ABAT EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | ABAT CERTIFICATION EXAM STUDY
GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) - ANS ✔✔-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) - ANS ✔✔*families support their child's learning and development
*families achieve their own goals
Skills streaming - ANS ✔✔-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 - ANS ✔✔-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 - ANS ✔✔-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 - ANS ✔✔-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 - ANS ✔✔-students must spend as much time as
possible mainstreaming in general education
Founding figures in ABA - ANS ✔✔-Pavlov: respondent conditioning
-thorndike: Law of Effect
-Watson: Father of Behaviorism
-Skinner: Most associated with Behaviorism
Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) - ANS ✔✔-derives some principles from ABA
*reinforcement or operant conditioning
*more naturalistic than DTT
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) - ANS ✔✔-Typically have NORMAL hearing but STRUGGLE to
PROCESS and make MEANING of sound
*ASD= problems w/ understanding the sounds of language
GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST 2026/2027
Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) - ANS ✔✔-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) - ANS ✔✔*families support their child's learning and development
*families achieve their own goals
Skills streaming - ANS ✔✔-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 - ANS ✔✔-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 - ANS ✔✔-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 - ANS ✔✔-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 - ANS ✔✔-students must spend as much time as
possible mainstreaming in general education
Founding figures in ABA - ANS ✔✔-Pavlov: respondent conditioning
-thorndike: Law of Effect
-Watson: Father of Behaviorism
-Skinner: Most associated with Behaviorism
Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) - ANS ✔✔-derives some principles from ABA
*reinforcement or operant conditioning
*more naturalistic than DTT
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) - ANS ✔✔-Typically have NORMAL hearing but STRUGGLE to
PROCESS and make MEANING of sound
*ASD= problems w/ understanding the sounds of language
