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ABA Study Guide
Comprehensive
Individualized
Intensive early intervention - answer✔✔ABA techniques are broken down into 3 categories:
Comprehensive - answer✔✔refers to interventions that address a full range of life skills, from
communication and sociability to self-care and readiness for school.
Early intervention - answer✔✔refers to programs designed to begin before age 4.
Intensive - answer✔✔refers to programs that total 25 to 40 hours per week for 1 to 3 years
Verbal Behavior - answer✔✔also known as VB, is a method of teaching language that focuses
on the idea that a meaning of a word is found in their functions. The term was coined by B.F.
Skinner. To teach a child with language delays a meaning of a word, one must first teach its
function.
B.F Skinner - answer✔✔Who used analysis of Verbal Behavior or VB that's in conjunction with
ABA to assess and facilitate the development of language skills?
VB or Verbal Behavior - answer✔✔What is still Applied Behavior Analysis but its emphasis is
the functional analysis of language rather than behavior in general?
Skinner states the basic verbal parts of language include: - answer✔✔Echoics
Mands
Tacts
Intraverbals.
Echoics - answer✔✔Repeating what is heard or imitating what someone else has said
Mands - answer✔✔Asking for reinforcers that you want or requesting or demanding
Tacts - answer✔✔Naming or identifying objects, actions, events, etc.
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Intraverbals - answer✔✔exchange of words between two individuals in which the exchanged
words do not match conversation
Textual behavior - answer✔✔Skinner, 1957 is reading, without any implications that the reader
understands what is being read.
Transcription - answer✔✔consists of writing and spelling words that are spoken Skinner, 1957
Generalization - answer✔✔occurs in steps three - six and prevents the child from just learning
how to only expressively label something or how to only identify something among pictures and
places as occurs often in ABA.
Verbal is a great approach that can be combined with other teaching methods such as Discrete
Trial Training D.T.T or Natural Environment Training N.E.T? - answer✔✔Verbal is a great
approach that can be combined with other teaching methods such as Discrete Trial Training
D.T.T. or Natural Environment Training NET.
Discrete Trial Training D.T.T or Natural Environment Training N.E.T. - answer✔✔Verbal
Behavior can be combined with what other treatment methods?
Item is considered Mastered when child knows the following - answer✔✔1. MAND
2. TACT
3. ECHOIC
4. INTRAVERBAL
5. RECEPTIVE
6. RFFC Receptive labeling by Feature, Function, and Class
Transcription is also refered to as what? - answer✔✔Skinner also referred to this behavior as
taking dictation, with the key repertoires involving not only the manual production of letters, but
also accurate spelling of the spoken word
ABA also does what? - answer✔✔seeks to understand why a person is engaging in a behavior
targeted for change by identifying and modifying the environmental variables that motivate,
trigger and maintain behavior.
Learning - answer✔✔A relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience.
Ivan Pavlov - answer✔✔Founder of Classical Conditioning.
Classical Conditioning - answer✔✔Behaviors are learned by association and experiences. A
form of behavioral learning in which a previously neutral stimulus acquires the power to elicit
the same innate reflex produced by another stimulus.
ABA Study Guide
Comprehensive
Individualized
Intensive early intervention - answer✔✔ABA techniques are broken down into 3 categories:
Comprehensive - answer✔✔refers to interventions that address a full range of life skills, from
communication and sociability to self-care and readiness for school.
Early intervention - answer✔✔refers to programs designed to begin before age 4.
Intensive - answer✔✔refers to programs that total 25 to 40 hours per week for 1 to 3 years
Verbal Behavior - answer✔✔also known as VB, is a method of teaching language that focuses
on the idea that a meaning of a word is found in their functions. The term was coined by B.F.
Skinner. To teach a child with language delays a meaning of a word, one must first teach its
function.
B.F Skinner - answer✔✔Who used analysis of Verbal Behavior or VB that's in conjunction with
ABA to assess and facilitate the development of language skills?
VB or Verbal Behavior - answer✔✔What is still Applied Behavior Analysis but its emphasis is
the functional analysis of language rather than behavior in general?
Skinner states the basic verbal parts of language include: - answer✔✔Echoics
Mands
Tacts
Intraverbals.
Echoics - answer✔✔Repeating what is heard or imitating what someone else has said
Mands - answer✔✔Asking for reinforcers that you want or requesting or demanding
Tacts - answer✔✔Naming or identifying objects, actions, events, etc.
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Intraverbals - answer✔✔exchange of words between two individuals in which the exchanged
words do not match conversation
Textual behavior - answer✔✔Skinner, 1957 is reading, without any implications that the reader
understands what is being read.
Transcription - answer✔✔consists of writing and spelling words that are spoken Skinner, 1957
Generalization - answer✔✔occurs in steps three - six and prevents the child from just learning
how to only expressively label something or how to only identify something among pictures and
places as occurs often in ABA.
Verbal is a great approach that can be combined with other teaching methods such as Discrete
Trial Training D.T.T or Natural Environment Training N.E.T? - answer✔✔Verbal is a great
approach that can be combined with other teaching methods such as Discrete Trial Training
D.T.T. or Natural Environment Training NET.
Discrete Trial Training D.T.T or Natural Environment Training N.E.T. - answer✔✔Verbal
Behavior can be combined with what other treatment methods?
Item is considered Mastered when child knows the following - answer✔✔1. MAND
2. TACT
3. ECHOIC
4. INTRAVERBAL
5. RECEPTIVE
6. RFFC Receptive labeling by Feature, Function, and Class
Transcription is also refered to as what? - answer✔✔Skinner also referred to this behavior as
taking dictation, with the key repertoires involving not only the manual production of letters, but
also accurate spelling of the spoken word
ABA also does what? - answer✔✔seeks to understand why a person is engaging in a behavior
targeted for change by identifying and modifying the environmental variables that motivate,
trigger and maintain behavior.
Learning - answer✔✔A relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience.
Ivan Pavlov - answer✔✔Founder of Classical Conditioning.
Classical Conditioning - answer✔✔Behaviors are learned by association and experiences. A
form of behavioral learning in which a previously neutral stimulus acquires the power to elicit
the same innate reflex produced by another stimulus.
