You are teaching a young boy with autism to tie his shoes. …

You are teaching a young boy with autism to tie his shoes.    You break the shoe tying into 5 steps, shown below. 1. Cross laces 2. Make first knot 3. Form bows 4. Tie second knot with bows 5. Pull tight   What is the breakdown of the skill into smaller steps called?

A teacher wants to increase the academic performance of the…

A teacher wants to increase the academic performance of the students in her class.  The children receive stickers each time they complete an academic task, and when they have accumulated a certain number of stickers they can exchange them for 15 minutes of playing computer games.  This program, using conditioned reinforcers to strengthen a desirable behavior, is referred to as:

Assume you want to shape a child to sit up straight with bet…

Assume you want to shape a child to sit up straight with better posture while playing piano.  Currently, they sit slumped, hunched over, on the bench not directly facing or aligned with the keyboard.  What order of the steps below would represent an effective shaping process? 1. Sit fully upright aligned with the piano with shoulders back and spine straight 2. Sit with shoulders and spine aligned with the piano 3. Sit with head up while aligned with the piano 4. Sit with spine straight up and down but shoulders drooped while aligned with the piano  

Betty is a five-year-old girl with autism.  She lives at hom…

Betty is a five-year-old girl with autism.  She lives at home with her parents and younger brother.  She attends a Pre-K class in the public schools in the morning.  Betty is not responsive to her parents’ verbal behavior at all, and tends not to even look at her parents unless they are holding something she wants, such as her favorite dolls or fruit snacks.    Betty does not know how to read or write yet, and she can only indicate what she wants by screaming and crying.  She tends to stand in front of whatever she wants and cry while pointing until her parents get it for her.  Her team wants to teach her to touch a picture of a preferred item as a request rather than her proximity and screaming.      Which of the prompts below is MOST likely to work with Betty?