ABAT Generalization and Maintenance Strategies Flashcards
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A behavior analyst wants to promote stimulus generalization across multiple teachers. Which strategy is MOST effective?
Answer: Use multiple exemplars by training with several different teachers
Training with multiple exemplars (different teachers) promotes stimulus generalization by exposing the learner to varied discriminative stimuli.
Which of the following BEST describes 'sequential modification' in the context of generalization programming?
Answer: Systematically applying intervention in each non-training setting after generalization fails to occur naturally
Sequential modification involves applying the intervention one setting at a time when generalization does not spontaneously occur across environments.
A child learns to say 'please' only during structured sessions with his therapist. This is an example of failure in which type of generalization?
Answer: Stimulus generalization
Stimulus generalization has failed because the behavior does not transfer to stimuli (people, settings) beyond the original training conditions.
Which maintenance strategy involves gradually thinning the reinforcement schedule after the target behavior is acquired?
Answer: Indiscriminable contingencies
Indiscriminable contingencies (e.g., variable ratio schedules) make reinforcement unpredictable, which supports maintenance by mimicking natural reinforcement patterns.
A practitioner programs for generalization by using materials from the client's actual home environment during clinic training. This technique is called:
Answer: Common stimuli
Incorporating common stimuli from the natural environment into training promotes transfer of behavior to that environment.
Response maintenance is MOST likely to occur when:
Answer: The behavior contacts natural reinforcers in the environment
Behavior is best maintained when it contacts natural reinforcement in the environment, making external programmed reinforcement unnecessary.
When a learner acquires a behavior in training and it spreads to topographically similar but untrained responses, this is called:
Answer: Response generalization
Response generalization occurs when trained behavior generalizes to other, similar response forms that were never directly trained.