The extent to which a learner continues to perform the target behavior after a portion or all of the intervention responsible for the behavior’s initial appearance in the learner’s repertoire has been withdrawn is

Look at the following graph from a functional analysis of Tony’s dropping to the floor. Based on your conclusions about its maintaining conditions, an intervention most likely to be effective in reducing dropping would be

How does one conduct a task analyses of a skill?

When thirsty, a toddler screamed until a sibling finally brought the toddler a drink. Which form of an extinction procedure would be the most appropriate to use in this circumstance? Extinction of behavior maintained by

Mands relations depend on

When a person responds accurately to untrained and non-reinforced stimulus-stimulus relations following training on different stimulus-stimulus relations ________________ has been demonstrated.

Sunil is teaching Matthew to do his laundry. Sunil has written a 36-step task analysis of the skill. He conducted an initial assessment to identify which steps Matthew could already do and discovered that Matthew is only able to independently open and close the lid of the washing machine. Based on this information, which statement is accurate?

An extinction burst is the reoccurrence of a previously reinforced behavior when reinforcement for an alternative behavior is terminated.

How does a high-probability instructional sequence reduce problem behavior?

You are working with a young child with Rett syndrome who engages in very frequent self-injurious finger picking, hair pulling, and face scratching. You have observed that sitting on mom’s lap while playing with toys is reinforcing, so you decide to use this as the reinforcer. You implement a fixed-momentary DRO using a 5 second interval based on baseline data. Which of the following describes a fixed-momentary DRO procedure most accurately?