ABAT EXAMINATION TEST SOLVED
QUESTIONS AND COURSE NOTES GRADED A+
2026.
⫸ Desired results for Families (DRDP). Ans: *families support their
child's learning and development
*families achieve their own goals
⫸ Skills streaming. Ans: -A social skills training method introduced
by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein in 1973
-4 part training approach
*modeling
*role-playing
*performance feedback
*Generalization
⫸ Errorless learning. Ans: -Therapy strategy that ensures children
always respond correctly
-As each skill is taught, children are provided with a prompt or cue
immediately following an instruction
⫸ Serial Thinking. Ans: -Theory that individuals with autism cannot
process more than one piece of information at a time.
-Give clients one instruction at a time to help support the client
, ⫸ Transitions in TEACCH. Ans: -Students are typically provided
with transition objects when moving from one center to another
-place object or card in a receiving box or envelope
⫸ Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) as part of IDEA. Ans: -
students must spend as much time as possible mainstreaming in
general education
⫸ Founding figures in ABA. Ans: -Pavlov: respondent conditioning
-thorndike: Law of Effect
-Watson: Father of Behaviorism
-Skinner: Most associated with Behaviorism
⫸ Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT). Ans: -derives some principles
from ABA
*reinforcement or operant conditioning
*more naturalistic than DTT
⫸ Auditory Processing Disorder (APD). Ans: -Typically have
NORMAL hearing but STRUGGLE to PROCESS and make
MEANING of sound
*ASD= problems w/ understanding the sounds of language
*APD= problems w/ the meaning of whats being said
QUESTIONS AND COURSE NOTES GRADED A+
2026.
⫸ Desired results for Families (DRDP). Ans: *families support their
child's learning and development
*families achieve their own goals
⫸ Skills streaming. Ans: -A social skills training method introduced
by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein in 1973
-4 part training approach
*modeling
*role-playing
*performance feedback
*Generalization
⫸ Errorless learning. Ans: -Therapy strategy that ensures children
always respond correctly
-As each skill is taught, children are provided with a prompt or cue
immediately following an instruction
⫸ Serial Thinking. Ans: -Theory that individuals with autism cannot
process more than one piece of information at a time.
-Give clients one instruction at a time to help support the client
, ⫸ Transitions in TEACCH. Ans: -Students are typically provided
with transition objects when moving from one center to another
-place object or card in a receiving box or envelope
⫸ Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) as part of IDEA. Ans: -
students must spend as much time as possible mainstreaming in
general education
⫸ Founding figures in ABA. Ans: -Pavlov: respondent conditioning
-thorndike: Law of Effect
-Watson: Father of Behaviorism
-Skinner: Most associated with Behaviorism
⫸ Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT). Ans: -derives some principles
from ABA
*reinforcement or operant conditioning
*more naturalistic than DTT
⫸ Auditory Processing Disorder (APD). Ans: -Typically have
NORMAL hearing but STRUGGLE to PROCESS and make
MEANING of sound
*ASD= problems w/ understanding the sounds of language
*APD= problems w/ the meaning of whats being said
