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This overview covers key principles and practices of behavior analysis in school settings. It addresses behavioral function, assessments, interventions, the role of registered behavior technicians, collaboration, and the challenges of delivering behavior analysis services in schools. The document emphasizes the importance of understanding environmental variables, data-driven decision making, and treatment fidelity. It also discusses telehealth supervision, mentoring in ABA, and the impact of legal decisions on ABA services in schools. This resource provides valuable insights for behavior analysts, educators, and professionals supporting students' behavioral and academic success.
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Which of the following could be a replacement behavior for cutting in line? - ✔✔Teaching to stand in line and wait Which of the following is a consequence intervention involving punishment? - ✔✔Taking away a token Which of the following could be a replacement behavior for grabbing or stealing food? - ✔✔Teaching the person to ask for food Which of the following is included in a functional assessment plan: - ✔✔A definition of the behaviors of concern What is an interobserver agreement (IOA)? - ✔✔When 2 data collectors agree on data collected at the same time during a behavior. Consequence interventions involve - ✔✔Reinforcing desired behaviors and reducing the display of undesirable behavior Which of the following could be a prevention strategy for a behavior that involves throwing items? - ✔✔Minimizing the number of items that could be thrown
Why are crisis plans incorporated into some behavior intervention plans? - ✔✔Because some behaviors cause a risk to the safety of the individual engaging in the behavior or others in the environment Behavioral function tries to explain: - ✔✔Why the behavior is happening Undesirable behavior can be reduced by: - ✔✔Reinforcing alternative behaviors, using extinction, or punishment Which of the following can RBTs do in relation to implementing intervention plans? - ✔✔Collect data on the effectiveness of the plan Which of the following is an example of a motivating operation: - ✔✔Fred is hungry so crackers work well as a reinforcer for task compliance Automatic reinforcement is associated most closely with: - ✔✔Stereotypic behavior What is the estimated percentage of self-injurious behaviors that have automatic reinforcement as the function according to Hagopian et al. (2015)? - ✔✔25% Michelle is an RBT who is teaching a mother how to implement a visual schedule for her child. What is Michelle doing? - ✔✔Training a parent how to implement an intervention Which of the following 2 assessments are often used in conjunction to provide an overall picture of an individual's receptive and expressive labeling abilities? - ✔✔The expressive vocabulary test and the peabody picture vocabulary test
The Interview Informed Synthesized Contingency Analysis (IISCA) uses: - ✔✔Information from open- ended interviews to determine which experimental conditions to use in a functional analysis Which of the following considerations related to intervention data triggers the need for a re-assessment of skills? - ✔✔The client has not made much progress Which of the following autism specific criterion referenced assessments offer an assessment of 25 skill areas: - ✔✔The ABLLS-R Criterion-referenced assessments are most useful for: - ✔✔Building skill acquisition programs One of the biggest drawbacks of the workshop format is: - ✔✔It is often difficult to coordinate schedules for the time needed True or False: Deep programming involves setting a few goals and targets at one time. - ✔✔True Which of the following assessment and intervention systems require certification in the specific programs? - ✔✔Early Start Denver Model and PEAK Which of the following general statements about assessment in relation to ABA programming is correct?
Which of the following can be said about social skills assessments not designed specifically for individuals with autism? - ✔✔While they offer a picture of an individual's social functioning, the results are not adequate for making all the decisions necessary for social skill intervention Which of the following activities are web-based ABA curricula and data collection systems designed to replace? - ✔✔Manual data entry on skill acquisition plans Which of the following is an indicator that an intake appointment has been successful? - ✔✔You have a good idea how to proceed with assessment of skills If brief functional analysis data show that rates of problem behavior occur the most during an ignore condition, which of the following is the most logical behavioral function: - ✔✔attention Precursor functional analyses help to prevent: - ✔✔Extensive reinforcement of problem behavior In trial-based functional analysis, control conditions are usually provided: - ✔✔Before the test conditions Functional assessment yields __ results, while functional analysis yields __ results. - ✔✔correlational; causal Prior to Iwata et al.'s original study of functional analysis and self-injury, when differential reinforcement failed, what did alternative treatments consist of: - ✔✔Restrictive interventions such as restraints or aversives
Which of the following statements reflects the idea behind Interview- Informed Contingency Analysis (IISCA): - ✔✔Behaviors respond to multiple reinforcers not just one Which of the following types of functional analysis is the best choice for behaviors that occur once like disrobing: - ✔✔Latency-based functional analysis A logical control condition for an ignore condition would be: - ✔✔An attention condition When presenting an attention condition, which of the following should be done: - ✔✔Provide the individual with attention for the behavior Trial-based functional analysis works by: - ✔✔Providing antecedents and consequences in natural environments Which of the following data collection methods is the most commonly used in brief functional analyses - ✔✔Event recording Both functional assessment and functional analysis have the goal of generating: - ✔✔A hypothesis as to why the individual engages in a behavior Water might have a value-altering effect when: - ✔✔A person is very thirsty Which of the following is an example of how stimulus control could be augmented? - ✔✔A timer to signal how long to brush teeth
Motivating operations can exert stimulus control over a behavior by: - ✔✔Playing a role in the effectiveness of the reinforcer at that point in time A most-to-least prompting sequence involves: - ✔✔Using the most intrusive prompt, then less intrusive prompts until the least is used Stimulus control occurs when: - ✔✔An individual behaves one way in the presence of a stimulus and differently in the presence of another Which of the following should be used for teaching the concept of blue? - ✔✔Various shades of blue on identical objects Stimulus equivalence occurs when: - ✔✔A response is correctly displayed in the presence of a stimulus that has not been trained or reinforced Which of the following is an example of a naturally occurring discriminative stimulus at work? - ✔✔Seeing a stop sign and stopping Which of the following is a learner characteristic that could impact the development of stimulus control?
Which type of graph provides the most information about variability in the data? - ✔✔Line graphs Which of the following is true about data collection? - ✔✔It is the foundation for creating behavior interventions Why is it important to record data as close to the time the behavior actually occurred as possible? - ✔✔So the data will be more likely to reflect an accurate picture of the behavior Why would the prompt level necessary to perform the skill be an important part of data collection? - ✔✔Skills performed with prompts are not mastered until they are performed without prompts. Which of the following is a drawback of probe data? - ✔✔It is less accurate Which of the following types of graphs are most preferred in the field of ABA? - ✔✔Line Graphs Susan records data after every discrete trial she delivers. What type of data recording is this? - ✔✔Trial by trial The process of defining target behaviors using a precise definition is called: - ✔✔Operationally defining the behavior Which of the following is a discontinuous data recording procedure? - ✔✔Whole interval recording
Why are trends sometimes necessary to include on line graphs? - ✔✔Data paths are not always clear Cumulative graphs are used: - ✔✔When progress toward a predetermined number of behaviors should be demonstrated Recently, Mario's tantrums seem to last longer. Which data recording procedure might be the best one to use to determine this? - ✔✔Duration A trend that ascends from left to right means: - ✔✔A behavior is increasing Data collected during naturalistic teaching should always include information about: - ✔✔Target behaviors, prompt levels needed, and activities Data are plotted on line graphs according to: - ✔✔The number of instances of the behavior across time Which of the following graphs indicate the total number of behaviors in an additive fashion? - ✔✔Cumulative graphs Which of the following statements is true regarding ABA telehealth supervision? - ✔✔while the BACB guidelines for supervision were not originally developed with telehealth in mind, remote methods that attend to privacy protection laws and regulations are acceptable Which of the following helps to ensure that telehealth supervision is effective for the individual supervisee? - ✔✔ask how you can make your supervision more effective throughout the course of supervision
Active listening involves: - ✔✔paraphrasing and reflecting back what the other person said Which of the following provides a scope and sequence for ABA supervision? - ✔✔the RBT, BCBA/BCaBA Task Lists and ethical codes Supervisors must ensure telehealth supervision is - ✔✔encompassing, ethical, and effective supervisors providing telehealth supervision can improve rapport with supervisees by: - ✔✔attending to cues such as gestures, tone of voice and eye contact which of the following is an advantage of using telehealth supervision - ✔✔it provides more efficient meeting scheduling Communication delivered electronically instead of face-to-face can sometimes impede a supervision relationship by seeming: - ✔✔distant or impersonal Which of the following activities might an RBT supervisor provide? - ✔✔behavioral skills training to learn how to perform a paired stimulus preference assessment Encryption software is required for telehealth supervision so that? - ✔✔information shared will remain private
Which of the following helps to address a concern about treatment fidelity when providing telehealth supervision? - ✔✔using competency checklists in addition to supervisee type, which of the following is a priority when providing telehealth supervision? - ✔✔needs of clients Why is it important to evaluate the effects of supervision - ✔✔to prepare those entering the field of ABA to serve clients safely and correctly Which of the following statements is true regarding the nature of supervision via telehealth? - ✔✔telehealth supervision must meet the same requirements as in-person supervision Which of the following statements is true regarding HIPAA violations? - ✔✔consequences can involve significant monetary fines What is the purpose of behavior analytic supervision? - ✔✔to provide the foundation for ABA staff to engage in decision-making and practices that ensures that services delivered are in a way that benefits the receivers of those services and promotes the advancement of the field Which of the following is the best definition of behavior analytic supervision? - ✔✔it is an active process of systematic shaping of the multiple skills required of those who are practicing or who want to practice ABA Which of the following types of ABA professionals can write skill acquisition programs unsupervised? - ✔✔BCBA
Which of the following statements is true? - ✔✔supervisors are ultimately responsible for the work of their supervisees When is a formative evaluation conducted? - ✔✔at scheduled intervals within an evaluation period Which of the following is a good tip for mentors to follow? - ✔✔express excitement when those whom you mentor perform at higher levels than previously achieved Which of the following is true regarding the work of BCaBAs? - ✔✔BCaBAs can supervise RBTs Which of the following is the biggest benefit of mentoring new professions into the field? - ✔✔provides mentees an opportunity to discuss unique situations with an experienced and caring mentor When does mentoring occur? - ✔✔when an experiences professional shares their knowledge, skills, and experience to assist other less experiences or knowledgable professionals within the system in which they work Which of the following best describes the role of the RBT in the service delivery system? - ✔✔implements skill acquisition plans for clients which of the following is an example of a "restricted" activity as defined by the BACB? - ✔✔implementing discrete trials which of the following is recommended when supervisors have taught new skills to supervisees? - ✔✔following up on the supervisees' performance of the new skills
BCaBAs require a supervision contract? - ✔✔2 times per month Summative evaluation should provide? - ✔✔an evaluation of an individual's performance based on previous formative evaluation results and goals What percentage of hours of supervision time should BCaBA and BCBA trainees receive during independent fieldwork? - ✔✔5% What is the best combination of consequence variables if you want a behavior to happen? - ✔✔Positive, Immediate, Certain What should we use to determine if our staff goals are socially valid? - ✔✔If our learners rate of desired outcome acquisition improves. Which example has the best combination of consequence variables? - ✔✔opening Facebook when you want to see whats going on with your friends. Which item is most likely to be an effective reinforcer for excellent teaching behavior? - ✔✔An individual bonus delivered that day When we think "the rat is never wrong," in regards to our employees- what does that mean? - ✔✔Employees respond to the contingencies within their environment.
Supportive supervision has been shown to: Increase stress levels in supervisees Have no effect on supervisees Prevent stress in supervisees Reduce stress for supervisees - ✔✔Reduce stress for supervisees What can supervisors do in an effort to minimize supervisee stress? Provide as many rules as you can think of and hold supervisees accountable. Allow supervisees to navigate issues on their own with minimal guidance. Be supportive as you guide them through tough ethical issues. Make sure they get frequent pay raises. - ✔✔Be supportive as you guide them through tough ethical issues. A research validated theory regarding job stress suggests that
Job stress causes unethical behavior in some employees Job stress contributes to a poor work ethic among employees Job stress causes workers to have poor mental health Job stress contributes to negative attitudes and high turnover - ✔✔Job stress contributes to negative attitudes and high turnover Which of the following behaviors could indicate a risk for forming a multiple relationship? Spending time reading about a syndrome a parent revealed about their child one day after therapy Hugging a child goodbye after a therapy session Accepting a birthday gift from a family member of a client Expressing excitement to a parent over a child's new mand repertoire - ✔✔Accepting a birthday gift from a family member of a client What might be the best way to intervene with a family member who has repeatedly asked a supervisee to babysit?