Behavior Intervention and Positive Behavior Support Flashcards

Which behavior management strategy involves ignoring a minor problem behavior to reduce its frequency by withholding reinforcement?

Answer: Extinction

Extinction involves withholding the reinforcer that has been maintaining a behavior, leading to a gradual decrease in the behavior over time.

A student with emotional/behavioral disorder frequently disrupts class when given independent work. An FBA reveals the behavior is escape-motivated. Which intervention is MOST function-matched?

Answer: Teaching the student to request a break using an appropriate communication strategy

Since the behavior functions to escape work, teaching an appropriate escape request (asking for a break) meets the same need through an acceptable behavior.

Which of the following is an example of an 'antecedent intervention' in a behavior support plan?

Answer: Removing distracting materials from the student's desk before instruction begins

Removing distractions before instruction changes the antecedent conditions, reducing the likelihood that the challenging behavior will be triggered.

Under IDEA, when must a school conduct a Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)?

Answer: When a student with a disability faces a disciplinary change of placement of more than 10 school days

IDEA requires an FBA when a student with a disability faces a disciplinary change of placement exceeding 10 school days, to inform the development of a BIP.

A teacher uses 'differential reinforcement of alternative behavior' (DRA). What does this involve?

Answer: Reinforcing a specific alternative behavior that is incompatible with or replaces the problem behavior

DRA involves reinforcing a specific, appropriate alternative behavior that can replace the problem behavior, ideally one that serves the same function.

Which of the following BEST describes 'social stories' as a behavioral support strategy?

Answer: Short, personalized narratives that describe social situations and appropriate responses to help students understand expected behavior

Social stories, developed by Carol Gray, are individualized narratives that describe a social situation, cues, and appropriate responses to help students — particularly those with autism — understand social expectations.