QASP CORRECT FINALS EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔topography - ✔✔what a behavior looks like
✔✔generallization - ✔✔intervention can only be deemed a success if change can be
shown in different environments and with multiple people
✔✔evidence based - ✔✔description of medical techniques or practices that are
supported by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy, rather than merely on
supposition and tradition.
✔✔advocacy - ✔✔Quality advocacy services are person-centered and developed using
a co-production approach that aims to maximize the participation of people who use
services and their carers
✔✔person centered planning - ✔✔a method of planning for people with disabilities that
places the person and his family at the center of the planning process
seeks to build a support network, increase independence and connect to the community
✔✔Circle of support - ✔✔meeting of extended family, friends, service providers, etc. to
ensure well-being of a child about to age out of cps care
✔✔essential lifestyle plans - ✔✔ELP is a guided process for learning how someone
wants to live and for developing a plan to help make it happen. It's also:
A snapshot of how someone wants to live today, serving as a blueprint for how to
support someone tomorrow;
A way of organizing and communicating what is important to an individual;
A flexible process that can be used in combination with other person centered
techniques;
A way of making sure that the person is heard, regardless of the severity of disability.
✔✔QASP will demonstrate - ✔✔trustworthiness, honesty, fairness and sincerity
,✔✔Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) - ✔✔A disorder characterized by deficits in social
relatedness and communication skills that are often accompanied by repetitive,
ritualistic behavior.
✔✔ASD deficits - ✔✔Social interaction, communication, repetitive/restricitive beahviors
✔✔Triad of Impairments - ✔✔Deficits in reciprocal social interaction
Deficits in communication
Restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests or activities.
✔✔joint attention - ✔✔Joint Attention and Social Referencing. Joint attention occurs
when two people share interest in an object or event and there is understanding
between the two people that they are both interested in the same object or event.Less
likely to use gestures or eye contact as a means of sharing interest and directing
interactional partners' attention to object of interest
•Instrumental use less likely to be impaired
✔✔Autism (word) History - ✔✔The word "autism" comes from the Greek word "autos,"
which means "self." It describes conditions in which a person is removed from social
interaction. In other words, he becomes an "isolated self."
✔✔IDEA- First recognized ASD - ✔✔1990
✔✔Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) - ✔✔when the Individualized Education
Program (IEP) is written, a determination is made regarding the amount of time each
student with disabilities will spend with nondisabled peers both in classroom and all
other school activities.
✔✔Antecedent - ✔✔An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or
occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
✔✔Consequence - ✔✔A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.
✔✔ABA- Defined - ✔✔The science in which tactics derived from the principles of
behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is
used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior.
✔✔A-B-C contingency - ✔✔antecedent, behavior, consequence
✔✔Motivating Operation (MO) - ✔✔An environmental variable that (a) alters (increases
or decreases) the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and (b)
alters (increases or decreases) the current frequency of all behavior that have been
reinforced by that stimulus, object, or event.
, ✔✔Positive Reinforcement - ✔✔Increasing behaviors by presenting a stimuli, such as
food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that, when presented after a response,
increases the future likelihoss of that same response.
✔✔Positive Punishment - ✔✔the administration of a stimulus to decrease the probability
of a behavior's recurring
✔✔Conditioned Reinforcement - ✔✔occurs when a stimulus reinforces set behaviors
through its association with a primary reinforcer
✔✔Unconditioned Reinforcement - ✔✔a reinforcement that is inherent, such as food
✔✔Schedules of reinforcement - ✔✔Intermittent Schedules- ratio/interval schedules.
Not all responses of the same response class can be reinforced.
Compound Schedules
✔✔operant conditioning - ✔✔a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if
followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher- behavior that is selected
by its consequences
✔✔Primary reinforcers - ✔✔stimuli, such as food or warmth, that have reinforcement
value without learning
✔✔target behavior - ✔✔the response class selected for intervention; can be defined
either functionally or topographically
✔✔goal - ✔✔A result that a person aims for and works hard to reach
✔✔objective - ✔✔Factual, related to reality or physical objects; not influenced by
emotions, unbiased
✔✔errorless learning - ✔✔ensures success, early immediate prompts, prompts faded
over time, decreases frustration/increases motivation
✔✔Strategies for generalization and maintenance - ✔✔Teach loosely, use multiple
exemplars, vary instructional methods, select target behaviors that will get naturally
reinforced,
✔✔prompt fading strategies - ✔✔most-to-least prompts, graduated guidance, least-to-
most prompts, time delay.
Fading out stimulus prompts gradually to transfer stimulus control
✔✔inter-trial interval - ✔✔The time interval between presentation of the consequence
for one trial and the presentation of the SD for the next trial.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔topography - ✔✔what a behavior looks like
✔✔generallization - ✔✔intervention can only be deemed a success if change can be
shown in different environments and with multiple people
✔✔evidence based - ✔✔description of medical techniques or practices that are
supported by scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy, rather than merely on
supposition and tradition.
✔✔advocacy - ✔✔Quality advocacy services are person-centered and developed using
a co-production approach that aims to maximize the participation of people who use
services and their carers
✔✔person centered planning - ✔✔a method of planning for people with disabilities that
places the person and his family at the center of the planning process
seeks to build a support network, increase independence and connect to the community
✔✔Circle of support - ✔✔meeting of extended family, friends, service providers, etc. to
ensure well-being of a child about to age out of cps care
✔✔essential lifestyle plans - ✔✔ELP is a guided process for learning how someone
wants to live and for developing a plan to help make it happen. It's also:
A snapshot of how someone wants to live today, serving as a blueprint for how to
support someone tomorrow;
A way of organizing and communicating what is important to an individual;
A flexible process that can be used in combination with other person centered
techniques;
A way of making sure that the person is heard, regardless of the severity of disability.
✔✔QASP will demonstrate - ✔✔trustworthiness, honesty, fairness and sincerity
,✔✔Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) - ✔✔A disorder characterized by deficits in social
relatedness and communication skills that are often accompanied by repetitive,
ritualistic behavior.
✔✔ASD deficits - ✔✔Social interaction, communication, repetitive/restricitive beahviors
✔✔Triad of Impairments - ✔✔Deficits in reciprocal social interaction
Deficits in communication
Restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests or activities.
✔✔joint attention - ✔✔Joint Attention and Social Referencing. Joint attention occurs
when two people share interest in an object or event and there is understanding
between the two people that they are both interested in the same object or event.Less
likely to use gestures or eye contact as a means of sharing interest and directing
interactional partners' attention to object of interest
•Instrumental use less likely to be impaired
✔✔Autism (word) History - ✔✔The word "autism" comes from the Greek word "autos,"
which means "self." It describes conditions in which a person is removed from social
interaction. In other words, he becomes an "isolated self."
✔✔IDEA- First recognized ASD - ✔✔1990
✔✔Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) - ✔✔when the Individualized Education
Program (IEP) is written, a determination is made regarding the amount of time each
student with disabilities will spend with nondisabled peers both in classroom and all
other school activities.
✔✔Antecedent - ✔✔An environmental condition or stimulus change existing or
occurring prior to a behavior of interest.
✔✔Consequence - ✔✔A stimulus change that follows a behavior of interest.
✔✔ABA- Defined - ✔✔The science in which tactics derived from the principles of
behavior are applied to improve socially significant behavior and experimentation is
used to identify the variables responsible for the improvement in behavior.
✔✔A-B-C contingency - ✔✔antecedent, behavior, consequence
✔✔Motivating Operation (MO) - ✔✔An environmental variable that (a) alters (increases
or decreases) the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object, or event; and (b)
alters (increases or decreases) the current frequency of all behavior that have been
reinforced by that stimulus, object, or event.
, ✔✔Positive Reinforcement - ✔✔Increasing behaviors by presenting a stimuli, such as
food. A positive reinforcer is any stimulus that, when presented after a response,
increases the future likelihoss of that same response.
✔✔Positive Punishment - ✔✔the administration of a stimulus to decrease the probability
of a behavior's recurring
✔✔Conditioned Reinforcement - ✔✔occurs when a stimulus reinforces set behaviors
through its association with a primary reinforcer
✔✔Unconditioned Reinforcement - ✔✔a reinforcement that is inherent, such as food
✔✔Schedules of reinforcement - ✔✔Intermittent Schedules- ratio/interval schedules.
Not all responses of the same response class can be reinforced.
Compound Schedules
✔✔operant conditioning - ✔✔a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if
followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher- behavior that is selected
by its consequences
✔✔Primary reinforcers - ✔✔stimuli, such as food or warmth, that have reinforcement
value without learning
✔✔target behavior - ✔✔the response class selected for intervention; can be defined
either functionally or topographically
✔✔goal - ✔✔A result that a person aims for and works hard to reach
✔✔objective - ✔✔Factual, related to reality or physical objects; not influenced by
emotions, unbiased
✔✔errorless learning - ✔✔ensures success, early immediate prompts, prompts faded
over time, decreases frustration/increases motivation
✔✔Strategies for generalization and maintenance - ✔✔Teach loosely, use multiple
exemplars, vary instructional methods, select target behaviors that will get naturally
reinforced,
✔✔prompt fading strategies - ✔✔most-to-least prompts, graduated guidance, least-to-
most prompts, time delay.
Fading out stimulus prompts gradually to transfer stimulus control
✔✔inter-trial interval - ✔✔The time interval between presentation of the consequence
for one trial and the presentation of the SD for the next trial.
