Rosa has educational goals to learn to speak English. Her therapist presents pictures of preferred items, states the label in English, and prompts Rosa to repeat them. Over time, the therapist stops labeling items and begins to present Rosa with a variety of pictures of the same items. The therapist is utilizing ___________ to teach Rosa.

You are a BCBA working with a non-verbal child in middle school. You observe the child and talk to family. You come up with the overall conclusion that the child only requests what he wants by grunting. Those around the child do not know what he wants or needs, so you make that your first priority in skill acquisition. Which core principle does this best represent?

The traditional and formal views of the properties of language involve the:

You have just completed an FBA on a child in a general education classroom setting. You have hypothesized that the challenging behavior is maintained by access to peer attention. Which antecedent intervention strategy would be the most appropriate in this situation?

You are working as a BCBA within a home setting with a seven-year old client who is struggling to learn an intraverbal response related to the feature of an item during a discrete trial training session. Although the client has responded to prompting provided by the BCBA, there has been difficulty fading the prompts for this child. The child has not responded independently after several teaching sessions. The BCBA decides to utilize a previously mastered tact to help teach this skill. What type of procedure is being used in this scenario?

According to Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior (1957), the __________ is unique in that it is the only verbal repertoire where the behavior is followed by a characteristic consequence.

A Nutritional therapy for which condition includes a reduction in protein?

The goals of nutritional therapy are to treat and manage disease, prevent complications, and restore or maintain health through appropriate diet. 

Factors that can affect the therapeutic process regardless of the particular intervention include:       

Which of the following statements are true concerning placebo and nocebo responses?