ABA 626 COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Reinforcer assessment - ✔✔Refers to a variety of direct, empirical methods for
presenting one or more stimuli contingent on a target response and measuring their
effectiveness as reinforcers.
✔✔Pivotal behavior - ✔✔a fundamental skill that, once learned, can lead to
improvements in other areas of functioning (eye contact, approaching others, joint
attention)
✔✔Socially significant behaviors - ✔✔skills and behaviors that are important to an
individual and relevant to social relationships (brushing teeth, reading, communication)
✔✔Relevance of behavior rule - ✔✔a target behavior should be selected only when it
can be determined that the behavior is likely to produce reinforcement in the person's
natural environment
✔✔Functional analysis - ✔✔a procedure in applied behavior analysis (ABA) that helps
identify the purpose and causes of a behavior
✔✔ ABC Continuous Recording - ✔✔Amy was observing her client during their ABA
session. They engaged in aggressive behavior when given a demand. Amy placed an X
on the pre-typed portion of the data sheet under Antecedents. What type of recording
was Amy using?
✔✔ABC Narrative Recording - ✔✔Amy was observing her client during their ABA
session. They engaged in aggressive behavior when given a demand. Amy wrote in
under antecedents "demand to do work". What type of recording was Amy using?
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Reinforcer assessment - ✔✔Refers to a variety of direct, empirical methods for
presenting one or more stimuli contingent on a target response and measuring their
effectiveness as reinforcers.
✔✔Pivotal behavior - ✔✔a fundamental skill that, once learned, can lead to
improvements in other areas of functioning (eye contact, approaching others, joint
attention)
✔✔Socially significant behaviors - ✔✔skills and behaviors that are important to an
individual and relevant to social relationships (brushing teeth, reading, communication)
✔✔Relevance of behavior rule - ✔✔a target behavior should be selected only when it
can be determined that the behavior is likely to produce reinforcement in the person's
natural environment
✔✔Functional analysis - ✔✔a procedure in applied behavior analysis (ABA) that helps
identify the purpose and causes of a behavior
✔✔ ABC Continuous Recording - ✔✔Amy was observing her client during their ABA
session. They engaged in aggressive behavior when given a demand. Amy placed an X
on the pre-typed portion of the data sheet under Antecedents. What type of recording
was Amy using?
✔✔ABC Narrative Recording - ✔✔Amy was observing her client during their ABA
session. They engaged in aggressive behavior when given a demand. Amy wrote in
under antecedents "demand to do work". What type of recording was Amy using?
