Study Guide for Final

Question 1

PECS Phase I

Answer 1

HOW to communicate

• Approach people to initiate communication
• Teach 3-step sequence
  - Pick up, reach, release
• One picture at a time

Question 2

PECS Phase II

Answer 2

Increasing spontaneity and range

• Adult moves away from student- Distance teaching
• Picture book- still single, communication moved further from student
• Persistence taught
• Vary people/activities/locations/reinforcers involved
• Key for both phase 1 and 2, communicative partner doesn’t prompt

Question 3

PECS Phase IIIA

Answer 3

Simple Discrimination (Desired/undesired)

• Reinforce at first indication of choice
• 4 step error correction procedure
  
  • Model/show -Practice -Switch -Repeat
• Alternative Strategies
  
  • Blank distracter
  • Large vs small
  • Bigger pictures or big pictures far apart

Question 4

PECS Phase IIIB

Answer 4

Conditional Discrimination
-Discriminating between equally reinforcing items
-Correspondence checks
-show both items, have student exchange, then give
item to kid

Question 5

PECS Phase IV

Answer 5

Building Sentences

• “I want” and student hands whole sentence to adults
• Teach attributes
• Receptive mastery IS NOT prerequisite

Question 6

PECS Phase V

Answer 6

Answering “What do you want?”

• Leads to commenting
• Maintain spontaneity

Question 7

PECS Phase VI

Answer 7

Commenting

• Answering “comment” questions
• Discriminate between “What do you see?” and “What do you want?”
• Spontaneous commenting and requesting

Question 8

Top Elements

Answer 8

Generalization
Effective Lessons
Specific Teaching Strategies
Minimizing and Correcting Errors
Data Collections

Question 9

Count per minute

Answer 9

Found on upper left side of chart

Question 10

Behaviors per session

Answer 10

Multiply count per minute by number of minutes in session (found on bottom right of chart shown by - on the chart)

Question 11

Scales

Answer 11

Thin, vertical lines- weeks
Thick, vertical lines- months
Top axis- Months
Bottom axis- Weeks
Slopes same as daily chart

Question 12

Scales

Answer 12

Thin, vertical lines- weeks
Thick, vertical lines- months
Top axis- Months
Bottom axis- Weeks
Slopes same as daily chart

Question 13

Song for chart

Answer 13

Big if on left
Starts at 1
Tells you what to count by and where to count from

Question 14

Song for chart

Answer 14

The numbers
that start with
a ONE from
low to high
tell you what
to COUNT
FROM and
what to
COUNT BY

Question 15

6 cycle chart

Answer 15

1 in 1,000 min
1 in 100 min
1 in 10 min
10 in 1 min
100 in 1 min
1,000 in 1 min

Question 16

Latency

Answer 16

Indicated with forward slash

Question 17

Duration

Answer 17

Indicated with back slash

Question 18

Move down the vertical axis

Answer 18

Duration and latency will increase (time based)

Question 19

Autoclitic

Answer 19

Behavior which is based upon or depends upon other verbal behavior

Question 20

Operants

Answer 20

Behaviors that are defined by their impact on the environment

Question 21

Respondants

Answer 21

Antecedents and the behaviors they trigger

Question 22

Calculating complete daily record

Answer 22

1) Counting time floor
2) Frequency correct
3) Frequency incorrect
Find where Day Line and Frequency Line intersect
Chart at intersection

Question 23

Counting Time Floor (less than 1 min)

Answer 23

1/fraction of a minute
OR
60/# of seconds

Question 24

Counting Time Floor

Answer 24

1/minutes spent recording

Question 25

Charting Frequencies

Answer 25

Count/# of minutes spent recording
OR
count x counting time floor

Question 26

Charting Frequencies (less than a minute)

Answer 26

Count/fraction of a minute
OR
count x counting floor

Question 27

Zero on chart

Answer 27

Zero doesn’t exist

Indicate with data point x or ? below counting time floor