ABAT FINAL PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Joint attention - ✔✔-sharing attention between another person and an object
✔✔IDEA - ✔✔ASD was added in 1990
✔✔Rate of Autism - ✔✔-Old rate= 1 in 68
-New rate= 1 in 59
✔✔Perseveration - ✔✔Behavior that is repetitive in nature
✔✔Replacement Behavior - ✔✔-the behavior adults teach a child to use instead of the
challenging behavior
-REPLACE the targeted problem behavior.
-This Behavior MATCHES the function of the problem behavior
✔✔Alternate behavior - ✔✔-an appropriate behavior that can be used INSTEAD of the
targeted problem Behavior, BUT it does NOT serve the same function
✔✔Two Main types of Behavior - ✔✔-respondent and Operant
✔✔Five disorders that previously made up what is now ASD in the DSM - ✔✔-Autistic
disorder
-Asperger's syndrome
-Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS)
-Childhood Dis-integrative Disorder
-Rett Syndrome
✔✔four pivotal behaviors - ✔✔-motivation
-response to multiple cues
-self management
-social initiation
✔✔Date the DSM-V was effective - ✔✔1/1/2014
✔✔Groups of people who should be developed as resources and groups that should
not - ✔✔-family, family friends, community, relatives
-NOT= individuals from public agencies (cops, teachers, firefighters)
✔✔Previous diagnosis's that were given to ASD before - ✔✔-schizophrenia, mentally
retarded (now intellectually disabled), and emotionally disturbed.
✔✔Main difference between Autism and Asperger's - ✔✔-Asperger's= an avg IQ
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Joint attention - ✔✔-sharing attention between another person and an object
✔✔IDEA - ✔✔ASD was added in 1990
✔✔Rate of Autism - ✔✔-Old rate= 1 in 68
-New rate= 1 in 59
✔✔Perseveration - ✔✔Behavior that is repetitive in nature
✔✔Replacement Behavior - ✔✔-the behavior adults teach a child to use instead of the
challenging behavior
-REPLACE the targeted problem behavior.
-This Behavior MATCHES the function of the problem behavior
✔✔Alternate behavior - ✔✔-an appropriate behavior that can be used INSTEAD of the
targeted problem Behavior, BUT it does NOT serve the same function
✔✔Two Main types of Behavior - ✔✔-respondent and Operant
✔✔Five disorders that previously made up what is now ASD in the DSM - ✔✔-Autistic
disorder
-Asperger's syndrome
-Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS)
-Childhood Dis-integrative Disorder
-Rett Syndrome
✔✔four pivotal behaviors - ✔✔-motivation
-response to multiple cues
-self management
-social initiation
✔✔Date the DSM-V was effective - ✔✔1/1/2014
✔✔Groups of people who should be developed as resources and groups that should
not - ✔✔-family, family friends, community, relatives
-NOT= individuals from public agencies (cops, teachers, firefighters)
✔✔Previous diagnosis's that were given to ASD before - ✔✔-schizophrenia, mentally
retarded (now intellectually disabled), and emotionally disturbed.
✔✔Main difference between Autism and Asperger's - ✔✔-Asperger's= an avg IQ
