Chaining/Prompting

Question 1

What is chaining?

Answer 1

Breaking down a task into smaller steps

Question 2

What is forward chaining?

Answer 2

You prompt the first step and then proceed to the next step once the first step is mastered.

Question 3

What is backward chaining?

Answer 3

You start with teaching the last step of the sequence of steps and move backwards to the second to last step once the final step is mastered and proceed till you get to the first step.

Question 4

What is total/whole chaining?

Answer 4

The entire skill is taught and support/accomodations are made for steps that are problematic.

Question 5

What is shaping?

Answer 5

Prompt approximations

Question 6

What is prompting?

Answer 6

Instructions, gestures, demonstrations, touches, or other things that we arrange or do to increase the likelihood that children will make correct responses.

Question 7

What is discrimination training?

Answer 7

Teaching an individual to differentiate between two or more stimuli based on a single characteristic (EX: identify the number 4 when presented with four number flashcards)

Question 8

What is stimulus control transfer?

Answer 8

Transfer the control from one stimulus to another. When behavior initially evoked (controlled) by one SD comes under control of a different SD.