Video modeling, behavioral skills training, script training and fading, and peer-mediated interventions can be effective intervention strategies for teaching social skills. 

Carefully review the case scenario information below and build an intervention to address the presenting referral concern. Please follow all instructions for every part of the question to get full points.  Background Information: Gina is a 6-year-old girl who has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis. Gina was referred for clinic-based ABA services by her pediatrician/family. The primary referral concern is that Gina engages in very intense aggressive outbursts towards her parents and siblings. She engages in several instances of physical aggression per day.  Gina does not have any vocal language or functional communication, and she has not had exposure to, or training with, any form of AAC communication such as PECs or a tablet/iPad device.  Gina receives 6 hours per week of ABA therapy in a clinic-based setting and attends speech services once per week at the local hospital. She attends her local school, and is in a self-contained classroom.  Assessment:  The BCBA conducted a series of interviews, observations, and a functional analysis to determine the function of Gina’s aggressive behavior. Based on information gathered throughout the assessment process, the BCBA determined that the function of Gina’s aggression is attention.  Select intervention strategies to build an intervention package for this situation based on the case scenario information provided. Select and describe ONE, function-matched antecedent intervention strategy for this situation (4 points).  In 1-2 sentences, provide a rationale for why you selected the antecedent strategy you described in part “a” above (2 points). Select and describe ONE, function-matched instructional/consequence-based (reinforcement) strategy for this situation (4 points). In 1-2 sentences, provide a rationale for why you selected the instructional/consequence-based (reinforcement) strategy you described in part “c” (2 points).  In 1-2 sentences, provide recommendations you could provide to Gina’s caregivers and teachers about how to respond to the target/problem behavior if it does occur (2 points).  In 1-2 sentences, provide a rationale for why you selected your recommendations for responding to target/problem behavior in part “e” above (2 points).     

Which of the following expressions is equivalent to:!(A < 5 && B != C)

Ms. Cooper started an intervention for her high school students to reduce disrespectful/inappropriate comments during class. Ms. Cooper randomly draws a “mystery student” each week and tracks disrespectful/inappropriate comments throughout the week for the “mystery student”. If the “mystery student” engages in disrespectful/inappropriate comments during class under a predetermined number of times (e.g., under 2 times) during the week, the entire class gets 30 minutes of free time on Friday to socialize and play on their phones. If the “mystery student” earns free time for the class, Ms. Cooper congratulates them publicly. If they do not earn free time for the class, the student remains a mystery and the class can try again the next week. This intervention is an example of a/an ______________.

Unit tests focus on testing a single “unit” of functionality like a class method or function.

A BCBA is working with a client in a clinic context on hand-washing. The BCBA develops a task analysis for hand-washing and conducts a series of multiple opportunity probes to determine the client’s baseline level of performance with the task analysis. Results of the probes indicate that the cannot complete any of the steps of the task analysis independently except for the last step (throwing the paper towel away). Which of the following is TRUE in regards to selecting a chaining procedure for this situation? 

__________ is a group intervention approach where individuals in a group/class are taught to report instances of their peers’ prosocial behaviors. 

A random variable    with the range   has the following distribution     Find , the expected value of , and , the variance of , and check boxes next to all the answers that apply. (Note that first, you need to determine the missing value ).

A machine produces bearings with standard deviation of 0.4mm from the calibrated dimension of the inner diameter of a bearing. A quality control manager wants to test whether the machine was well calibrated for producing bearings with inner diameter of 32mm. A sample of 24 randomly chosen bearings has mean 31.8 mm. Assume that the diameter of a randomly chosen bearing is normally distributed. Find the critical region of the test that the quality manager should perform and make a decision whether to reject at the significance level 0.10.  One of these may be useful. qnorm(0.10, mean=0, sd=1, lower.tail=FALSE) = 1.281552 qnorm(0.05, mean=0, sd=1, lower.tail=FALSE) = 1.644854qnorm(0.90, mean=0, sd=1, lower.tail=FALSE) = -1.281552 qnorm(0.95, mean=0, sd=1, lower.tail=FALSE) = -1.644854 Which of the following answers is correct in all of its parts?

The Humane Society of Central Oregon recently took in a female tortoiseshell kitten which is extremely rare with roughly 1 in 3,000 tortoiseshell birth being female.