QASP EXAMINERS CORE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Error Correction - ✔✔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.
✔✔Incidental teaching - ✔✔Structuring and sequencing learning opportunities so that
they occur within a natural setting and which is used to give the learner an opportunity
to practice a skill
✔✔Visual Schedules - ✔✔a set of pictures that communicate a series of activities or
steps of a specific schedule. Gives a sense of control, predictability and choice over
their schedule
✔✔Social skills group - ✔✔Group intervention approach with focus on interactive
activities that may address:
empathy development
relationships with others
nonverbal and verbal communication skills
social interactions
✔✔strategies to teach functional communication - ✔✔Dense schedule of reinforcement
Decreased use of verbal prompts
Extinction procedures for problem behavior
Dense FI1 schedule of reinforcement, gradually thinned- but careful not to thin too
quickly as this may evoke the problem behavior
✔✔functionally equivalent behavior - ✔✔Any appropriate behavior that serves similar
purposes to, and can be used to replace, an inappropriate one.
gets the same result as a problem behavior (escape, attention, access, sensory)
, ✔✔Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) - ✔✔a systematic method of assessment for
obtaining information about the purposes (functions) a problem behavior serves for a
person
✔✔token economy - ✔✔Accommodations and modifications made to the environment
to support student behavior
Eliminate the antecedent
Modify Content (reduce task difficulty, include interests, etc.)
Change how content is presented (behavioral momentum, length, opportunities for
choice)
Teach functional equivalent behavior
✔✔DRO - ✔✔Differential reinforcement of other behavior
✔✔DRA - ✔✔Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior
✔✔DRI - ✔✔differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior
✔✔duration - ✔✔(n.) the length of time that something continues or lasts
✔✔interval - ✔✔a space of time between events or states
✔✔natural reinforcement - ✔✔Involves a reinforcer that does not need to be learned,
such as food, water, and sex.
✔✔Reinforcers Assessment - ✔✔sometimes called a preference assessment, is a
strategy that can be used by classroom teachers to determine the items, activities, and
events that a student finds reinforcing. ... Whenever possible, the teacher should also
interview the student.
✔✔Non-Contingent Reinforcement - ✔✔reinforcing the child without any specific
demands in place. This causes you to be associated with reinforcement and become a
reinforcer.
✔✔Naturalistic teaching - ✔✔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
✔✔Prompt Fading - ✔✔When the correct or an appropriate response begins to occur,
gradually provide less prompts and an additional level of differential reinforcement
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Error Correction - ✔✔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.
✔✔Incidental teaching - ✔✔Structuring and sequencing learning opportunities so that
they occur within a natural setting and which is used to give the learner an opportunity
to practice a skill
✔✔Visual Schedules - ✔✔a set of pictures that communicate a series of activities or
steps of a specific schedule. Gives a sense of control, predictability and choice over
their schedule
✔✔Social skills group - ✔✔Group intervention approach with focus on interactive
activities that may address:
empathy development
relationships with others
nonverbal and verbal communication skills
social interactions
✔✔strategies to teach functional communication - ✔✔Dense schedule of reinforcement
Decreased use of verbal prompts
Extinction procedures for problem behavior
Dense FI1 schedule of reinforcement, gradually thinned- but careful not to thin too
quickly as this may evoke the problem behavior
✔✔functionally equivalent behavior - ✔✔Any appropriate behavior that serves similar
purposes to, and can be used to replace, an inappropriate one.
gets the same result as a problem behavior (escape, attention, access, sensory)
, ✔✔Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) - ✔✔a systematic method of assessment for
obtaining information about the purposes (functions) a problem behavior serves for a
person
✔✔token economy - ✔✔Accommodations and modifications made to the environment
to support student behavior
Eliminate the antecedent
Modify Content (reduce task difficulty, include interests, etc.)
Change how content is presented (behavioral momentum, length, opportunities for
choice)
Teach functional equivalent behavior
✔✔DRO - ✔✔Differential reinforcement of other behavior
✔✔DRA - ✔✔Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior
✔✔DRI - ✔✔differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior
✔✔duration - ✔✔(n.) the length of time that something continues or lasts
✔✔interval - ✔✔a space of time between events or states
✔✔natural reinforcement - ✔✔Involves a reinforcer that does not need to be learned,
such as food, water, and sex.
✔✔Reinforcers Assessment - ✔✔sometimes called a preference assessment, is a
strategy that can be used by classroom teachers to determine the items, activities, and
events that a student finds reinforcing. ... Whenever possible, the teacher should also
interview the student.
✔✔Non-Contingent Reinforcement - ✔✔reinforcing the child without any specific
demands in place. This causes you to be associated with reinforcement and become a
reinforcer.
✔✔Naturalistic teaching - ✔✔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
✔✔Prompt Fading - ✔✔When the correct or an appropriate response begins to occur,
gradually provide less prompts and an additional level of differential reinforcement
