TEACHING LANGUAGE TO CHILDREN WITH AUTISM

AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

(B.F. SKINNER’S FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF VERBAL BEHAVIOR)
Resource Speaker: DR. LOLITA DIONISIO-SERRANO

QUIZ :

 When teaching a new skill what type of time delay is used?

 A. Zero second
 B. Three second
 C. No time delay is used
 D. Ten second

 2. When a learner wants a cookie and signs cookie, what verbal operant is that?

 A. Tact
 B. Mand
 C. Echoic
 D. Intraverbal

 3. Identify three of the teaching procedures that we use for children with autism.

 A.Pair the teaching environment with punishment

 B. Variable Ratio (VR)
 C. Intersperse easy and difficult demands
 D. Never teach to fluency
 E. Use transfer trials.

 4. A baby cries because they are hungry and the baby is given a bottle.  If in the future the
baby cries more when they are hungry, what has occurred?

 A. Prompt
 B. Reinforcement
 C. Extinction
 D. Errorless Teaching

 5. When a learner responds "bed" after being asked "what do you sleep in?" and there is no
bed present, what verbal operant has occurred?

 A. Intraverbal
 B. Tact
 C. Echoic
 D. Mand

 6. 
When you prompt an item, what is the trial called that occurs after the prompt?

 A. Errorless Teaching Trial

 B. Time Delay Trial
 C. Transfer Trial
 D. Both A and C

 7. Data taken only one time during a session is known as cold probe data.

 A. True
 B. False

 8. When teaching a learner to mand, volume and stemming are two indicators of motivation.

 A. True
 B. False

 9. When a learner makes an error, what needs to be done to ensure the learner does not chain
the incorrect response with the correct response?

 A. Provide a transfer trial

 B. Present the target several times
 C. Prompt the correct response
 D. Repeat the SD

 10. With a variable ratio schedule (VR), learners are reinforced after a/an ___________
number of responses.

 A. Fixed
 B. Average

 11. When a learner is reliably echoing the name of an item they want on the first trial, what
procedure may be used to teach more independent manding?

 A. Echoic to Tact Procedure

 B. No procedure is used
 C. Echoic to Mand Procedure
 D. Prompting

 12. When prompting a learner to learn a new skill, it is important that we use prompts
as____________.

 A. Antecedents
 B. Consequences
 C. Reinforcements
 D. Punishment
 13. When you are first placed on a team it will be important that you pair with
reinforcement?

 A. True
 B. False

 14. The teaching procedure that results in Retention, Endurance, Stability, and Application is
known as ___________________.

 A. Mixing and Varying

 B. Teaching to Fluency
 C. Using Extinction
 D. Short inter-trial intervals

 15. 
When a learner signs cookie when they want a ball what should you do?

 A. Wait until the learner signs cookie

 B. Use a scrolling procedure
 C. Give the learner a cookie
 D. Prompt the correct sign

 16. After a target skill has been acquired how long is that item put into retention?

 A. 5 days
 B. 7 days
 C. 10 days
 D. 3 days

 17. If a learner engages problem behavior at the table in order to escape the demand and you
keep the demand on the learner, what procedure has occurred?

 A. Positive Reinforcement
 B. Negative Reinforcement
 C. Discriminative Stimulus
 D.Extinction

 18. If you point to a ball in a book and ask a learner "what is it?" and the learner says "ball",
this would be an example of what verbal operant?

 A. Tact
 B. Echoic
 C. Intraverbal
 D. Mand

 19. Check the three signs you should not teach learners with autism.
  A. Yes
 B. Potty
 C. Ball
 D. More
 E. All Done

 20. Who wrote the book "Verbal Behavior"?

 A. BF Skinner
 B. Vince Carbone
 C. Mark Sunberg
 D. Jim Partington

 21. The inter trial interval time should be how long?

 A. 10 seconds
 B. 3 seconds
 C. 5 seconds
 D. 20 seconds

 22. In the article "Behavioral Treatment and Normal Educational and Intellectual
Functioning in Young Autistic Children" what percentage of children achieved normal
intellectual and educational functioning after intensive intervention?

 A. 40%
 B. 53%
 C. 47%
 D. 32%

 23. How many times do you say the name of an item when a learner is sign manding?

 A. 5
 B. 6
 C. 4
 D. 3

 24. If you ask a learner to tell you something you can cut food with and they respond "knife"
when there is no knife present, what verbal operant is that?

 A. Tact
 B. Intraverbal
 C. Echoic
 D.Mand

 25. When you contrive a situation the mand is occurs naturally.

 A. True
  B. False

 26. A latency period of exactly 3 seconds would be considered an error.

 A. True
 B. False

 27. To capture a mand the mand must be occurring naturally.

 A. True
 B. False

 28. If a therapist were to ask a child "what day comes after Tuesday" and the child responds
"Thursday, Friday" and eventually comes to "Wednesday" this would be considered an error and
__________________?

 A. Latency
 B. Scrolling

 29. In the article "Teachin Language to a Two-Year-Old with Autism" what did the results
show?

 A. Signs can be taught when you use non-reinforcing items to supplement correct
teaching procedures.
 B. Signs can be taught when the learner is sitting down.
 C. Signs can be taught when you use highly reinforcing items to supplement correct
teaching procedures.
 D. Signs can be taught when you use hand-over-hand procedures and no reinforcement.

 30. In the error correction procedure, we repeat the SD and prompt using a zero second
delay.

 A. True
 B. False

 31. 
When a therapist is using an echo manding procedure with a beginning learner who is vocal, they
should not give the item presented if the learner does not echo them after three trials.

 A. True
 B. False