Skill Acquisition

Question 1

Skill Acquisition Plan

Answer 1

a detailed description of what and how to teach your client

Question 2

Program Guide

Answer 2

1. Identifying Information
2. Program Title
3. Target Skill/Operational Definition
4. Data Collection Strategies
5. Teaching Procedures
6. Date and Staff Initials

Question 3

Conditioned Reinforcement

Answer 3

function as reinforcers due to your past learning; over time you learned to love these things

Question 4

Unconditioned Reinforcement

Answer 4

function as reinforcers due to heredity/evolution

they do not require any learning history to become reinforcers (things you inherently love)

Question 5

Continuous Reinforcement

Answer 5

providing a preferred consequence each time the behavior occurs

Question 6

Intermittent Reinforcement

Answer 6

providing a preferred consequence every Nth number of occurrences of the desired behavior to ensure that the desired behavior will continue to occur in more natural situations without reinforcement

Question 7

Discrete Trial Training

Answer 7

• a type of teaching procedure used for discrete skills (a clear beginning and end
• ABC model
• repeated practice
• several trials for consecutive learning opportunities

Question 8

Naturalistic Teaching Procedures

Answer 8

• a type of teaching procedure used for skills that do not necessarily have a clear beginning and end
• effective for skills that are supposed to “naturally” occur at anytime
• RBT does not typically provide direct instruction

Question 9

Task Analysis

Answer 9

a type of teaching procedure used for skills that have multiple steps

Question 10

Discrimination Training

Answer 10

establishes relations between things (X is this, not that)

only provide reinforcement when client touches the correct stimulus

Question 11

Stimulus Control

Answer 11

when an individual behaves in one way in the presence of a given stimulus and another way in its absence

Question 12

Stimulus Fading

Answer 12

highlighting a physical dimension of a stimulus and then gradually fading it

ex. learning to draw an object beginning with solid lines and gradually fading the lines till you can independently draw the object

Question 13

Prompt

Answer 13

Supplementary antecedent stimulus used to occasion a correct response in the presence of an SD

Question 14

Types of Prompts

Answer 14

1. Verbal Instructions
2. Modeling
3. Physical Guidance