ABA Generalization & Maintenance Flashcards
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The 'train and hope' approach to generalization is considered inadequate because:
Answer: Generalization is not reliably produced by training in a single setting without explicit programming
Simply training a skill and hoping it generalizes spontaneously is unreliable; generalization must be explicitly programmed to ensure it occurs across relevant conditions.
Teaching 'sufficient exemplars' means:
Answer: Including enough varied examples during training to promote generalization across untrained instances
Teaching sufficient exemplars ensures the learner contacts enough variety to abstract the defining features of a stimulus class, promoting generalization.
A BCBA is programming generalization for a client learning to cross the street safely. Which strategy is MOST direct?
Answer: Training in multiple real-world intersections with varied traffic, signals, and pedestrians
For safety skills, training across multiple real-world exemplars (varied settings, stimuli, conditions) is the most effective way to ensure generalization where it truly matters.
Generalization probes are conducted to:
Answer: Assess whether trained behavior occurs under novel, untrained conditions without providing reinforcement
Generalization probes test performance in untrained conditions (new stimuli, settings, or people) without reinforcement to measure the extent of generalization.
Which generalization strategy involves teaching self-management skills so that a learner can monitor and reinforce their own generalized behavior?
Answer: Mediated generalization
Mediated generalization teaches the learner a self-management response (e.g., self-monitoring, self-reinforcement) that 'travels' with them and mediates performance across settings.
According to Baer, Wolf, and Risley's dimensions of ABA, generality is defined as:
Answer: Behavior change that proves durable over time, appears in a variety of environments, and spreads to other behaviors
Generality (one of the 7 dimensions of ABA) means that behavior change lasts over time (maintenance), occurs across settings and people, and may spread to related behaviors.