiling, teeth-brushing,
shaving, etc..) and safety ( crossing street, putting seat belt on, stranger- danger tips)
etc..
✔✔teaching cognition skills - ✔✔problem solving, memory, attention , thinking. etc..
✔✔teaching executive function skills - ✔✔flexible thinking, working memory, planning,
self monitoring, organizing, etc..
✔✔Teaching academic skills - ✔✔counting, adding, spelling, etc..
✔✔visual supports - ✔✔A type of prompt using pictures or words to help the learner
with a particular skill or activity.
✔✔Curriculum modification - ✔✔adjusting the lessons in some way to better fit students
ability level ex: highlighting key words, color coding, 1:1 testing versus with the class,
etc..
✔✔Behavior Intervention plan (BIP) - ✔✔A plan that is based on the results of a
functional behavioral assessment(FBA) and at minimum , includes a description of the
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔time delay prompting - ✔✔gradually delaying your prompt. from immediate say to 2
sec. delay to 5 sec delay..
✔✔chaining - ✔✔A way to teach complex behaviors with multiple steps in a specific
order. O often associated with task analyses... Can be forward, backward, or total task
chaining.
✔✔Shaping - ✔✔the reinforcement of successive approximations. Used in teaching new
behaviors. shaping reduces frustration and build behavioral momentum as it provides
reinforcement for attempt instead of only desired behaviors. can be used for
communication, self help imitation. motor skills etc..
✔✔Pacing - ✔✔the relative speed or slowness ?
✔✔Alternative and augmentative communication - ✔✔Systems other than vocalizations
for communication purposes. ex; iPad voice output devices
, ✔✔Mand training - ✔✔Capturing and contriving opportunities to focus on manding,
within a specified amount of time. Targets requesting and is a way to reduce problem
behavior.
✔✔Tact training - ✔✔capturing and contriving opportunities to focus on labeling or
naming items, within a specified time.
✔✔training echoic behavior - ✔✔can be used to promote other verbal operants such as
mands or tacts.
✔✔training intra-verabal behavior - ✔✔WH behavior, conversations, fill ins
✔✔teaching joint attention - ✔✔used to promote eye contact, attending to the same
tasks as others. ex: play act child's level with preferred toys/activities, hold items next to
your face/eyes, use exaggerated expressions/gaze shifts.
✔✔teaching play skills - ✔✔to promote functional use of items, pretending, turn taking,
etc..
✔✔teaching motor skills - ✔✔includes fine motor (pointing, clapping, drawing, writing,
etc..)
✔✔teaching social skills - ✔✔eye contact, greeting, conversations, turn taking, etc..
✔✔teaching adaptive and safety skills - ✔✔self-help ( dressing, toiling, teeth-brushing,
shaving, etc..) and safety ( crossing street, putting seat belt on, stranger- danger tips)
etc..
✔✔teaching cognition skills - ✔✔problem solving, memory, attention , thinking. etc..
✔✔teaching executive function skills - ✔✔flexible thinking, working memory, planning,
self monitoring, organizing, etc..
✔✔Teaching academic skills - ✔✔counting, adding, spelling, etc..
✔✔visual supports - ✔✔A type of prompt using pictures or words to help the learner
with a particular skill or activity.
✔✔Curriculum modification - ✔✔adjusting the lessons in some way to better fit students
ability level ex: highlighting key words, color coding, 1:1 testing versus with the class,
etc..
✔✔Behavior Intervention plan (BIP) - ✔✔A plan that is based on the results of a
functional behavioral assessment(FBA) and at minimum , includes a description of the
