- Applied Behavior Analysis Prompting and Fading Procedures Questions and Answers Flashcards

What distinguishes a 'model prompt' from a 'verbal prompt'?

Answer: A model prompt demonstrates the behavior; a verbal prompt provides spoken instructions or cues

A model prompt shows the learner the target response through demonstration, while a verbal prompt provides spoken information (directions, labels, or questions).

In progressive time delay, how does the delay interval change across sessions or trials?

Answer: It increases incrementally (e.g., 0s → 2s → 4s → 6s)

Progressive time delay gradually increases the wait time between the SD and the prompt in small steps, giving the learner increasing opportunity to respond independently.

A behavior analyst wants to teach a child to identify the letter 'B' from distractors. She initially prints 'B' in red while distractors are gray, then gradually shifts the color to gray over trials. This is an example of:

Answer: Stimulus fading via a within-stimulus prompt

Changing a color dimension of the target stimulus across trials until it matches the distractor describes stimulus fading using a within-stimulus (color) prompt.

Which data pattern would most strongly support the conclusion that prompt fading is proceeding correctly?

Answer: Correct independent responses increase as prompt level decreases

Successful fading is evidenced by more correct unprompted responses as the level or intensity of prompts is systematically reduced.

An instructor reinforces a correct response only when it occurs before the prompt is delivered during a time delay procedure. This is called a:

Answer: Unprompted correct response (anticipation response)

When the learner responds correctly within the delay interval before the prompt is given, this is an unprompted (or anticipation) correct response, which indicates emerging independence.

Which statement best describes the goal of all prompting procedures in ABA?

Answer: To transfer stimulus control from prompts to natural environmental cues

The ultimate purpose of prompting is to establish responding under the control of naturally occurring antecedents rather than trainer-delivered cues.

A positional prompt is most at risk for which of the following problems?

Answer: The learner learning to select the stimulus based on its location rather than its identity

If the correct stimulus is always placed in the same position (e.g., top-left), the learner may develop position-based rather than identity-based stimulus control.