ABAT Generalization and Maintenance Strategies Flashcards
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Generalization in ABA refers to:
Answer: A behavior occurring across untrained stimuli, settings, or people
Generalization occurs when a trained behavior transfers to new people, settings, or stimuli beyond those present during original training.
Which strategy BEST promotes generalization across settings?
Answer: Training in multiple natural settings from the start
Training across multiple natural settings from the outset promotes stimulus generalization by broadening the range of contexts associated with the target behavior.
'Maintenance' in ABA is best defined as:
Answer: Continued performance of a skill after the formal training phase ends
Maintenance refers to the durability of a behavior over time after systematic reinforcement or intervention has been reduced or eliminated.
Teaching with 'sufficient exemplars' promotes generalization by:
Answer: Exposing the learner to a varied sample of the stimulus class
Using sufficient and varied exemplars ensures the learner contacts enough of the stimulus class to generalize to untrained members of that class.
What is 'response maintenance failure'?
Answer: A skill that was mastered but no longer occurs consistently after training ends
Response maintenance failure occurs when a previously mastered skill deteriorates or disappears once the formal intervention or dense reinforcement is removed.
Programming 'common stimuli' during training means:
Answer: Including in the training environment stimuli that are also present in the generalization setting
Including stimuli that are common to both the training and generalization environments increases the likelihood that the behavior will transfer to natural settings.