Test Prep

Question 1

What is ABA?

Answer 1

Scientific approach to understanding behavior and how the environment affects it.

Also focuses on the principles that explain how learning takes place

Question 2

What are the operational definitions uses in ABA?

Answer 2

TITLE
TYPOGRAPHY
OCCURRENCE MEASURE
EPISODIC SEVERITY

Question 3

What is the title?
Typography?
Occurrence measure?
Episodic severity?

Answer 3

• what we call a bx
• the observable bx, what is seen, smelled, touched, heard or the aftermath
• how the bx is measured over time
• how we measure the severity of the bx

Question 4

What are the different ways we can measure the occurrence of a behavior?

Answer 4

• frequency/rate
• % of opportunity: occurs only when other events take place
• % of intervals

Question 5

How can we measure the intensity of a Bx?

Answer 5

• assign levels
• duration
• restrictive procedures

Question 6

Why do we want to measure the intensity of a behavior?

Answer 6

To show that intervention is actually improving the quality of everyone’s life

Question 7

What are some restrictive procedures?

Answer 7

seclusion, isolation, time out, restraint, PRN meds

Question 8

What is the Antecedent?

Answer 8

things that happen before the Bx

Question 9

What is the Behavior?

Answer 9

what a person does that is observable and measurable

Question 10

What is the consequence?

Answer 10

what occurs after the behavior

Question 11

What are some antecedents? or fast triggers

Answer 11

-loud noise
routine change
saying no
demand placed
transition

Question 12

What are some setting events? or slow triggers

Answer 12

death in family
health
moving homes
med change
weather
break up

Question 13

What is antecedent control?

Answer 13

removes the fast triggers for challenging bx

increases triggers for positive bx

Question 14

What are some types of consequences?

Answer 14

punishment
reinforcement
reactive strategies

Question 15

What affect does reinforcement have on bx?

Answer 15

increases the likelihood that the bx will happen again

Question 16

What affect does punishment have on bx?

Answer 16

decreases the likelihood that bx will happen again

Question 17

What are reactive strategies?

Answer 17

de-escalate the situation but do not change the bx over time

Question 18

What are functions of Bx?

Answer 18

Sensory
Escape
Attention
Tangible

Question 19

What are other reasons for Bx?

Answer 19

express emotion/relieve stress

feedback loop

Question 20

What are some ways to collect data?

Answer 20

ABC data- whole event
Duration-how long
Frequency/rate-how often over time
Intervals-happened during time period
Scatterplot- time related patterns
Severity-how intense each episode was

Question 21

Why do we use visual feedback?

Answer 21

motivates client to continue doing well
helps us to show progress
better at interpreting lines vs numbers

Question 22

Why do we do reliability checks?

Answer 22

to make sure we can trust our data

Question 23

What are some PRO ACTIVE strategies?

Answer 23

environmental supports
preventative strategies
replacement skills teaching

Question 24

What are some types of environmental supports?

Answer 24

makes the environment a good match for the client
physical
interpersonal
programmatic

Question 25

Give example of physical environmental supports.

Answer 25

objects/ppl/ sensory input | furniture arrangement, positioning of ppl, temperature

Question 26

Give an example of interpersonal environmental supports.

Answer 26

social opportunities, interactions | tone of voice/opportunities to interact with peers

Question 27

Give an example of programmatic environmental supports.

Answer 27

how the program is run/philosophy | goals/density of preferred events

Question 28

What are some preventative strategies?

Answer 28

antecedent control | reinforcement schedules- how we make preferred items available

Question 29

What are types of reinforcement schedules?

Answer 29

``` Free Access DRO - on set time with no target bx DRA - for appropriate bx DRI - when they perform appropriate bx instead of target bx Continuous - 1:1 ratio Fixed interval - paycheck Fixed ratio - coke machine Variable interval - cannot predict but can be averaged Variable ratio - slot machine ```

Question 30

What are some replacement skills that can be taught?

Answer 30

General skills -toileting Fun skills- dvd player Functional equivalent skills - serve same fxn Functionally related skills - don't serve same fxn but are relevant Coping/Tolerance skills -progressive relaxation

Question 31

What are some types of reactive strategies?

Answer 31

``` give space program reminders offer break offer preferred activity active listening interposition stimulus change ```

Question 32

What are the values of ABA training?

Answer 32

Safe - don't create a victim/ no one gets hurt Effective - do what we say we are doing; progress/data/ goals/ reliability checks Enjoyable - everyone has fun/quality of life is improved