Generalization and maintenance in ABA
Lesson 21 of 36 in RBT Exam Prep. The start plays free here.
- Acquisition: learning the skill
- Generalization: using it elsewhere
- Maintenance: keeping it
- Teach the skill
- Vary teaching conditions
- Use beyond training
- Continue after teaching stops
- All 43 outline tasks
- 85 questions, 90 minutes
- Explains each wrong answer
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How the lesson starts
You teach a client to ask for help. The focus is acquisition: learning the response. Repeated teaching trials are one way to teach it.
Will asking for help carry beyond your teaching? Generalization means using that response beyond the conditions where it was taught.
Will the client keep asking for help when teaching ends? Maintenance is about keeping the response after teaching procedures stop, not just performing it during practice.
You are teaching a client to request a cup. During acquisition, repeated teaching trials can include your instruction, the client's response, a planned consequence, then a pause.
Then, in the full lesson
- Vary practice
- Everyday teaching
- Beyond practice
- Maintenance
- Different purposes
- 2 questions along the way
A question from this lesson
A client learned to greet you. Which plan directly programs generalization across people?
- Practice greetings with several different people
- Practice greetings only with you
- Stop greeting practice and wait
Show the answer
A. Practice greetings with several different people. Practice greetings with several different people provides multiple training examples across people. Practicing only with you keeps the same person. Stopping and waiting does not arrange practice across people.
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- All 43 outline tasks
- 85 questions, 90 minutes
- Explains each wrong answer
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