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You are teaching a young boy with autism to tie his shoes.    You break the shoe tying into 5 steps, shown below. 1. Cross laces 2. Make first knot 3. Form bows 4. Tie second knot with bows 5. Pull tight   What is the breakdown of the skill into smaller steps called?

Extinction would be easy to implement and relatively safe in the scenario with David.

Which of the following statements about Response Cost is NOT true?

You are trying to teach Bobby to use his voice to let other people know how he feels.  His normal pattern is to scream when he is upset, scared, or needs help with something.  Your first step in helping is to identify the problem behavior for Bobby.  Which of the following is an antecedent for Bobby?

A token becomes a conditioned reinforcer because it is paired with:

A teacher wants to increase the academic performance of the students in her class.  The children receive stickers each time they complete an academic task, and when they have accumulated a certain number of stickers they can exchange them for 15 minutes of playing computer games.  This program, using conditioned reinforcers to strengthen a desirable behavior, is referred to as:

Which of the following is TRUE about Time Out

You are teaching a young boy with autism to tie his shoes.   You break the shoe tying into 5 steps, shown below. 1. Cross laces 2. Make first knot 3. Form bows 4. Tie second knot with bows 5. Pull tight   As you are teaching the boy, you decide to use a chaining procedure to help him learn.  In a forward chaining procedure, which step in the skill would the boy perform independently FIRST.

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?