1. Which of the following would not be an appropriate target for the most adult-directed instructional strategies?
A. Learned behaviors that need to be generalized to natural settings B. The most significantly delayed student behaviors C. Critical skills that require rapid acquisition D. Behaviors that require rapid extinction ( i.e., self-injurious behaviors)
2. Any event following a behavior that increases the probability that the behavior will occur again is considered a
A. prompt B. command C. naturalistic time delay D. reinforcer
3. AJ loves to repeat favorite lines from videos all day long to anyone who will listen. He is learning to monitor his behavior during instructional activities and save “video-talk” for designated “break” times with teacher. For every subject period, A.J. can earn a minute of break time by remembering to save the “video-talk.” This is an example of what strategy?
A. Behavioral momentum B. Differential reinforcement of low rate behavior (DRL) C. Expansion D. Fading
4. The strategy in which children are reinforced for making accurate statements about their intended behavior is known as
A. backward chaining B. response shaping C. discrimination training D. correspondence training
5. Planned episodes of brief adult-child interaction that take advantage of naturally occurring reinforcers in the course of ongoing activities and routines describe which category of instructional strategies?
A. reinforcement strategies B. naturalistic strategies C. response-prompt strategies D. all of the above
6. Response prompts are behaviors that prevent a child from performing a target skill or behavior.
True False
7. Increasing assistance or graduated guidance are both terms that describe which of the following strategies?.
A. Modeling B. Fading C. System of least prompts D. Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA)
8. An effective strategy for teaching a child to correctly select the named object from a set of two or more would be
A. Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI) B . Discrimination training C . “Mand” modeling D . Chaining
9. Which of the following is not a component of discrete trial instruction?
A. Command B. Response time C. Incidental teaching D. Reinforcer
