ABA Skill Acquisition and Teaching Procedures 2

Question 1

Shaping involves reinforcing:

Accepted Answer

Successive approximations toward the target behavior

Answer

Shaping reinforces responses that progressively resemble the target behavior, gradually raising the criterion until the final behavior is achieved.

Question 2

Which teaching arrangement uses naturally occurring opportunities distributed throughout the day rather than massed trials?

Accepted Answer

Naturalistic teaching (incidental teaching)

Answer

Naturalistic or incidental teaching embeds learning trials within the child's natural environment and daily routines rather than structured table-top sessions.

Question 3

What is the main difference between massed practice and distributed practice?

Accepted Answer

Massed practice runs many trials back-to-back; distributed practice spaces trials across time

Answer

Massed practice presents many consecutive trials for one skill, while distributed practice intersperses trials with other activities or skills over time.

Question 4

A token economy uses tokens as:

Accepted Answer

Conditioned generalized reinforcers exchangeable for backup reinforcers

Answer

Tokens are conditioned generalized reinforcers that acquire value through pairing with multiple backup reinforcers and can be exchanged for those reinforcers.

Question 5

Stimulus control refers to:

Accepted Answer

A behavior occurring more frequently in the presence of a specific antecedent stimulus

Answer

Stimulus control exists when a behavior reliably occurs in the presence of a discriminative stimulus (SD) and not in its absence.

ABA - Applied Behavior Analysis Practice Test

ABA - Applied Behavior Analysis Practice Test

ABA Skill Acquisition and Teaching Procedures 2