Evidence Based Teaching Final Exam
2025 With 100% Correct Answers
Define behavioral cusp - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A behavior change that meets these 5
guidelines:
-access to new reinforcers
-is socially valid
-promotes generativeness
-competes with inappropriate responses
-number and relative importance of people affected
Example of a behavioral cusp - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Imitation
Access to new reinforcers: imitating peers and adults allows access to social reinforcers
social validity: typically developing peers imitate
Generativeness: could generalize to vocal behavior, reciprocal play, etc.
Competes with inappropriate behaviors: allows imitation of vocal behavior to compete with
tantrums
number and relative importance of people affected: benefits the child, their peers, teachers,
and caregivers
example of behavioral cusp - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Joint attention:
,Access to new reinforcers: would increase social reinforcement from adults and peers
social validity: a skill typically developing children have
generativeness: can occur across stimuli, people, locations and is foundation skill for other social
interactions
competes with inappropriate behaviors: helps gain adults or peers attention instead of yelling
for attention
number and relative importance of people affected: helps improve social interactions for
caregivers, peers, and child
example of behavioral cusp - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Walking
Access to new reinforcers: allows child to reach new environments and items
Social validity: skill typically developing children have, common in society
Generativeness: allows for other skills to develop like running, jumping, playing sports
competes with inappropriate behavior: since children can now walk to get to preferred items
could reduce tantrums/crying
number and relative importance of people affected: very important to the child themselves for
gaining independence and for the caregivers
,What are the short-term goals of behavior analytic intervention for autism? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔To address behavioral deficits and excesses by providing carefully structured
learning opportunities and target skills based on objective assessments
ex: EIBI
What is the long-term goal of behavior analytic intervention for autism? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔To teach learners to learn from typical
environments, build complex, age-appropriate behavior that produces reinforcement
ex: observational learning and independent routines
Describe the three basic components of a trial and a fourth that may be included in teaching -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1. Antecedent - an event or activity that immediately precedes a
behavior
2. Response - the behavior being emitted
3.Consequence - any event that occurs after the behavior
4. Prompt - a cue which increases the likelihood of desired behavior to occur (ex: physical
guidance)
What are some variations of teaching arrangements that comprise behavior analytic
instruction? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Adult initiated
-Learner initiated
-Embedded in typically occurring activity
-Hybrids of the above
, What are some characteristics of behavior analytic instruction that apply across most
variations? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Repeated trials/learning opportunities w/ reinforcement
-Instruction (e.g., timing, pacing) individualized
-Data recorded on learner's responses
-Data graphed and analyzed
-Intervention changed if no/limited progress
Define prompt and state the terminal goal of prompting - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ancillary
stimuli that are effective in establishing the appropriate behavior in the presence of the target
or new discriminative stimulus
-end goal: for responding to occur in presence of natural environmental cues in absence of
prompts
What are the two decisions that must be made when using prompts? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1.
Type of prompt to use
2. How to transfer stimulus control from
the prompt to the target stimulus
What is a response prompt? give an example - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-It is supplementary
stimuli that guide the child's response during learning
-always extra stimulus prompts
-ex: verbal, textual, modeling, gestures, and physical prompts
2025 With 100% Correct Answers
Define behavioral cusp - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A behavior change that meets these 5
guidelines:
-access to new reinforcers
-is socially valid
-promotes generativeness
-competes with inappropriate responses
-number and relative importance of people affected
Example of a behavioral cusp - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Imitation
Access to new reinforcers: imitating peers and adults allows access to social reinforcers
social validity: typically developing peers imitate
Generativeness: could generalize to vocal behavior, reciprocal play, etc.
Competes with inappropriate behaviors: allows imitation of vocal behavior to compete with
tantrums
number and relative importance of people affected: benefits the child, their peers, teachers,
and caregivers
example of behavioral cusp - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Joint attention:
,Access to new reinforcers: would increase social reinforcement from adults and peers
social validity: a skill typically developing children have
generativeness: can occur across stimuli, people, locations and is foundation skill for other social
interactions
competes with inappropriate behaviors: helps gain adults or peers attention instead of yelling
for attention
number and relative importance of people affected: helps improve social interactions for
caregivers, peers, and child
example of behavioral cusp - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Walking
Access to new reinforcers: allows child to reach new environments and items
Social validity: skill typically developing children have, common in society
Generativeness: allows for other skills to develop like running, jumping, playing sports
competes with inappropriate behavior: since children can now walk to get to preferred items
could reduce tantrums/crying
number and relative importance of people affected: very important to the child themselves for
gaining independence and for the caregivers
,What are the short-term goals of behavior analytic intervention for autism? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔To address behavioral deficits and excesses by providing carefully structured
learning opportunities and target skills based on objective assessments
ex: EIBI
What is the long-term goal of behavior analytic intervention for autism? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔To teach learners to learn from typical
environments, build complex, age-appropriate behavior that produces reinforcement
ex: observational learning and independent routines
Describe the three basic components of a trial and a fourth that may be included in teaching -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1. Antecedent - an event or activity that immediately precedes a
behavior
2. Response - the behavior being emitted
3.Consequence - any event that occurs after the behavior
4. Prompt - a cue which increases the likelihood of desired behavior to occur (ex: physical
guidance)
What are some variations of teaching arrangements that comprise behavior analytic
instruction? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Adult initiated
-Learner initiated
-Embedded in typically occurring activity
-Hybrids of the above
, What are some characteristics of behavior analytic instruction that apply across most
variations? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Repeated trials/learning opportunities w/ reinforcement
-Instruction (e.g., timing, pacing) individualized
-Data recorded on learner's responses
-Data graphed and analyzed
-Intervention changed if no/limited progress
Define prompt and state the terminal goal of prompting - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ancillary
stimuli that are effective in establishing the appropriate behavior in the presence of the target
or new discriminative stimulus
-end goal: for responding to occur in presence of natural environmental cues in absence of
prompts
What are the two decisions that must be made when using prompts? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1.
Type of prompt to use
2. How to transfer stimulus control from
the prompt to the target stimulus
What is a response prompt? give an example - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-It is supplementary
stimuli that guide the child's response during learning
-always extra stimulus prompts
-ex: verbal, textual, modeling, gestures, and physical prompts
