Preference Assessments

Question 1

Free Operant

Answer 1

The child is given unrestricted access to a variety of toys and activities. The longer a child engages with an item, the stronger the inference is that the item is preferred.

Question 2

Single Stimulus

Answer 2

Trial-based method, also called successive choice. A single item is presented to a child and the reaction is recorded.

Question 3

Paired Stimulus

Answer 3

Also called forced-choice. Each stimulus is matched randomly with another item in the set. Data shows how many times an item was chosen and stimuli are ranked high, medium, and low preferences

Question 4

Multiple stimuli without replacement

Answer 4

All stimuli are presented simultaneously, the selected item is removed from the array, the placement of items is rearranged and the next trial begins with a reduced number of items.

Question 5

Multiple stimuli with replacement

Answer 5

All stimuli are presented simultaneously, the item selected remains int eh array and the items that were not selected are replaced with new stimuli