ASSESSMENT
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION
QUESTION 1
Isolation - ANSWERS-teaches the student to pair the stimulus with reinforcement.
Once it is paired you mix it up with other stimuli (distractors).
QUESTION 2
Mixed trials - ANSWERS-mixing mastered SD's with target SD's to ensure
discrimination
QUESTION 3
Discrete trial instruction - ANSWERS-working one on one with a student,
breaking tasks down into small steps until mastery.
QUESTION 4
Errorless learning - ANSWERS-ensures success, early immediate prompts,
prompts faded over time, decreases frustration/increases motivation
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QUESTION 5
Trial by trial data - ANSWERS-data is collected after each trial on whether or not
the response was correct, incorrect, or mastered
QUESTION 6
Probe data - ANSWERS-data is collected on the initial trial. Only checks the initial
trial of each program or target item to see whether the teaching and prompting of
the previous session was enough to maintain the target skill or item the following
day
QUESTION 7
Naturalistic teaching - ANSWERS-the reinforcer is always related to the item
being taught. Behavior should be taught in the environment in which it is used, the
learners items and activities of interest should set the occassion for teaching,
teaching sessions should be across a variety of settings, materials, types of
responses and verbal operants, teaching should focus on functional language and
skills
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QUESTION 8
Stimulus control - ANSWERS-when certain aspects of the environment impact our
behaviors (ex: being quiet in a library).
QUESTION 9
Multiple exemplar training - ANSWERS-teaching with many different examples of
the same item or activity
QUESTION 10
Transfer trial - ANSWERS-when we re-present the original SD and then use a
lesser prompt than the first
QUESTION 11
Error correction - ANSWERS-if a child begins to emit an incorrect response, do
not allow them to finish if possible. You can prompt and show correct response as
soon as you see them answering incorrectly. Than use your transfer trial to fade out
the prompt, do a distractor trial and come back to the SD as a test to see if they got
it.
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