PTB co-founder Dana Meller distills the three different interventions, related by the group.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section G-18: Use group contingencies.
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If a response prompt and a stimulus prompt both prompt correct responses, what is the difference?
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Depending on the source, you can get some conflicting information about DRL vs DRD. PTB co-founder Dana Meller clears up the confusion with a more current look at these two reinforcement procedures.
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Not too sure about discriminating between the different teaching arrangements? Not to worry. PTB founder Dana Meller is here to explain trial-based vs free operant procedures.
The books don’t really say much about what chaining methods BCBA’s should apply to what behaviors. PTB co-founder Dana Meller breaks it down.
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section G-8: Use chaining.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller sends an important warning for test takers. Watch out for extremes in exam questions and answer options.
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Want an easy way to make the correct discrimination between response blocking and extinction? PTB co-founder Dana Meller borrows from the #starwars universe to help explain.
BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section: G-16 Use positive and negative punishment (e.g., time-out, response cost, overcorrection).
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Relating, framing and equating. PTB co-founder Dana Meller drills into the generalizability of relational frame theory, equivalence-based instruction, and stimulus equivalence. Would you believe they all go together?
Refer to BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Sections B-15: Define and provide examples of derived stimulus relations; G-21: Use procedures to promote stimulus and response generalization; G-12: Use equivalence-based instruction.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller talks about programming common stimuli and how this method can help students feel more prepared on exam day.
Refer to Task List section G-21: Use procedures to promote stimulus and response generalization.
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PTB co-founder Dana Meller shares a trick for discriminating between response and stimulus prompts.
BCBA® Task List (5th ed.) Section G-4: Use stimulus and response prompts and fading (e.g., errorless, most-to-least, least-to-most, prompt delay, stimulus fading)
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