ABAT TEST PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
RATED A+
✔✔Satiation - ✔✔When a reinforcing item, activity, or edible is made completely
available without any contingencies response. no longer wants crackers because he
has had many.
✔✔Contingency - ✔✔when a reinforcing activity, item or edible is held contingent on
neutral or aversive activity, item or edible. Ex: "John you need to clean up first before
we can go outside to play."
✔✔Motivating operation - ✔✔Affects how strongly a person is reinforced or punished by
the consequences of their behavior. Ex: food deprivation is a MO; if a person is hungry,
food is strongly reinforcing, but if a person is satiated, food is not reinforcing.
✔✔Antecedent - ✔✔What happens before the behavior, triggers the behavior. " The
therapists grabs their bag and begins to walk toward the door while say bye bye, the
client drops to the floor, scream , and cry.
✔✔Behavior - ✔✔A response, must be in objective terms. Non compliance is not a is
not a behavior, behavior is labeled as " client turned head in opposite direction." "walked
away after given a demand."
✔✔Consequence - ✔✔what follows the behavior that will either influence the behavior
to increase or decrease ex: Client is given a piece of cookie for requesting "cookie."
client then independently asks for cookie every time they want a cookie.
✔✔3 term contingency - ✔✔Illustrates how behavior is elicited by the environment and
how the consequences of the behavior can affect its future occurrence.
✔✔stimulus - ✔✔Any item, action, attention, or edible ex; noise level, eye contact,
instruction, presence of person, toy, edible, pointing to an object.
✔✔Discriminative stimulus - ✔✔stimulus in the presence of which a particular response
will be reinforced. Ex; therapist walks in the door(DS) and signals to the child that they
have availability if a reinforcement (fun dispenser) if they follow instruction and use their
words.
✔✔Stimulus control - ✔✔the environment or stimulus controls the clients' behavior ex;
walking in the library should control the clients' behavior to quiet talking and walking.
✔✔response - ✔✔Any behavior that results from a stimulus ex: "child matches the
picture of the boat when given card and instruction, "put with the same."
, ✔✔Discrete trial - ✔✔a series of "teaching attempts" w/ each "attempt" called a discrete
trial" or "trial' ex; teaching a child to learn to identify the colors red and blue by asking
her to point to red or blue cards placed on the table.
✔✔Discrimination training - ✔✔A procedure to gain stimulus control ex: laying two cards
on the table and asking " which one is the dog?"
✔✔Discrete trial training - ✔✔Method of teaching that uses SD- Response-
consequence pattern. mass trial, adult led instruction. Typically very structured with lots
of repetition.
✔✔Natural environment training - ✔✔NET captures and contrives learning opportunities
in the natural setting. ( can be learned through play) NET also involves learning in :real
life" versus in flashcards or at a table, and this teaching style follows the childs lead
using the learner's MO ( preferred activity) to facilitate learning.
✔✔fluency based training - ✔✔working with our learners to take a mastered skill and
promote responding with speed and accuracy for ex: rapid fire SD across operants such
as " find the pig' what does the pig say? point to your nose. who says "moo?" tell me
some foods, where is your belly? find the car.
✔✔generalization - ✔✔being able to use skills in a variety of settings, with a variety of
people., and/or across a variety of examples. ex: knowing a real life pitfall, a collie, and
a stiffed animal are all dogs.
✔✔Maintenance - ✔✔Keeping a mastered skill across time, even when reinforcement is
thinned. ex; teach a child ready, set-- and they are able to do this one month later.
✔✔Caregiver training - ✔✔teaching parents and caregivers behavioral strategies to
address maladaptive behaviors and build adaptive skills.
✔✔Premack principle - ✔✔A first then contingency. a reinforcement is only delivered
upon completion of the demand.
✔✔preference assessment - ✔✔observations to identify which items a learner favors,
which may become potential reinforcers. Multiple ways to access. free operant, paired
stimulus, single stimulus, multiple stimulus, with or without replacement.
✔✔Prompt - ✔✔a cue given to learners to increase their likelihood of a correct
response. Can be physical, visual, verbal, written, positional, etc.
✔✔Errorless learning - ✔✔Ensures the learner of a correct response. this helps to
eliminate the frustration and ensure success by immediately prompting the correct
response. Also helps the learner to come into contact with the reinforcer more
frequently. This tech involves the 0 sec. prompt and utilizes prompt fading.
RATED A+
✔✔Satiation - ✔✔When a reinforcing item, activity, or edible is made completely
available without any contingencies response. no longer wants crackers because he
has had many.
✔✔Contingency - ✔✔when a reinforcing activity, item or edible is held contingent on
neutral or aversive activity, item or edible. Ex: "John you need to clean up first before
we can go outside to play."
✔✔Motivating operation - ✔✔Affects how strongly a person is reinforced or punished by
the consequences of their behavior. Ex: food deprivation is a MO; if a person is hungry,
food is strongly reinforcing, but if a person is satiated, food is not reinforcing.
✔✔Antecedent - ✔✔What happens before the behavior, triggers the behavior. " The
therapists grabs their bag and begins to walk toward the door while say bye bye, the
client drops to the floor, scream , and cry.
✔✔Behavior - ✔✔A response, must be in objective terms. Non compliance is not a is
not a behavior, behavior is labeled as " client turned head in opposite direction." "walked
away after given a demand."
✔✔Consequence - ✔✔what follows the behavior that will either influence the behavior
to increase or decrease ex: Client is given a piece of cookie for requesting "cookie."
client then independently asks for cookie every time they want a cookie.
✔✔3 term contingency - ✔✔Illustrates how behavior is elicited by the environment and
how the consequences of the behavior can affect its future occurrence.
✔✔stimulus - ✔✔Any item, action, attention, or edible ex; noise level, eye contact,
instruction, presence of person, toy, edible, pointing to an object.
✔✔Discriminative stimulus - ✔✔stimulus in the presence of which a particular response
will be reinforced. Ex; therapist walks in the door(DS) and signals to the child that they
have availability if a reinforcement (fun dispenser) if they follow instruction and use their
words.
✔✔Stimulus control - ✔✔the environment or stimulus controls the clients' behavior ex;
walking in the library should control the clients' behavior to quiet talking and walking.
✔✔response - ✔✔Any behavior that results from a stimulus ex: "child matches the
picture of the boat when given card and instruction, "put with the same."
, ✔✔Discrete trial - ✔✔a series of "teaching attempts" w/ each "attempt" called a discrete
trial" or "trial' ex; teaching a child to learn to identify the colors red and blue by asking
her to point to red or blue cards placed on the table.
✔✔Discrimination training - ✔✔A procedure to gain stimulus control ex: laying two cards
on the table and asking " which one is the dog?"
✔✔Discrete trial training - ✔✔Method of teaching that uses SD- Response-
consequence pattern. mass trial, adult led instruction. Typically very structured with lots
of repetition.
✔✔Natural environment training - ✔✔NET captures and contrives learning opportunities
in the natural setting. ( can be learned through play) NET also involves learning in :real
life" versus in flashcards or at a table, and this teaching style follows the childs lead
using the learner's MO ( preferred activity) to facilitate learning.
✔✔fluency based training - ✔✔working with our learners to take a mastered skill and
promote responding with speed and accuracy for ex: rapid fire SD across operants such
as " find the pig' what does the pig say? point to your nose. who says "moo?" tell me
some foods, where is your belly? find the car.
✔✔generalization - ✔✔being able to use skills in a variety of settings, with a variety of
people., and/or across a variety of examples. ex: knowing a real life pitfall, a collie, and
a stiffed animal are all dogs.
✔✔Maintenance - ✔✔Keeping a mastered skill across time, even when reinforcement is
thinned. ex; teach a child ready, set-- and they are able to do this one month later.
✔✔Caregiver training - ✔✔teaching parents and caregivers behavioral strategies to
address maladaptive behaviors and build adaptive skills.
✔✔Premack principle - ✔✔A first then contingency. a reinforcement is only delivered
upon completion of the demand.
✔✔preference assessment - ✔✔observations to identify which items a learner favors,
which may become potential reinforcers. Multiple ways to access. free operant, paired
stimulus, single stimulus, multiple stimulus, with or without replacement.
✔✔Prompt - ✔✔a cue given to learners to increase their likelihood of a correct
response. Can be physical, visual, verbal, written, positional, etc.
✔✔Errorless learning - ✔✔Ensures the learner of a correct response. this helps to
eliminate the frustration and ensure success by immediately prompting the correct
response. Also helps the learner to come into contact with the reinforcer more
frequently. This tech involves the 0 sec. prompt and utilizes prompt fading.
