Event recording can be reported as all of the following except:
a. percentage
b. rate
c. percent of intervals
d. number
Jay is allowed to use his augmentative communication device only during break, lunch,
and leisure time. According to his teacher, when his device is used during instructional
time, it is distracting to other students. Which ethical rule has Jay’s teacher ignored?
a. The right to a therapeutic environment
b. The right to treatment by a competent behavior analyst
c. The right to the most effective treatment procedures available
d. The right to services whose overriding goal is personal welfare
Which of the following is considered a prompt fading procedure?
a. Graduated Guidance
b. Most-to-Least prompts
c. Time Delay
d. All of the above
Antecedent stimuli or conditions may be defined by the teacher to set up the appropriate
response. They may include:
a. environmental setting, written instructions or verbal responses
b. demonstration, materials to be used and number of responses
c. identifiable behavior, amount of assistance and demonstration
d. demonstration, verbal instructions and manner of assistance
A teacher measured Jane’s out of seat behavior during reading, music, and math periods.
The appropriate design for use in this instance was:
a. multiple baseline design
b. alternating treatments design
c. reversal design
d. changing criterion design
A teacher giving a written test is using:
a. written data recording
b. interval recording
c. permanent product recording
d. anecdotal recording
Which design examines an intervention across settings?
a. reversal
b. multielement
c. AB
d. multiple baseline
Components of a chain are acquired in sequential order. This is known as:
a. Backward chaining
b. Forward chaining
c. Total task presentation
d. Behavioral chaining
When using ___________ for fading prompts, the teacher begins with a level of
prompting that virtually assures that the student will produce the appropriate response.
a. Increasing assistance
b. Graduated guidance
c. Time delay
d. Decreasing assistance
Ms. Kirkland set up a picture schedule to transition students between activities. Once a
student completed an activity they compared their work to a picture of the task
completed. Ms. Kirkland’s students were engaged in _______________.
a. self-monitoring
b. self-instruction
c. self-reinforcement
d. none of the above
The schedule of reinforcement having a one-to-one ratio is:
a. Intermittent
b. Variable
c. Interval
d. Continuous
Student selected performance standards are often:
a. more lenient than teacher selected
b. more stringent than teacher selected
c. totally unreasonable
d. none of the above
A vertical dashed line is used to:
a. connect data points
b. separate conditions
c. draw the axes
d. all of the above
For every third response correct, Scott received reinforcement. What schedule of
reinforcement was Scott on?
a. FI3
b. FR3
c. VI3
d. VR3
____________ is defined as differential reinforcement of successive approximations to
a specific target behavior.
a. Shaping
b. Modeling
c. Behavioral chaining
d. SD
Following the practice spelling test, students are asked to check their own results. This
is a form of:
a. Self-monitoring
b. Self-evaluation
c. Self-instruction
d. Self-punishment
For an explanation of behavior to be parsimonious, it must
a. account for a substantial quantity of behavior
b. be testable
c. provide the simplest explanation
d. provide reliable answers about what people are likely to do under certain
circumstances
The principle of discrimination associated with positive reinforcement is
a. SΔ
b. SD
c. SR+
d. SR-
Students may be trained to be reinforced by generalization as a response class. This
is described as:
a. programming common stimuli
b. general case programming
c. training to generalize
d. training sufficient exemplars
An antecedent stimulus is:
a. an event occurring before the behavior is performed
b. an event occurring after the behavior is performed
c. a and b
d. none of the above
Physical restraint is considered a(n) ___________.
a. conditioned aversive stimulus
b. unconditioned aversive stimulus
c. overcorrection
d. exclusion timeout
In _____________, students report an occurrence of their behavior.
a. self-recording
b. self-evaluation
c. self-reinforcement
d. self-instruction
A task analysis should be used when
a. The needs exists to systematically introduce various prompts
b. A teacher wants to decrease a student’s inappropriate behaviors
c. A teacher wants a student to acquire a complex behavioral chain
d. All of the above
Functional communication training (FCT) is the teaching of an appropriate
communication form to reduce an inappropriate behavior which serves a
communicative intent. This is an example of which behavior reduction procedure?
a. DRA
b. DRO
c. DRL
d. DRI
Who is associated or responsible for the use of the term “behaviorism?”
a. Skinner
b. Watson
c. Darwin
d. Pavlov
Forms of applied behavior analysis include:
a. hypnosis
b. drug therapy
c. electroconvlusive shock therapy
d. none of the above
Mr. Garcia checked at five-minute intervals to see if Jane was playing appropriately in a
small group. He was using:
a. interval recording
b. time sampling
c. event recording
d. duration recording
Target behavior must be included in behavioral objectives because:
a. the precise definition of the behavior facilitates continuity of instruction
b. the statement allows for confirmation that a change has actually occurred
c. both a and b
d. none of the above
All of the following reduce behavior by removing a desired stimulus EXCEPT:
a. time out
b. response cost
c. contingent observation
d. noncontingent reinforcement
To determine the most effective intervention for a behavior, it is necessary to analyze:
a. Antecedents and Behaviors
b. Behaviors and Consequences
c. Consequences and Antecedents
d. Antecedents only
Ms. Wilson’s class went two days a week to work at a local grocery store. To assist
with generalization, such as sorting, she created a simulation of the grocery store in
their classroom. This is an example of teaching generalization using :
a. indiscriminable contingencies
b. programming common stimuli
c. training loosely
d. general case programming
Gradual removing of prompts is known as __________.
a. Fading
b. Backward chaining
c. Shaping
d. All of the above
Miss Curry decides to decrease Rico’s use of inappropriate language by requiring him to
lose a behavior point for every inappropriate word he uses each day. Once
implemented, she again gathers data on the number of times he uses inappropriate
language in her class. This data condition is known as:
a. Intervention
b. Baseline
c. Event recording
d. Performance
Self-management is made up of many components. Which of the following is a
component of self- management?
a. goal setting
b. self-reinforcement
c. self-evaluation
d. all of the above