ABAT - Applied Behavior Analysis Antecedent-Based Interventions Questions and Answers

Question 1

An ABAT is working with a client who often becomes agitated and throws materials when presented with difficult academic tasks.
To prevent this, the supervisor suggests offering the client a choice between two different tasks (e.g., 'Would you like to do the math worksheet or the spelling list first?').
This strategy is an example of which antecedent-based intervention?

Accepted Answer

Providing Choice

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Response Cost

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Extinction

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Positive Punishment

Question 2

A client has difficulty transitioning from a preferred activity (playing on a tablet) to a non-preferred activity (cleaning up). The ABAT creates a visual schedule with pictures showing 'Tablet Time' followed by 'Clean Up Toys.' What is the primary purpose of this antecedent-based intervention?

Accepted Answer

To increase predictability and clarify expectations about the upcoming transition.

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To punish the client for not transitioning quickly.

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To physically guide the client through the clean-up routine.

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To reinforce the client only after clean-up is fully completed.

Question 3

Which of the following is the BEST example of a High-Probability (High-P) Request Sequence?

Accepted Answer

Asking a client to perform three easy, known tasks (e.g., 'Clap hands,' 'Touch your nose,' 'Stomp feet') in rapid succession before delivering a more difficult instruction (e.g., 'Put your coat on').

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Giving a client a token for every five minutes they stay on task.

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Ignoring a client's minor off-task behavior while praising on-task behavior.

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Teaching a client to ask for a break instead of crying.

Question 4

Noncontingent Reinforcement (NCR) is an antecedent-based intervention that aims to reduce problem behavior by:

Accepted Answer

Providing access to a known reinforcer on a time-based schedule, regardless of the client's behavior.

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Teaching a new skill to replace the problem behavior.

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Removing a preferred item every time the problem behavior occurs.

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Only providing reinforcement when the client goes a full interval without the problem behavior.

Question 5

A client frequently screams to get attention from the ABAT. A functional behavior assessment (FBA) confirms the function is attention. The supervising BCBA implements an intervention where the ABAT teaches the client to tap a picture of a person on their communication board to request attention. This antecedent-based intervention is known as:

Accepted Answer

Functional Communication Training (FCT)

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Shaping

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Response Interruption and Redirection (RIRD)

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Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)

Question 6

The fundamental goal of all antecedent-based interventions is to:

Accepted Answer

Modify the environment or context *before* a behavior occurs to prevent it from happening.

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Increase the effectiveness of punishment procedures.

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Measure the frequency and duration of target behaviors.

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Apply a consequence *after* a behavior occurs to change its future likelihood.