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Procedures and Intervention Flashcards

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  1. Which prompting hierarchy moves from most intrusive to least intrusive?

    Answer: Physical → Model → Gestural → Verbal

    The most-to-least hierarchy begins with physical guidance and systematically fades to less intrusive prompts like verbal cues.

  2. Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO) involves reinforcing:

    Answer: The absence of the target behavior during a set interval

    DRO delivers reinforcement when the target behavior has not occurred during a specified time interval.

  3. When using a progressive time-delay prompting procedure, which variable is systematically changed across trials?

    Answer: The interval between the SD and the prompt

    Progressive time delay gradually increases the wait interval between the discriminative stimulus and the prompt to allow independent responding.

  4. Which statement best describes the ABA procedure of extinction?

    Answer: Withholding the reinforcement that previously maintained the target behavior

    Extinction involves no longer providing the reinforcer that was maintaining the behavior, causing it to decrease over time.

  5. A practitioner uses DRI for a student who hits others. Which behavior is the most appropriate response to reinforce?

    Answer: Keeping hands in lap

    Keeping hands in lap is physically incompatible with hitting, making it the correct target for DRI.

  6. Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates (DRL) is most appropriate when the intervention goal is to:

    Answer: Reduce but not fully eliminate the target behavior

    DRL is chosen when a behavior is acceptable at low levels but problematic at high rates, such as talking in class.

  7. What is an 'extinction burst' in the context of implementing extinction?

    Answer: A temporary increase in target behavior rate or intensity when extinction is first applied

    An extinction burst is a temporary increase in the frequency, duration, or intensity of behavior that commonly occurs at the start of an extinction procedure.