Test #3

Question 1

What is Prompting?

Answer 1

Strategy to enhance/hasten discrimination training

Question 2

What is a prompt?

Answer 2

Stimuli that increase the likelihood of making a correct behavior in the presence of the SD

Question 3

Whats the purpose of Prompt Fading?

Answer 3

Start with an effective prompt & gradually eliminate the prompt To learn the new behaior

Question 4

What is a Response Prompt

Answer 4

Verbal, Gestural, Model, Physical

Question 5

What is a stimulus Prompt

Answer 5

Some change in a stimulus, or the addition or removal of a stimulus, to make a correct behavior more likely

Question 6

Extra stimulus prompt

Answer 6

Addition of stimuli to enhance discrimination

Examples: pictures, line drawings, written instructions; “X” on right hand; colored soap; red dye on teeth

Question 7

Within Stimulus Prompt

Answer 7

alteration to the SD or S (e.g., errorless discrimination method)

Example: Exaggerate relevant feature:

Question 8

Errorless Discrimination Training

Answer 8

S modified to reduce errors; this “stimulus prompt” is gradually faded to transfer control; Speeds up learning; Minimizes undesirable effects of extinction