Let’s Break Down a BCBA® Mock Exam Question: Level Up Your Chaining Game for Maximum Efficiency & Natural SR+
PTB founder Dana Meller reviews and breaks down in detail a BCBA® mock exam question about different chaining methods in behavior analysis.
G. Behavior-Change Procedures
Level Up Your Understanding of Differential Reinforcement Procedures
Test your knowledge of differential reinforcement with PTB founder Dana Meller as she discusses the specific DR procedure to provide the client with reinforcement for exhibiting higher rates of the target behavior(s) that already exist in their repertoire. Additionally, Dana draws parallels to personal experiences and highlights skill areas for which clients could benefit from this SR schedule.
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Mass trial
A procedure in discrete-trial teaching during which the same learning trial (SD) for an acquisition skill is presented several times in a row.
Massed practice
A self-management procedure that aims to decrease challenging behavior by having an individual engage in the repeated performance of the challenging behavior.
6th Edition TCO
Matching-to-sample
A conditional discrimination procedure in which a stimulus is presented and taught to match a secondary stimulus. Reinforcement is delivered for correctly matching the two antecedent stimuli. Matches can include
Mediation
A method to program for generalization during instruction that involves teaching the individuals present in a client’s life (parents, employers) to help maintain and generalize new skills outside of treatment
Modeling
A strategy for teaching new skills by using a live or symbolic model to demonstrate an exact behavior needed to perform a skill and teaching the client to imitate the
6th Edition TCO
Most-to-least prompting
A method of prompt fading determined by an individual’s progress that proceeds from the most intrusive/supportive to the least intrusive/supportive as the individual is successful, with the final goal of
Multiple exemplar training
A method to program for generalization during instruction that involves teaching a variety of response and stimulus options to facilitate the acquisition of untrained responses in the presence of novel
Naturalistic teaching
A teaching methodology that involves embedding learning opportunities into ongoing, every day activities by capitalizing on the EOs in natural contexts and choice-making, focusing on client interest and initiations.
Naturally existing contingency
A natural consequence (reinforcement or punishment) that follows a behavior without any environmental manipulation by a practitioner.
Negative teaching examples
A method to program for generalization during instruction that involves teaching the client to generalize and discriminate the settings, times, and conditions in which it is not appropriate to display