Question 1: Read and Discuss
-Use your Applied Behavior Analysis text to read the following:

Chapter 16, “Motivating Operations,” pages 374–391.
Chapter 17, “Stimulus Control,” pages 392–409.
0r Read the following PowerPoint presentations:
Chapter 16, “Motivating Operations.”
Chapter 17, “Stimulus Control.”
-Use the Library to read the following:
Johnston and O’Neill’s 2001 article, “Searching for Effectiveness and Efficiency in Conducting Functional Assessment: A Review of Proposed Process for Teachers and Other Practitioners,” in Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, volume 16, number 4, pages 205–214.
Derby et al.’s 1994 article, “Functional Analysis of Separated Topographies of Aberrant Behavior,” in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, volume 27, number 2, pages 267–278.

Question 2: Prompts
You will hear your instructor talk about different prompts associated with applied behavior analysis. Listen to the lecture and take notes. Then post a substantive response to the following:

-Explain the difference between a response prompt and a stimulus prompt.
-Describe four types of response prompts and give an example of each.
-Describe three different stimulus prompts.

Question 3: Stimuli
In this Instructor Contact Session, you will hear your instructor talk about different stimuli. Listen to the lecture and take notes. Then post a substantive response to the following:

-Explain the similarities and differences between motivating operations and discriminative stimuli. Provide examples.
-Explain the differences between response and stimulus prompts that are used to develop stimulus control for teaching purposes.

Text:
Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., & Heward, W. L. (2007). Applied behavior analysis (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall. ISBN: 9780131421134.