EBT Final Exam 2025 With 100%
Correct Answers
Behavioral Cusp - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A cusp can be defined by access to new environments
and reinforcers, generativeness, competition with inappropriate responses, the number and
relative importance of people affected, and social validity
Define prompt and state the terminal goal of prompting. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A
supplementary stimulus that increases the likelihood of a correct response, the terminal goal of
prompting is always for responding to occur in the presence of the natural environmental cues
in the absence of prompts
What are the two decisions that must be made when using prompts? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔What type of prompt, how to fade
Response prompt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔supplementary stimuli that guide a response during
learning
Example: delayed cue, graduated guidance, MTL, LTM
Stimulus prompt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔supplementary stimuli that are used to guide learner
to respond correctly to a stimulus, changes a stimulus
Example: stimulus fading, stimulus shaping, position cues
Extra-stimulus prompt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔supplementary to the target stimulus, different
form
Within-stimulus prompt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a distinctive manipulation of color, shape, or
size within the target discriminative
, What does it mean to transfer stimulus control? Why is transfer of stimulus control an
important element of any teaching procedure that involves prompting? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Response that was controlled by the prompt comes to be controlled by the
instructional target stimulus. If you don't transfer stimulus control, responding will be
dependent on the prompt.
Describe the process for implementing and fading a delayed prompting procedure. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Immediate prompt, wait two seconds, wait four seconds, independent
Describe what is meant by the following statement: "The delayed cue method is often a useful
procedure for transferring stimulus control but can also produce prompt dependency (Ahearn
et al., 2007, p. 62)." - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Fading prompts on a time delay is useful because it
allows time for the learner to independently initiate the response in the absence of a prompt,
however, some learners will wait for the prompt in order to make a correct response that results
in some type of reinforcement.
What is graduated guidance and why is it difficult to implement properly? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Systematic fading out for prompts - typically starts with full manual guidance, uses
only as much assistance as needed to produce correct response
Requires skill on part of teacher
Must be practiced and reinforced in order to be in teacher's repertoire
Requires consistency
Difficult to implement across multiple teachers
Distinguish between graduated guidance and most-to-least fading of prompts. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Graduated guidance - Use only as much prompting as necessary, fading occurs
within the session
Most to least - Criterion to fade is determined by performance across trials and sessions and
fading is done in prescribed hierarchy.
Correct Answers
Behavioral Cusp - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A cusp can be defined by access to new environments
and reinforcers, generativeness, competition with inappropriate responses, the number and
relative importance of people affected, and social validity
Define prompt and state the terminal goal of prompting. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A
supplementary stimulus that increases the likelihood of a correct response, the terminal goal of
prompting is always for responding to occur in the presence of the natural environmental cues
in the absence of prompts
What are the two decisions that must be made when using prompts? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔What type of prompt, how to fade
Response prompt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔supplementary stimuli that guide a response during
learning
Example: delayed cue, graduated guidance, MTL, LTM
Stimulus prompt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔supplementary stimuli that are used to guide learner
to respond correctly to a stimulus, changes a stimulus
Example: stimulus fading, stimulus shaping, position cues
Extra-stimulus prompt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔supplementary to the target stimulus, different
form
Within-stimulus prompt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a distinctive manipulation of color, shape, or
size within the target discriminative
, What does it mean to transfer stimulus control? Why is transfer of stimulus control an
important element of any teaching procedure that involves prompting? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Response that was controlled by the prompt comes to be controlled by the
instructional target stimulus. If you don't transfer stimulus control, responding will be
dependent on the prompt.
Describe the process for implementing and fading a delayed prompting procedure. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Immediate prompt, wait two seconds, wait four seconds, independent
Describe what is meant by the following statement: "The delayed cue method is often a useful
procedure for transferring stimulus control but can also produce prompt dependency (Ahearn
et al., 2007, p. 62)." - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Fading prompts on a time delay is useful because it
allows time for the learner to independently initiate the response in the absence of a prompt,
however, some learners will wait for the prompt in order to make a correct response that results
in some type of reinforcement.
What is graduated guidance and why is it difficult to implement properly? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Systematic fading out for prompts - typically starts with full manual guidance, uses
only as much assistance as needed to produce correct response
Requires skill on part of teacher
Must be practiced and reinforced in order to be in teacher's repertoire
Requires consistency
Difficult to implement across multiple teachers
Distinguish between graduated guidance and most-to-least fading of prompts. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Graduated guidance - Use only as much prompting as necessary, fading occurs
within the session
Most to least - Criterion to fade is determined by performance across trials and sessions and
fading is done in prescribed hierarchy.
