Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Describe Each The Verbal Operant s And Provide

Chapter 6: Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Pavlov’s 1927 dog experiment is an example of?

A. Classical Conditioning

B. Operant Conditioning

2. Another term for discriminative stimulus is?

A. Motivator

B. Antecedent

C. Consequence

D. Behavior

3. During DTT instruction, this prevents the student from being confused during multiple trial sessions?

A. Prompting

B. Clearing the field

C. Thinning

D. Scaffolding

4. This instruction is often used to increase a student’s vocabulary.

A. Mand

B. Tact

C. Echoic

D. Intraverbal

5. This strategy is used when the student attempts to gain access to a desired item or activity and the teacher

prevents access contingent on a specific requesting behavior.

A. Small portions

B. Sabotage

C. Missing pieces

D. Blocking

6. Research suggests that 1:1 intervention at less than ___ hours per week is not likely to result in many

developmental gains.

A. 15

B. 40

C. 35

D. 25

7. ABA therapy for children with autism should be provided for at least ____ years to produce optimal

outcomes.

A. 3

B. 5

C. 1

D. 2

Matching

1. Match the following explanations of schedule planning

a. Shaping

b. Chaining

c. Modeling

Over time, closer approximations of the behavior are required

before reinforcement is provided.

The process of demonstrating a behavior for a student to imitate.

The instructional aspect is that students are taught to put multiple

behaviors together in succession.

True/False

1. TRUE or FALSE. The guiding principle of ABA is that all behavior is learned.

2. TRUE or FALSE. ABA was developed to exclusively address those diagnosed with ASD.

3. TRUE or FALSE. If a student is not motivated to learn, learning is not likely to occur.

4. TRUE or FALSE. Discrimination Training allows for the basic building blocks of language comprehension

to be taught.

5. TRUE or FALSE. The more families understand and are able to carry out various ABA strategies within

the context of their daily routines, the more opportunities children have for learning specific skills.

Short Answer/Essay

Short Answer.

1. Define Applied Behavior Analysis.

2. List the Principles of Behavior

3. What is meant by the phrase, “three–term contingency”?

4. Provide an example of the three-term contingency.

5. Define DTT.

6. What are the steps of DTT?

7. Define Instructional Control.

8. Define Errorless Learning.

9. List the hierarchy of prompts from most to least independence.

10. List four prompting procedures.

11. List the steps in an error correction procedure.

Essay.

1. Compare and contrast ABA and DTT.

2. Discuss the research on the effectiveness of ABA and issues involving its use in a public school setting.

3. Describe each of the verbal operants and provide an example of each.

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