Behavior Management Flashcards

A student with Emotional/Behavioral Disability (EBD) consistently acts out during unstructured transition times. Which antecedent strategy is most likely to reduce this behavior?

Answer: Providing a visual schedule and transition warnings

Visual schedules and advance transition warnings address the antecedent (unstructured transitions) by providing predictability and preparation time, reducing the student's anxiety and subsequent acting-out behavior.

What is the key difference between punishment and negative reinforcement in behavioral terms?

Answer: Negative reinforcement increases behavior by removing something unpleasant; punishment decreases behavior

Negative reinforcement removes an aversive stimulus following a behavior, which increases the likelihood of that behavior; punishment applies an aversive consequence or removes a positive stimulus, which decreases behavior.

Which behavior management approach emphasizes teaching students to observe and record their own behavior to increase self-regulation?

Answer: Self-monitoring

Self-monitoring teaches students to observe, record, and evaluate their own behavior, building metacognitive awareness and self-regulation skills that can generalize across settings.

Under IDEA's 'stay-put' provision, where must a student with a disability remain during the pendency of a due process hearing?

Answer: Their current educational placement

The 'stay-put' provision of IDEA requires that a student remain in their current educational placement during the pendency of any due process hearing, unless the parent and district agree otherwise or a court orders a change.

A teacher is using differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) for a student who frequently calls out without raising their hand. What does this strategy involve?

Answer: Reinforcing hand-raising while withholding reinforcement for calling out

DRA reinforces a specific appropriate alternative behavior (hand-raising) while withholding reinforcement for the problem behavior (calling out), increasing the alternative and decreasing the problem behavior.

Which Florida-specific review process is required before a student with a disability can be placed in an alternative educational setting due to a disciplinary infraction?

Answer: Manifestation Determination Review (MDR)

Florida ESE rules require a Manifestation Determination Review (MDR) to determine whether a disciplinary infraction was caused by or related to the student's disability before certain disciplinary placements can be made.