G04 Use Stimulus & Response Prompts & Fading Part 5

Question 1

The best option for teaching fine discriminations between subtly different stimuli using an errorless approach would be to

Answer 1

Highlight the critical features of the stimuli to be discriminated

Question 2

A within stimulus prompt is a prompt that

Answer 2

Highlights the critical features of the stimuli to be discriminated by modifying non-critical features.
Emphasizes the relevant features of the stimulus.

Question 3

A teacher working… this format helps minimize errors by using

Answer 3

A response delay

Question 4

When a student commits errors in training, before the intended discrimination can be learned, error responses must

Answer 4

Undergo extinction followed by use of more intrusive prompts and error correction, if appropriate

Question 5

Errorless learning methods have been criticized on the point that “error free learning” may leave a student with little experience in getting it wrong, and thus contribute to a low tolerance for frustration. This is not a valid argument because

Answer 5

All the above:
Behavior analyst can design separate programs to teach persistence in the face of failure if coping with frustration is a problem for their clients.
Consequences for incorrect responses should not be designed to make errors aversive even when errorless learning procedures are not used.

Question 6

A disadvantage of errorless learning programs is that

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Programming stimuli for errorless learning is time and labor intensive.

Question 7

Once an error is committed by a learner in training, it may

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Become part of a response chain that eventually leads to reinforcement

Question 8

An extra stimulus prompt is a prompt that

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Highlights the correct comparison stimulus without altering its features

Question 9

Errorless learning is characterized by which of the following prompting procedures?

Answer 9

All the above:
Most to least prompting
Delayed prompting

Question 10

Errorless learning is characterized by which of the following prompting procedures?

Answer 10

All the above:
Most to least prompting
Delayed prompting
Stimulus fading

Question 11

In errorless learning, as few as one student error may function as

Answer 11

A prompt to the teacher to modify his teaching strategy

Question 12

For students who have already learned identity matching, a teacher presents match to sample trials as shown below. Here the teacher says “Point to the number of spades.” The student will likely learn to point to

Answer 12

3 regardless of the number of spades

Question 13

In errorless learning procedures, prompts are used

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All the above:
In a delayed or altered format to shift stimulus control to the intended Sd.
Until the learner’s response is controlled by the intended Sd.
To produce the desired response on each trial.

Question 14

Unlike traditional trial and error teaching methods, errorless learning is accomplished when

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Behavioral performances are taught using methods designed to prevent or minimize errors by the learner

Question 15

A student is asked to name the capital of Alaska… the best explanation for this is that

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The student committed the same error in training and it was inadvertently reinforced

Question 16

Most to least prompting procedures fewer errors if

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Responding is allowed to stabilize at the current level of prompt fading

Question 17

Errors that occur in training are usually produced by

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The training procedures

Question 18

A teenager with developmental disabilities… how should the teacher handle this error if her aim is to teach the skill errorlessly?

Answer 18

The teacher praises the boy’s brushing, says “let’s do it again”, returns the toothbrush to the cup and points to the toothbrush as the boy is about to reach for the toothbrush.

Question 19

Students errors are

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Disruptive to learning because once an error has been committed it is more likely to happen again

Question 20

Performances that are learned using procedures that allow for learners to commit errors during training are sometimes characterized by

Answer 20

All the above:
Emotional responses to the Sd as an aversive stimulus.
Occasional bouts of responding to the Sd.
Increased responding to the Sd as a contrast effect from responding to the Sd

Question 21

When errors occur in training, they are

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Likely to co-occur with the correct response following training.