Chapter 23 Antecedent Intervention

Question 1

The temporal relation of stimuli or events coming before an occurrence of behavior.

Answer 1

Antecedent

Question 2

Functions of antecedent stimuli or events can be classified as __________ ________ Or ____________- ___________.

Answer 2

Contingency dependent (stimulus control) or
Contingency independent (MO)

Question 3

Antecedent event is dependent on the consequences of behavior for developing evocative and abative effects.

Answer 3

Contingency Dependent

Question 4

Antecedent event is not dependent on the consequences of behavior for developing evocative and abative effectS.

Answer 4

Contingency Independent

Question 5

Three antecedent interventions

Answer 5

Noncontingent reinforcement,
High-probability request sequence, and
Functional communication training.

Question 6

An antecedent intervention in which stimuli with known reinforcing properties are delivered on a fixed-time (FT) or variable- time (VT) schedule independent of the learner’s behavior.

Answer 6

Noncontingent Reinforcement

Question 7

NCR uses three distinct procedures:

Answer 7

(a) positive reinforcement (i.e., social mediation),
(b) negative reinforcement (i.e., escape), and
(c) automatic reinforcement (i.e., without social mediation).

Question 8

Three procedures to thin NCR schedules:

Answer 8

(a) constant time increase,
(b) proportional time increase, and
(c) session-to-session time increase or decrease

Question 9

The teacher or therapist selects two to five short tasks with which the learner has a history of compliance. These short tasks provide the responses for the high-p requests. The teacher or therapist presents the high-p request sequence immediately before requesting the target task, the low-p request.

Answer 9

High-Probability Request Sequence

Question 10

To apply the high-p request sequence, the teacher or therapist selects ___ to _____ short tasks with which the learner has a history of compliance.

Answer 10

Two to five

Question 11

An appropriate communicative behavior to compete with problem behaviors evoked by an establishing operation (EO

Answer 11

Functional Communication Training

Question 12

Functional communication training is an application of

Answer 12

Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA)

Question 13

Alternative communicative responses can take many forms, such as

Answer 13

Vocalizations, 
Signs, 
Communication boards, 
Word or picture cards, 
Vocal output systems, or gestures