ABAT 2026 EXAMINERS SET QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Backward and forward chaining - ✔✔B: Involves the sequence is taught beginning
with the last step
The previous step is not taught until the final step is learned
The consumer immediately understands the benefit of performing the task
F: Involves teaching the sequence beginning with the first step
Typically the learner does not move onto the second step until the first step is mastered
The consumer learns the logical sequence of a task from beginning to end
✔✔Natural Environment Teaching (NET) - ✔✔an evidence-based teaching method in
which ongoing learning exercises take place in an individual's natural settings. This
means it can occur anywhere - in a therapy room, home, church, Target, you name it (or
rather, your child does!).
✔✔Generalization and maintenance - ✔✔G: when skills learned in a training
environment transfer to the natural environment after training has ended.
M: involves the continued use of a trained behavior over time, after the direct
intervention period has ended
, ✔✔Pivotal behavior - ✔✔A pivotal area is a behavior that when targeted, leads to a
large collateral changes in other untargeted areas.
"Observable characteristics of a child's
responding"
Motivation (establishing ourselves as conditioned reinforcers), Responsivity to multiple
cues (multiple sensory input), Self management (self regulation), Self initiations,
Empathy
✔✔Pivotal Response Training (PRT) - ✔✔Goal: to increase motivation to have positive
effects on an individual's learning.
Provide opportunities for learning within the context of the child's natural environment
Facilitates opportunities for family involvement
Treating pivotal behaviors/areas
Centered around social motivation
✔✔Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) - ✔✔A plan that is based on the results of a
functional behavioral assessment (FBA).
Includes a description of the problem behavior, global and specific hypotheses as to
why the problem behavior occurs and intervention strategies that include positive
behavioral supports and services to address the behavior.
✔✔Name 4 functions of behavior - ✔✔Self-Stimulatory (i.e. Play, Control): The
individual behaves in a specific way because it feels good to them
Escape/Avoidance: the individual engages in a behavior to get out of doing something
he/she does not want to do
Attention Seeking: The individual engages in a behavior to get focused attention from
parents, teachers, siblings, peers etc
Tangibles (i.e. Access, Targeting): Individual engages in a behavior in order to get a
highly preferred item or participate in a highly preferred activity
✔✔Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) - ✔✔the process of learning about the
consumer prior to intervention; guides the development of effective and efficient
Behavior Support Plans (BSPs)
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Backward and forward chaining - ✔✔B: Involves the sequence is taught beginning
with the last step
The previous step is not taught until the final step is learned
The consumer immediately understands the benefit of performing the task
F: Involves teaching the sequence beginning with the first step
Typically the learner does not move onto the second step until the first step is mastered
The consumer learns the logical sequence of a task from beginning to end
✔✔Natural Environment Teaching (NET) - ✔✔an evidence-based teaching method in
which ongoing learning exercises take place in an individual's natural settings. This
means it can occur anywhere - in a therapy room, home, church, Target, you name it (or
rather, your child does!).
✔✔Generalization and maintenance - ✔✔G: when skills learned in a training
environment transfer to the natural environment after training has ended.
M: involves the continued use of a trained behavior over time, after the direct
intervention period has ended
, ✔✔Pivotal behavior - ✔✔A pivotal area is a behavior that when targeted, leads to a
large collateral changes in other untargeted areas.
"Observable characteristics of a child's
responding"
Motivation (establishing ourselves as conditioned reinforcers), Responsivity to multiple
cues (multiple sensory input), Self management (self regulation), Self initiations,
Empathy
✔✔Pivotal Response Training (PRT) - ✔✔Goal: to increase motivation to have positive
effects on an individual's learning.
Provide opportunities for learning within the context of the child's natural environment
Facilitates opportunities for family involvement
Treating pivotal behaviors/areas
Centered around social motivation
✔✔Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) - ✔✔A plan that is based on the results of a
functional behavioral assessment (FBA).
Includes a description of the problem behavior, global and specific hypotheses as to
why the problem behavior occurs and intervention strategies that include positive
behavioral supports and services to address the behavior.
✔✔Name 4 functions of behavior - ✔✔Self-Stimulatory (i.e. Play, Control): The
individual behaves in a specific way because it feels good to them
Escape/Avoidance: the individual engages in a behavior to get out of doing something
he/she does not want to do
Attention Seeking: The individual engages in a behavior to get focused attention from
parents, teachers, siblings, peers etc
Tangibles (i.e. Access, Targeting): Individual engages in a behavior in order to get a
highly preferred item or participate in a highly preferred activity
✔✔Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) - ✔✔the process of learning about the
consumer prior to intervention; guides the development of effective and efficient
Behavior Support Plans (BSPs)
