Chapter 9 Chapter 9 True False Pullout Settings Such Resource Rooms

Chapter 9: Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Rating Scales are an assessment of

a. Social Competence

b. Social Skills

2. Structured observation in an environment set up to facilitate assessment of a specific social behavior.

a. Social Competence

b. Social Skills

3. This strategy facilitates memory recall or behavioral performance

a. Positive Reinforcement

b. Self-monitoring

c. Priming

d. Prompting

4. This strategy offers the greatest opportunity for an individual with ASD to practice generalization.

a. Positive Reinforcement

b. Self-monitoring

c. Priming

d. Prompting

5. The inability to generalize a skill or behavior is a result of

a. Limited Opportunities to Respond

b. The parents or home life

c. Negative reinforcement

d. Too much stimulus control

6. This training targets responsivity to multiple cues, initiation, motivation, and self–management.

a. SPS

b. PRT

c. Social Scripting

d. VSM

Matching

1. Match the following intervention / modification with it’s descriptor as outlined by McConnell (2002)

a. Environmental Modifications

b. Child specific Interventions

c. Collateral Interventions

d. Peer-mediated Interventions

Training non-disabled peers to direct and respond to social

behaviors of individuals with ASD

Modifications in physical spaces and social settings

Promotion of social interactions by delivering training in related

skills such as play behaviors

Direct instruction of social behaviors, such as initiating and

responding

True/False

1. TRUE or FALSE. Social skills are a learned behavior

2. TRUE or FALSE. Problem behaviors are never socially mediated; rather they identify an internal behavior

issue of an individual with ASD.

3. TRUE or FALSE. Researchers recommend that social skills training be conducted with less intensity.

4. TRUE or FALSE. Pullout settings such as resource rooms are inadequate for teaching social skills.

Short Answer/Essay

Short Answer.

1. Define Social Skills.

2. Define Social Competence.

3. List common social skills deficits among individuals with ASD.

4. Define Social Cognition.

5. Define Social Validity

Essay.

1. List and describe effective social skills interventions.