GS Probing Flashcards
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Probing Skills
Define
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A test to determine how a child responds to something
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A test to determine how a child responds to something
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Probing Skills
Define
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Probing skills used in…
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Assessments Determine prompt level for programs Determine appropriate behavioral interventions for BSP Test for generalization Test for maintenance
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Rationale for probing
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Should be used to answer…
- Does the skill currently exist already?
- Least amount of prompting required for the response to occur?
- What effect does a particular intervention have on a behavior?
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Best Practices
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- closest naturalistic as possible
- probes should not be close together
- any reinforcement or ec should be natural and not contrived
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- closest naturalistic as possible
- probes should not be close together
- any reinforcement or ec should be natural and not contrived
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Best Practices (type of probing)
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Probing Under Extinction
AKA “Cold probe”
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- Specifically do not provide reinforcement or ec
- Most common probing for assessment
- Reinforcement can be provided on a VI or FI schedule for general participation
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- Specifically do not provide reinforcement or ec
- Most common probing for assessment
- Reinforcement can be provided on a VI or FI schedule for general participation
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Probing Under Extinction
AKA “Cold probe”
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Probing Outside of Assessment
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Prior to introduction of instruction
- Test for concept formation/generativity (ability to generalize across response class)
- Determine current performance to select prompts
- For maintenance
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Prior to introduction of instruction
- Test for concept formation/generativity (ability to generalize across response class)
- Determine current performance to select prompts
- For maintenance
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Probing Outside of Assessment
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Probes Prior to Instruction
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- Identify where current skill set is
- Least to most prompting
- Look for concept formation/generativity
- Generalize across response class
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- Identify where current skill set is
- Least to most prompting
- Look for concept formation/generativity
- Generalize across response class
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Probes Prior to Instruction
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Probing Throughout Instruction
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- Kid makes progress on errorless targets that prompt steps may be skipped
- Information may be gleaned from probing
- Makes instruction more effective by only teaching at levels required
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- Kid makes progress on errorless targets that prompt steps may be skipped
- Information may be gleaned from probing
- Makes instruction more effective by only teaching at levels required
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Probing Throughout Instruction
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First Trial Probes
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- During acquisition programs
- RBTs only collect data on the first trial run
- Reinforcement and ec are provided according to the prescribed program
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- During acquisition programs
- RBTs only collect data on the first trial run
- Reinforcement and ec are provided according to the prescribed program
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First Trial Probes
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Pros of First Trial Probes
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- Lower response effort for RBTs
- Faster mastery
- Gives info on skill retention between days
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Cons of First Trial Probes
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- Less precise measurement
- First instance could get it, rest of them miss, so really they don’t have it mastered, but the data says 100%
- Lower maintenance
- Obscures other important trends
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Maintenance Probes
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- Skills that do not get reinforcement regularly are at risk for being extinguished
- Lower-level skills that are required for a higher-level skills are less likely to be extinguished
- Ensuring that skills are maintained is integral to ensuring that ABA is valid and useful for patient and their family
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- Skills that do not get reinforcement regularly are at risk for being extinguished
- Lower-level skills that are required for a higher-level skills are less likely to be extinguished
- Ensuring that skills are maintained is integral to ensuring that ABA is valid and useful for patient and their family
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Maintenance Probes
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Assessment Probes
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Multiple probe design
- Variation of multiple baseline design
- Measuring intermittent data during baseline
- Saves time and effort to record
- Data should be collected at the right times to establish trends and patterns in the data
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Multiple probe design
- Variation of multiple baseline design
- Measuring intermittent data during baseline
- Saves time and effort to record
- Data should be collected at the right times to establish trends and patterns in the data
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Assessment Probes
