ABAT Generalization and Maintenance Strategies Flashcards

Which of the following strategies involves teaching in the real-world environment rather than only at a desk?

Answer: Naturalistic or incidental teaching

Naturalistic or incidental teaching embeds skill instruction into everyday routines and environments, which directly promotes generalization and maintenance.

Booster sessions are used in ABA primarily to:

Answer: Re-strengthen skills showing maintenance failure

Booster sessions provide brief, targeted retraining for skills that have declined during maintenance probes, restoring them to mastery levels.

When probing for generalization, the technician should:

Answer: Present novel stimuli without providing reinforcement or prompts for correct responses

Generalization probes use novel, untrained stimuli presented without prompts or differential reinforcement to measure true transfer of the skill.

Teaching a learner to request items from multiple people (e.g., parent, teacher, sibling) is an example of programming generalization across:

Answer: People

Ensuring a skill is performed with multiple individuals addresses generalization across people, which is a key dimension of generalization in ABA.

A 'generalization map' or 'universe of application' helps the ABAT by:

Answer: Defining all the conditions under which the target behavior should eventually occur

A generalization map outlines the full range of people, settings, stimuli, and responses within which the target skill should occur, guiding systematic generalization programming.

Which of the following best ensures a skill will maintain after intervention ends?

Answer: Ensuring the skill contacts reinforcement in the natural environment

Skills that contact naturally occurring reinforcement in the learner's everyday environment are most likely to be maintained over time without continued formal intervention.