Generalization and Maintenance Flashcards
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Which technique involves gradually withdrawing structured teaching supports so a client functions in natural routines without prompts?
Answer: Fading
Fading systematically reduces the level of prompting to promote independent responding and support generalization.
To promote generalization, an RBT teaches tooth brushing using the client's own bathroom, school bathroom, and grandma's bathroom. This is called:
Answer: Multiple exemplar training
Multiple exemplar training exposes the learner to many examples of a concept across settings, people, and materials to promote generalization.
A skill that was mastered in therapy but is never performed at home without reminders is BEST described as lacking:
Answer: Setting generalization
Setting generalization means the behavior occurs across different environments; without it, skills stay tied to the training context.
Which approach involves naturally occurring reinforcement in the environment to help sustain learned behaviors?
Answer: Natural community of reinforcement
Trapping or recruiting a natural community of reinforcement means the behavior contacts naturally available reinforcers that sustain it without ongoing intervention.
An RBT introduces distractors and variations during maintenance checks. What is the PRIMARY reason for this?
Answer: To assess whether skill is truly generalized and durable
Adding variability during maintenance probes tests whether a skill is truly robust and generalized versus only rote or context-dependent.
Which of the following BEST describes 'programming common stimuli'?
Answer: Including stimuli from the natural environment in training
Programming common stimuli means incorporating items, people, or cues from the natural environment into training to increase transfer.
A client who learned to wash hands after using the restroom now also washes hands before meals without being taught. This illustrates:
Answer: Stimulus generalization
Stimulus generalization occurs when the behavior (hand washing) extends to new antecedent stimuli (mealtime) not directly trained.