Prompting and Fading Procedures Flashcards
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A trainer teaches shirt-buttoning using hand-over-hand guidance, then partial hand guidance, then a light wrist touch, then no contact. This best exemplifies:
Answer: Graduated guidance fading
Graduated guidance fades physical assistance from full guidance to partial contact to shadowing until the learner responds independently.
To assess whether a learner has developed prompt dependency, a clinician should conduct:
Answer: Probe trials without prompts
Probe trials remove all prompts to determine whether the learner can respond to the natural SD independently, directly revealing prompt dependency.
A teacher fades a verbal prompt from 'Touch the red circle' to 'Touch the r___' to just the SD. This technique is best described as:
Answer: Verbal prompt fading using partial prompts
This describes fading a verbal prompt from a complete instruction to a partial word, reducing verbal support until only the natural SD controls the response.
Which condition is MOST likely to interfere with successful prompt fading?
Answer: Inconsistent fading steps across trainers
Inconsistent fading steps across trainers prevent systematic reduction of prompts and can produce prompt dependency or highly variable performance.
A 'positional prompt' involves:
Answer: Placing the correct stimulus in a location closer to the learner
A positional prompt increases the likelihood of a correct response by placing the correct stimulus in a preferred or salient location, such as closest to the learner.
After prompts are successfully faded, a learner begins making increased errors. The BEST immediate step is to:
Answer: Reintroduce a previously effective prompt level and re-fade systematically
When errors increase following fading, best practice is to step back to a more supportive prompt level and re-fade to restore accurate, low-error performance.
Which example best illustrates within-stimulus fading using color as a prompt?
Answer: The correct letter is printed in red and the distractor in gray, then colors are gradually equalized
Within-stimulus color fading exaggerates a feature of the correct stimulus (bright red) and gradually equalizes it with distractors until no color difference remains.