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CARD BCAT Exam Questions And Answers
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Deficits in Social Communication - answer✔Basic Social Communication, Conversational
Language & Complex Social Language
3 Primary Areas Affected by ASD - answer✔Deficits in Social communication, social interactions,
and presence of restrictive or repetitive behaviors/ interests
Deficits in social interactions - answer✔Basic social behavior, basic social interactions & non
vocal gestures
Presence of restrictive or repetitive behaviors/ interests - answer✔Repetitive motor
mannerisms/ stereotypy, repetitive vocal behaviors/ stereotypy, object fixation &
manipulation, extreme need for sameness and routines, obsession with unusual topics of
interest, and hyper/ hypo- reactivity to sensory input
Skill repertoire - answer✔Language skills, adaptive skills, social skills, academic skills, motor
skills, play & leisure, perspective taking, executive function
perspective taking - answer✔Understanding how other people feel, think and behave
Executive function - answer✔Inhibition, flexibility, problem solving, and planning
Inhibition - answer✔Not talking about the movie you saw tho your boss but waiting to tell your
friends
Verbal communication - answer✔communication that portrays what they want or mean
through vocal, written, sounds or gestural behavior
Vocal communication - answer✔Using vocal cords to communicate
Physical prompt - answer✔Providing manual guidance to the learner to facilitate a correct
response. Can be full or partial prompt
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Model prompt - answer✔The therapist demonstrates a target response that the child is
expected to imitate.
Echoic prompt - answer✔therapist says target response word for word
Directive prompt - answer✔The therapist tells the child what to do, so that he successfully
engages in the target response.
Proximity prompt - answer✔The therapist uses "position cues" to indicate the target response.
Stimulus Manipulation Prompt - answer✔Making changes to task materials to assist the child in
responding ccorrectly. EX: changes color of circle to make the choice of circle more likely
Visual/ textual prompt - answer✔Technician showed picture/ object (visual) or word (textual)
to learner to evoke the correct response
Prompt Fading - answer✔The systematic removal of a prompt across successive trials. Used for
Errorless Learning and Error Correction.
Errorless Learning - answer✔A procedure used to teach a new skill involving the immediate
prompting of the response during the initial teaching stages and systematic removal of prompts
to avoid errors.
Aquisition - answer✔The learning of a new skill that is not yet in the learner's repertoire.
Acquisition Skill/Target Skill - answer✔The response or new behavior that is currently being
taught to the individual
Prompt Hierarchy - answer✔A systematic arrangement of prompts used in a particular order to
facilitate learning. Usually arranged according to the level of strength of the prompt or the
amount of support given to the learner.
Most to least Prompting - answer✔
What is the core principle of ABA? - answer✔Desirable consequences will increase whereas
undesirable consequences will decrease behavior
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - answer✔The application of the "Principles of Behavior" to
issues that are socially important, in order to produce practical change.
3- Term Contingency - answer✔A method used within ABA to understand, predict and change
behavior. Consists of Antecedent, Behavior and Consequence.
Antecedent - answer✔what happens prior to the behavior