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Betty is a five-year-old girl with autism.  She lives at home with her parents and younger brother.  She attends a Pre-K class in the public schools in the morning.  Betty is not responsive to her parents’ verbal behavior at all, and tends not to even look at her parents unless they are holding something she wants, such as her favorite dolls or fruit snacks.    Betty does not know how to read or write yet, and she can only indicate what she wants by screaming and crying.  She tends to stand in front of whatever she wants and cry while pointing until her parents get it for her.  Her team wants to teach her to touch a picture of a preferred item as a request rather than her proximity and screaming.      Which of the prompts below is MOST likely to work with Betty?

Every time Lori refuses to write her name on her worksheets, her teaching assistant holds her hand and guides the pencil through writing the letters.   What procedure is being used with Lori?

Which of the following reinforcers would work best if shaping a dog to sit and roll over

You notice that a child with autism engages in high rates of stereotypy any time he has to wear a shirt with a collar.  You decide that after today, you will not make him wear collared shirts. What type of antecedent intervention is the decision to wear non-collared shirts?

The truce between Catholics and Protestants brokered by the marriage of Henry of Navarre into the French royal family was broken because

The Irish Rebellion of 1569 was supported by

  Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises offers an interesting contrast to Luther’s writings because in Loyola’s work  

  Lutheranism would not have survived and flourished without the support of  

  Under Queen Mary, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer was  

In response to Charles I’s arrest of parliamentary leaders, the English Parliament