EDUC 31555

Type

Quiz

Book Title

Positive Behavioral Supports for the Classroom 3rd Edition

ISBN 13

978-0133803259

July 27, 2017

Which of the following is true about using extinction?

a. Behaviors placed on extinction reduce quickly.

b. Behaviors placed on extinction often increase in frequency or intensity before they

begin to diminish.

c. Extinction is only appropriate for behaviors that have an escape function.

d. Behaviors placed on extinction reduce slowly, but once eliminated, they never

reappear.

John was taking too long to go to the restroom and return to class. What type of data

recording system should the teacher use?

a. duration

b. time sampling

c. event

d. latency

If this problem (Sam not doing his work) continues, what should Mr. Price do?

a. Continue the DRO intervention as is.

b. Continue the DRO intervention, but add a time-out consequence for not doing his

work.

c. Continue the DRO intervention, and use extinction for not doing his work.

d. Continue the DRO intervention, and add a DRI intervention for work completion.

Reliance on researched based, validated practices is a hallmark of PBIS.

a. true

b. false

Classrooms that have which of the following characteristics are ripe for a wide range of

behavior problems?

a. Classrooms that are crowded.

b. Classrooms that have congested spots.

c. Classrooms that have furnishings that are not appropriately sized for the students.

d. all of the above

The advantages of using a reinforcer menu include which of the following?

a. The teacher controls the choices.

b. The student can choose and/or rank reinforcers.

c. Reinforcer menus are an easy way to determine reinforcer choices.

d. all of the above

Counting by 5's is an example of which type of learning?

a. Conceptual learning

b. Rule learning

c. Procedural learning

d. Factual learning

Performance deficits refer to skills the student does not know how to perform.

a. true

b. false

Functional Behavioral Assessment is based on several assumptions. Which of the

following statements is not one of these assumptions?

a. Antecedents affect behavior.

b. Parents are the most influential in a student's school behavior.

c. Sometimes, problem behavior reflects a failure to learn a more appropriate alternative

way to behave.

d. Behavior serves a purpose.

Referring to the student described in question #5, Ms. Preston should have attempted

which of the following interventions?

a. seclusionary time-out and response cost

b. extinction and response cost

c. antecedent interventions and proximity control

d. all of the above would have been appropriate for Ms. Preston to use

Teaching students the skill of how to accept negative feedback is an example of which

type of learning?

a. Conceptual learning

b. Rule learning

c. Procedural learning

d. Factual learning

Mr. Night teaches a laboratory science class. His students are allowed to talk to students

at their lab table during group work. However, they have begun to test this privilege and

are talking across tables. Mr. Night should address this problem with

a. developing new rules and procedures.

b. reteaching and developing reminders for current rules and procedures.

c. punishment.

d. none of the above

If everyone in Mr. Collins' resource class gets an 90% or higher on their math facts quiz

on Friday morning, the class can spend the rest of the period playing math games. This

is an example of which type of group reinforcement system?

a. independent

b. interdependent

c. dependent

d. quasi-dependent

John is beginning to learn how to write complete sentences in his special education

resource class. In his general education history class, he often acts out when he is asked

to write answers in complete sentences. John has not reached what stage of learning as

it applies to his writing?

a. acquisition

b. proficiency

c. maintenance

d. generalization

Each Monday, Ms. Carver has her students record the average grade they hope to

achieve for each subject during the week. This is an example of goal setting.

a. true

b. false

BIPs should describe both the challenging behaviors that interfere with a student's

success, and desired replacement behaviors.

a. true

b. false

It is critical that behavior reductive techniques be implemented correctly, and that their

use be monitored closely. The more negative the technique, the more important it is to

use a team approach for monitoring and decision making.

a. true

b. false

One of Mr. Sims students has a high rate of asking for teacher attention during the

direct teach section of any lesson. Mr. Sims developed a reinforcement plan that

reinforced this student for gradually fewer interactions with the teacher. What type of

differential reinforcement was being used?

a. differential reinforcement of alternative behavior

b. differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior

c. differential reinforcement of lower levels of behavior

d. differential reinforcement of zero levels of behavior

Behavioral contracts and small group instruction in social skills might be interventions

used in which tier of SW- PBIS?

a. secondary level prevention

b. primary level prevention

c. tertiary level prevention

d. none of the above

If Ms. Green's students cleaned up correctly after breakfast, they could earn an extra

juice or milk with their breakfast the next morning. The extra juice or milk was what

type of reinforcer?

a. primary

b. secondary

c. intrinsic

d. token

The less time teachers spend on discipline problems, the more time they have to teach.

a. true

b. false

Because the proactive and preventive elements of SW- PBIS meet the needs of most

students, school personnel are able to focus their resources on which of the following?

a. Designing fund raisers.

b. After school enrichment programs.

c. Students who are unresponsive to other school wide strategies.

d. Teachers who need academic mentoring.

In order to determine the procedures you need for your classroom, you need to

a. consider the learning and behavioral characteristics of your students.

b. consider all of the tasks required during the school day.

c. list behaviors that will make your classroom a positive learning environment.

d. all of the above

Mr. Miller takes his position as a special educator very seriously. He is busy working in

his classroom from the beginning till the end of the work day. He rarely goes to the

teachers' lounge and has not made friends with his peers. This school year, his principal

announced that students in special education would receive services within general

education classes. What will Mr. Miller need to do in order to implement this plan?

a. listen respectfully to the ideas of others

b. tell his principal that he prefers not to teach in this arrangement

c. offer help only when asked

d. spend as little time in the teacher's lounge as possible to avoid having to listen to

other teachers' complaints about his students

Direct teach is an instructional activity that involves the teacher systematically

following a series of steps to explicitly teach new skills and concepts.

a. true

b. false

Mr. Graves graphed behavior data for his students and then taught the students to graph

their own behavior. In parent conferences he described these graphs to parents by

saying that graphs

a. provide a picture of how the behavior is changing over time

b. facilitate the decision making process

c. are easy for both teacher and students to use

d. all of the above

Hypotheses should address

a. appropriate and inappropriate behaviors.

b. conditions under which target behaviors are likely to occur.

c. potential functions of behavior

d. all of the above

Ms. Berry's student gradually learned to read. As he grew more confident in his reading

skill, Ms. Berry slowly moved from a continuous schedule of reinforcement to an

intermittent schedule of reinforcement. What term is used to describe this change of

reinforcement schedules?

a. satiation

b. thinning

c. deprivation

d. none of the above

Which one of the choices below briefly describes concerns regarding the Life Space

Interview.

a. Behavior debriefing may reinforce unacceptable behavior.

b. Students' may use feelings as an excuse for unacceptable behavior.

c. LSI can result in loss of academic learning time.

d. all of the above

A new student was placed in Ms. Preston's resource class. Ms. Preston had very little

information about this student. The student exhibited high rates of disruptive behaviors

and noncompliance. Ms. Preston didn't believe in using any formal behavior

management systems, but she immediately implemented an exclusionary time-out

procedure for the new student. Evaluate Ms. Preston's decision to use exclusionary

time-out.

a. This was the correct decision.

b. Ms. Preston should have first tried less aversive interventions, including

reinforcement-based interventions.

c. Ms. Preston should have first conducted a functional assessment for this student.

d. b and c only

Careless, unsystematic application of positive reinforcement can increase

_____________ behaviors as well as desirable behaviors.

a. intelligent

b. undesirable

c. academic

d. gross motor