Unit 4

Question 1

A procedure consisting of instructions, modeling, behavioral rehearsal, and feedback that is used to teach new behaviors or skills.

Answer 1

Behavioral skills training procedures

Question 2

Any operant whose response rate is controlled by a given opportunity to complete the response.

Answer 2

Discrete trial

Question 3

A type of correction technique to reduce the frequency of errors.

Answer 3

Error correction

Question 4

Instructional methods specifically designed to prevent or substantially minimize any learner errors are used to teach particular discriminations.

Answer 4

Errorless teaching

Question 5

A type of stimulus prompt in which a stimulus is added to help a person make a correct discrimination.

Answer 5

Extra stimulus prompt

Question 6

A procedure for transferring stimulus control in which features of an antecedent stimulus (controlling a behavior) are gradually changed to a new stimulus while maintaining the current behavior.

Answer 6

Fading

Question 7

Stimuli that share common physical forms or structures or common relative relationships.

Answer 7

Feature stimulus class

Question 8

A physical movement or gesture of another person that leads to the correct behavior in the presence of the discriminative stimulus.

Answer 8

Gestural prompt

Question 9

A prompting strategy used with the total task presentation procedure in which full hand-over-hand assistance as a prompt for the learner is provided to complete the behavior.

Answer 9

Graduated guidance

Question 10

Training that occurs in the natural environment after an in situ assessment in which the child fails to use the skills.

Answer 10

In situ training

Question 11

The environment where instruction occurs; includes all aspects of the environment, planned and unplanned, that may influence the learner’s acquisition and generalization of the target behavior.

Answer 11

Instructional setting

Question 12

A group of responses of varying typography, all of which produce the same effect on the environment.

Answer 12

Response class

Question 13

The amount of force, exertion, or time involved in executing a response.

Answer 13

Response effort

Question 14

A type of prompt in which the trainer engages in a behavior to induce the client to engage in the target behavior in the presence of the discriminative stimulus.

Answer 14

Response prompt

Question 15

Progressive (and ultimately total) loss of effectiveness of a reinforcer.

Answer 15

Satiation

Question 16

A situation in which the frequency, latency, duration, or amplitude of a behavior is altered by the presence or absence of an antecedent stimulus.

Answer 16

Stimulus control

Question 17

The emergence of accurate responding to untrained and nonreinforced stimulus-stimulus relations following the reinforcement of responses to some stimulus-stimulus relations.

Answer 17

Stimulus equivalence

Question 18

Some change in an antecedent stimulus or the addition or removal of an antecedent stimulus, with the goal of making a correct response more likely.

Answer 18

Stimulus prompts