BCAT Skill Acquisition Treatment 3

Question 1

Errorless learning is best described as:

Accepted Answer

Providing prompts that prevent errors before they occur

Answer

Errorless learning involves delivering prompts proactively to prevent incorrect responses, reducing frustration and increasing success.

Question 2

A transfer trial is used to:

Accepted Answer

Shift stimulus control from a prompt to the natural discriminative stimulus

Answer

Transfer trials follow a prompted trial and present the same SD without the prompt, transferring control to the natural cue.

Question 3

Natural Environment Teaching (NET) differs from Discrete Trial Training (DTT) primarily because NET:

Accepted Answer

Embeds teaching within naturally occurring activities and the learner's motivation

Answer

NET capitalizes on the learner's natural motivation and daily activities to provide embedded teaching opportunities in context.

Question 4

During incidental teaching, the technician waits for the learner to initiate interest in something, then requires a more elaborate response before providing access. This technique primarily targets:

Accepted Answer

Spontaneous language and communication

Answer

Incidental teaching leverages child-initiated interactions to build spontaneous language and functional communication.

Question 5

Shaping involves reinforcing:

Accepted Answer

Successive approximations that increasingly resemble the target behavior

Answer

Shaping reinforces closer and closer approximations to the goal behavior, gradually building the full target response.

(BCAT) Board Certified Autism Technician Practice Test

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BCAT Skill Acquisition Treatment 3