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Mrs. Kettle is administering sight word instruction to Bryan, a student with an intellectual disability. During the session, she places three cards with different words in front of the student and asks the student to point to a specific word (e.g., “Point to cat”). For the first item Bryan gets correct, she provides praise and an M&M.  She provides praise, but no M&M, for the second and third item Bryan gets correct, but provides praise and an M&M for the fourth item Bryan gets correct. Bryan receives no M&Ms for correct responses on items 5-9, but does receive M&Ms for correct responses on items 10 and 11.  This most likely describes which of the following schedules of reinforcement?

A student receiving M&Ms in class every 5 minutes, regardless of their behavior, is an example of which of the following?

An agreement between a student and teacher that defines a clear performance objective, a reinforcer associated with completion of the objective, and a timeline for both the completion of objectives and dissemination of the reinforcer, is best defined as which of the following?

Which of the following statements concerning fidelity is TRUE?

Which of the following is most closely related to organizing data obtained from an interviews and observations in order to arrive at a hypothesis?

A student tends to engage in aggressive behavior when assigned to a specific paraprofessional. Which of the following describes an antecedent-based intervention?

A student does not appear to be responding to an intervention after three weeks. Observation suggests staff are not implementing the intervention correctly. Which of the following actions would be appropriate?

A child with ASD continually engages in skin-picking when he does not have the opportunity to play with small objects. This is most closely related to which of the following potential causes of SIB?

During independent reading time in language arts, when several minutes have passed without him receiving teacher attention, Bill makes disruptive comments and walks around the room. The function of the behavior is adult attention. Which of the following is an appropriate antecedent prompting strategy?

Which of the following involves  students comparing their work against some standard of performance?