CARD BCAT EXAM 2025/2026 EXAM
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Forward Chaining - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Begin with the first SD- response
component in the chain and then continue forward through the remaining
SD-response components.
Example: Teaching a child to brush their teeth from the beginning of the
task with the SD "Brush your teeth" the child gets the tooth brush, turns on
the cold water, puts the toothbrush under the water... eventually then gets
towel, wipes mouth and hands and hangs towel up. The reinforcer will be
AFTER THE TARGET STEP and the Therapist will continue to guide the
child through the rest of the chain.
Discrimination Training - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The process of reinforcing a target
response only when the target antecedent or SD is present. Teaching the
client to "tell the difference between two or more SDs."
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,Examples: Teaching the child to be able to tell the difference between their
mom and dad in pictures with saying "Touch mom" or "Touch dad" and the
child responds correctly. When holding up an apple teaching the child to
answer the different questions of "What is it?" "What do you do with it?"
and "What color is it?" using only the apple as the stimulus.
Simultaneous Discrimination Training - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When multiple
objects are placed in front of the child and they are asked to touch, point or
pick up the item.
- This type has a visual field and most likely involves using a table and
chair or sitting on the floor
- Uses 7 step and the 4 step sequence of teaching (refer to initial training
notes)
- Examples of SDs that use this method: "Touch (color)", "Give me the
(object)" "Point to the (item)"
Successive Discrimination Training - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When the target and
the distractors cannot be presented simultaneously. The target and the
distractor occur across successive trials
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, - This type has NO visual field of stimuli.
- Uses 3 step and the 2 step sequence of teaching (refer to initial training
notes)
- Examples of SDs that use this method: Telling the client to do an action
like "Jump." (They cant do anything else at the same time) Asking the client
a question like "What is your name?" (They cannot answer anything else at
the same time)
Expanded trials - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Systematically increasing the time in
between presentation of the target Sd by gradually increasing the number
of trials of previously mastered targets. The formula is as follows:
TXdTXdTXdTXd, TXddTXddTXddTX, TXdddTXdddTXdddTX
Example: Target item: shoe Mastered items: cup and dog
For the TX above insert "shoe" for the d above insert "cup" or "dog"
Graduate Random Rotation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Systematically introducing
mastered items (one at a time) into random rotation with the target item.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100%
PASS
Forward Chaining - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Begin with the first SD- response
component in the chain and then continue forward through the remaining
SD-response components.
Example: Teaching a child to brush their teeth from the beginning of the
task with the SD "Brush your teeth" the child gets the tooth brush, turns on
the cold water, puts the toothbrush under the water... eventually then gets
towel, wipes mouth and hands and hangs towel up. The reinforcer will be
AFTER THE TARGET STEP and the Therapist will continue to guide the
child through the rest of the chain.
Discrimination Training - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The process of reinforcing a target
response only when the target antecedent or SD is present. Teaching the
client to "tell the difference between two or more SDs."
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,Examples: Teaching the child to be able to tell the difference between their
mom and dad in pictures with saying "Touch mom" or "Touch dad" and the
child responds correctly. When holding up an apple teaching the child to
answer the different questions of "What is it?" "What do you do with it?"
and "What color is it?" using only the apple as the stimulus.
Simultaneous Discrimination Training - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When multiple
objects are placed in front of the child and they are asked to touch, point or
pick up the item.
- This type has a visual field and most likely involves using a table and
chair or sitting on the floor
- Uses 7 step and the 4 step sequence of teaching (refer to initial training
notes)
- Examples of SDs that use this method: "Touch (color)", "Give me the
(object)" "Point to the (item)"
Successive Discrimination Training - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When the target and
the distractors cannot be presented simultaneously. The target and the
distractor occur across successive trials
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, - This type has NO visual field of stimuli.
- Uses 3 step and the 2 step sequence of teaching (refer to initial training
notes)
- Examples of SDs that use this method: Telling the client to do an action
like "Jump." (They cant do anything else at the same time) Asking the client
a question like "What is your name?" (They cannot answer anything else at
the same time)
Expanded trials - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Systematically increasing the time in
between presentation of the target Sd by gradually increasing the number
of trials of previously mastered targets. The formula is as follows:
TXdTXdTXdTXd, TXddTXddTXddTX, TXdddTXdddTXdddTX
Example: Target item: shoe Mastered items: cup and dog
For the TX above insert "shoe" for the d above insert "cup" or "dog"
Graduate Random Rotation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Systematically introducing
mastered items (one at a time) into random rotation with the target item.
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