QASP SCRIPTED SET QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Mixed schedule - ✔✔compound schedule of reinforcement consisting of 2 or more
basic schedules of reinforcement that occur in an alternating, usually random sequence
✔✔Satiation - ✔✔A decrease in the frequency of operant behavior presumed to be the
result of continued contact with or consumption of a reinforcer that has followed the
behavior.
✔✔deprivation - ✔✔the state of lacking or doing without something; loss
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any
known living individuals.
✔✔extinction burst - ✔✔an increase in the frequency of responding when an extinction
procedure is initially implemented.
✔✔behavior modification - ✔✔the use of operant conditioning techniques to bring about
desired changes in behavior
✔✔visual supports for ASD - ✔✔Pictures, models, video, graphics, realia, body
language, and so on makes content-area concepts easier to understand.
✔✔PECS - ✔✔Picture Exchange Communication System- begins with teaching a
student to exchange a picture of a desired item with a teacher/communicative partner,
who immediately honors the request. After the student learns to spontaneously request
for a desired item, the system goes on to teach discrimination among symbols and then
how to construct a simple sentence. In the most advanced phases, individuals are
taught to respond to questions and to comment. Additionally, descriptive language
concepts such as size, shape, color, number, etc. are also taught so the student can
make their message more specific. For example, I want big yellow ball.
, ✔✔ASD characteristics - ✔✔Communication- Delay or lack of development of
language, diffiulty holding conversations, unusual or repetitive language, play that is not
appropriate for developmental level.
Social interaction- Difficutly using nonverbal behaviors to regulate social interaction,
failure to develop age appropriate peer relationships, little sharing of pleasure,
achievements or interests with others, lack of social or emotional reciprocity.
Restrictied/Repetitive activities- Interests are narrow in focus, overly intense and/or
unusual, unreasonalbe insistence on sameness and folowing familiar routines, repetitive
motor mannerisms, preoccupation with parts of objects.
✔✔Hyper/hyposensitive sensory input - ✔✔Sometimes the senses of autistic children
are in 'hypo', so that they do not really see, hear or feel anything. To stimulate their
senses they might wave their hands around or rock forth and back or make strange
noises.
Hypersensitive is the exact opposite, some may get too much sensory input from any of
the senses.
✔✔Historical definitions of autism - ✔✔1908- word autism is used to describe
schizophrenic patients who were also withdrawn and self-absorbed.
Kanner (1943) described children who were highly intelligent but "displayed a powerful
desire for aloneness" and rigidity/insistence on sameness
Hans Asperger (1944) difficulty with social interaction
1967- refrigerator mothers were the cause of autism
1980-infantile autism listed in the DSM
1987-autism disorder in DSM
1991-federal government makes autism a sped category
1990- IDEA recognized ASD
1994-Asperger's syndrome added to DSM
2013- DSM-5 folds all subcategories of autism ASD with two categories 1) impaired
social communication and/or interaction. 2) restricted and/or repetitive beahviors
✔✔Co-Morbid conditions associated with autism - ✔✔Mental retardation, learning
difficulties, ADD/ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, CD, Nonverbal learnning disabilities
✔✔Asperger's Syndrome Definition - ✔✔Developmentally appropriate language, but
differences (pragmatics, sentence structure, pronunciation, vocabulary)
Social deficits, Literal interperatation of langauge
✔✔Asperger's Syndrome (HFA) common characteristics - ✔✔He's just as smart as
other folks, but he has more trouble with social skills. He also tends to have an
obsessive focus on one topic or perform the same behaviors again and again.
SURE A+
✔✔Mixed schedule - ✔✔compound schedule of reinforcement consisting of 2 or more
basic schedules of reinforcement that occur in an alternating, usually random sequence
✔✔Satiation - ✔✔A decrease in the frequency of operant behavior presumed to be the
result of continued contact with or consumption of a reinforcer that has followed the
behavior.
✔✔deprivation - ✔✔the state of lacking or doing without something; loss
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any
known living individuals.
✔✔extinction burst - ✔✔an increase in the frequency of responding when an extinction
procedure is initially implemented.
✔✔behavior modification - ✔✔the use of operant conditioning techniques to bring about
desired changes in behavior
✔✔visual supports for ASD - ✔✔Pictures, models, video, graphics, realia, body
language, and so on makes content-area concepts easier to understand.
✔✔PECS - ✔✔Picture Exchange Communication System- begins with teaching a
student to exchange a picture of a desired item with a teacher/communicative partner,
who immediately honors the request. After the student learns to spontaneously request
for a desired item, the system goes on to teach discrimination among symbols and then
how to construct a simple sentence. In the most advanced phases, individuals are
taught to respond to questions and to comment. Additionally, descriptive language
concepts such as size, shape, color, number, etc. are also taught so the student can
make their message more specific. For example, I want big yellow ball.
, ✔✔ASD characteristics - ✔✔Communication- Delay or lack of development of
language, diffiulty holding conversations, unusual or repetitive language, play that is not
appropriate for developmental level.
Social interaction- Difficutly using nonverbal behaviors to regulate social interaction,
failure to develop age appropriate peer relationships, little sharing of pleasure,
achievements or interests with others, lack of social or emotional reciprocity.
Restrictied/Repetitive activities- Interests are narrow in focus, overly intense and/or
unusual, unreasonalbe insistence on sameness and folowing familiar routines, repetitive
motor mannerisms, preoccupation with parts of objects.
✔✔Hyper/hyposensitive sensory input - ✔✔Sometimes the senses of autistic children
are in 'hypo', so that they do not really see, hear or feel anything. To stimulate their
senses they might wave their hands around or rock forth and back or make strange
noises.
Hypersensitive is the exact opposite, some may get too much sensory input from any of
the senses.
✔✔Historical definitions of autism - ✔✔1908- word autism is used to describe
schizophrenic patients who were also withdrawn and self-absorbed.
Kanner (1943) described children who were highly intelligent but "displayed a powerful
desire for aloneness" and rigidity/insistence on sameness
Hans Asperger (1944) difficulty with social interaction
1967- refrigerator mothers were the cause of autism
1980-infantile autism listed in the DSM
1987-autism disorder in DSM
1991-federal government makes autism a sped category
1990- IDEA recognized ASD
1994-Asperger's syndrome added to DSM
2013- DSM-5 folds all subcategories of autism ASD with two categories 1) impaired
social communication and/or interaction. 2) restricted and/or repetitive beahviors
✔✔Co-Morbid conditions associated with autism - ✔✔Mental retardation, learning
difficulties, ADD/ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, CD, Nonverbal learnning disabilities
✔✔Asperger's Syndrome Definition - ✔✔Developmentally appropriate language, but
differences (pragmatics, sentence structure, pronunciation, vocabulary)
Social deficits, Literal interperatation of langauge
✔✔Asperger's Syndrome (HFA) common characteristics - ✔✔He's just as smart as
other folks, but he has more trouble with social skills. He also tends to have an
obsessive focus on one topic or perform the same behaviors again and again.
