Skill Acquisition Flashcards
Prompt fading
A type of teaching in which prompts are systematically faded into the learner is able to emit the target response without assistance.
Shaping Procedure
Successive approximations of a behavior are differentially reinforced while less preferred behavior contacts lesser or no reinforcement (extinction) as behavior is gradually changed in the desired direction.
Incidental Teaching
The therapist waits for the child to initiate a response with an item of interest a time delay and prompting are used to evoke a request (mand)questions are asked to evoke more elaborate language regarding the objects of interest.
Essential Components of a Skill Acquisition Plan
1) target behavior 2) materials / setting 3) prompting strategies 4) consequences 5) mastery criteria 6) planning for generalization & maintenance
Discrete Trial Training (DTT)
Adult led teaching method with five distinct parts, very exactly structured, has precise, contingency design, is often top multiple times with short gaps between opportunities in a contrived setting.
Token Economy
System where in arbitrary stimulus is conditioned to function as reinforcer these stimuli are earned by engaging in specific behaviors, and our periodically exchanged for back up reinforcers from the store.
Stimulus fading
A type of teaching in which some aspect of the teaching stimulus is modified in a systematic fashion to evoke a target response
Task analyzed chaining procedures
A behavior is broken down into easy steps, with each step’s completion serving as the reinforcer for the previous step and SD for the next step.
Pivotal Response training
targets critical areas that improve many different individual responses, emphasizes child’s choice, takes place in the natural environment, emphasizes heavily the family’s involvement, and multiple cues are used to evoke behavior.
