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What does frequency measurement involve?
Which measurement method records the duration of a behavior?
What does momentary time sampling specifically record?
What is the correct formula for calculating rate in behavior measurement?
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What is the main purpose of systematic data collection in a clinical setting?
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What is the primary purpose of conducting preference assessments?
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What critical element should always be documented in session notes?
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Which method is NOT a type of preference assessment?
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How can confidentiality be maintained during client treatment?
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What should be included in the ABC data recording method?
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What is a key element of maintaining professional boundaries with clients?
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What is a requirement for clinical supervision for a therapist?
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What is the primary goal of shaping in instructional methods?
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In a chaining procedure, which statement accurately describes forward chaining?
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Which of the following best defines Discrete Trial Training (DTT)?
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In discrimination training, what determines whether a response will be reinforced?
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What should a therapist do if a client is not responding well to a program targeting their name recognition?
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Which of the following methods is primarily used to encourage a learner to produce the correct response?
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What is a key component of stimulus control transfer in instructional methods?
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What should a caregiver do first when handling a crisis emergency protocol?
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Study Notes
Continuous Measurement
- Frequency: Recording each instance of a behavior.
- Duration: Recording the length of time a person engages in a behavior.
- Latency: Recording the time between an event and the occurrence of a target behavior.
- Inter-response time (IRT): Recording the time between the occurrence of a behavior and the next occurrence of that behavior.
- Rate: Recording each instance of a target behavior per specific time interval and calculating an average (Rate = bx/time).
Discontinuous Measurement
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Time Sampling: Recording the behavior during specific intervals of time.
- Partial Interval Recording: Recording if the behavior has occurred at all during a specific interval of time.
- Whole Interval Recording: Recording if the behavior occurred throughout the entire interval of time.
- Momentary Time Sampling: Recording whether the behavior occurred at the precise end of the interval.
Data & Graphs
- Vital pieces of clinical information: Guide supervisory decision-making for each program.
- Systematic data collection: Enables objective decisions rather than subjective opinions based on feelings.
- EMR (electronic medical record): Allows BCBA's to...
Data Analysis
- Remote Data Analysis: Analyze data remotely to increase efficiency in tracking progress by utilizing frequency, duration, and time sampling for task analysis.
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Preference Assessments:
- Free Operant: Offers clients multiple options to choose from and record the duration of engagement with each item.
- Paired Stimulus/Forced Choice: Presents two items at once, allowing recording of the frequency each item is selected.
- Multiple Stimulus: Presents multiple items and records the frequency and order of selection.
- ABC Data: Records antecedents (what happens before), behaviors, and consequences (what happens after) a behavior.
Session Notes
- Session Notes: Document the events during sessions including individuals present, goals, patient responses to treatment, ABA techniques used, and behaviors tracked.
- Caregiver Participation: Note caregiver involvement.
Client Dignity & Confidentiality
- Client Dignity: Take actions to protect client rights and ensure client safety. Treat all clients with respect at all times.
- Confidentiality: Maintain strict confidentiality by not sharing identifying information on social media or websites. Confidential information should only be discussed with the supervisor unless legally mandated or otherwise authorized. Ensure that the client is always under supervision.
Professional Boundaries
- Refrain from sharing personal contact information with families.
- Minimize personal conversations.
- Keep relationships within the work setting.
- Keep client's protected health information private.
- Avoid engaging in childcare for current or former clients.
Supervision Requirements
- 5% of the therapist's clinical hours must be supervised by a BCBA.
- Two face-to-face contacts with clients per month.
- One BCBA contact with a client present monthly.
Clinical Direction
- Client has been working on a program for 2 months to improve responding to their name, but only responds 20-25% of the time.
- Client responds with a "respond to appropriate social cues" goal, and the therapist is unsure how to address the situation.
Skill Acquisition Definitions
- Discrete Trial Training (DTT): Instruction → target response → reinforcer (doing the first action in DTT).
- Naturalistic Teaching: Naturally occurring instruction → naturally occurring target response → naturally occurring reinforcer.
- Chaining: Systematic methods for teaching a sequence of responses that together make up a task.
Steps of a Chaining Procedure
- Forward Chaining: The client learns the first step, and the therapist completes the rest.
- Backward Chaining: The therapist prompts all steps leading up to the final target step.
Instructional Methods and Protocols
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Shaping: A teaching method where increasingly accurate versions of the target response are reinforced as the client practices.
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Discrimination Training: Teaching the learner that a response will be reinforced in the presence of a specific stimulus (SD), and not in its absence.
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Prompting: Helping the learner produce the correct response.
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Stimulus Control Transfer: The process of providing prompts to help the learner respond correctly. This includes different levels of physical and vocal prompting:
- Full physical model
- Partial physical model
- Light touch
- Independent model
- Full vocal model
- Partial vocal model
- Initial vocal model
- Independent vocal model
- Vocal prompt hierarchy
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Token Systems: A form of conditioned reinforcement.
Crisis Emergency Protocol
- Caregiver is in charge of the client.
- Get to a safe location and call 911.
- Assist caregiver if able to safely provide assistance.
- Inform supervisor.
- Complete incident report (BER) as soon as possible.
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Description
This quiz covers key concepts in both continuous and discontinuous measurement methods in behavioral analysis. Learn about frequency, duration, latency, inter-response time, and various time sampling techniques. Test your knowledge on how to effectively measure behaviors and graph the data.
