___________ occurs when a response that has been trained in a specific setting with
a specific instructor occurs in a different setting or with a different instructor.
a. Response maintenance
b. Stimulus generalization
c. Acquisition
d. Response Generalization
All of the following refer to the process of generalization EXCEPT:
a. transfer of learning
b. stimulus generalization
c. behavioral perspective
d. A and C only
When selecting a criterion for mastery, the teacher should consider:
a. nature of the content
b. ability of the student
c. number of learning opportunities to be provided
d. all of the above
What is considered the aim for a “reliable” percent of agreement for data collection?
a. 75%
b. 70%
c. 90%
d. 80%
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
The relationship between behavior and the environment is:
a. unilateral
b. reciprocal
c. parallel
d. linear
After lunch Mrs. Davis began to work with Marquis on acquisition of his sight words.
Marquis was reinforced on a CRF schedule with primary reinforcers (popcorn).
However, Mrs. Davis notices that the popcorn was not serving as a reinforcer. What
behavioral term describes the phenomenon that Mrs. Davis was observing?
a. deprivation
b. satiation
c. pairing
d. reinforcer sampling
The use of indiscriminable contingencies takes advantage of:
a. sameness and difference in discriminative stimuli
b. naturally occurring reinforcers
c. continuous reinforcement to maintain behaviors
d. intermittent reinforcement to maintain behaviors
During basketball practice, Coach Reeves’ team continually forgot his directive to pass
the ball at center court. For 15-minutes, the coach had is players practice passing the
ball at center court. The educational procedure Coach Reeves used is called:
a. Negative practice overcorrection
b. A conditioned aversive stimulus
c. Restitutional overcorrection
d. Positive-practice overcorrection
The label “percent of intervals of on-task behaviors” would be found on the abscissa.
Nancy is learning to brush her teeth. Her teacher provides her with task analysis for
brushing her teeth. The task analysis is presented by pictures of each step. This is an
example of which prompt?
a. auditory prompt
b. visual prompt
c. least-to-most
d. time delay
The goal of behavior analysts is to __________ the number of options available to
people.
a. decrease
b. neutralize
c. increase
d. limit
During a functional analysis condition a student is presented with a difficult task and
begins to scream. The teacher quickly removes the task and the student stops
screaming. Which of the following might be the function of his behavior?
a. self-stimulation
b. attention
c. escape
d. none of the above
Self reinforcement procedures can include:
a. students choosing reinforcers
b. students determining the cost of reinforcers
c. students choosing behaviors to be modified
d. all of the above
When teaching students to generalize, this procedure provides that the teacher
delivers reinforcement only for responses that are different from previous responses to
the cue.
a. stimulus generalization
b. lag schedule of reinforcement
c. differential reinforcement
d. response generalization
_________ reinforcers are natural, unlearned, or unconditioned.
a. Tertiary
b. Secondary
c. Primary
d. Variable
Self-management strategies have been used with which of the following students:
a. students with severe disabilities
b. students with mild disabilities
c. students at-risk
d. all of the above
The basic single-subject design is the
a. AB Design
b. Multiple Baseline Design
c. Reversal Design
d. Changing Criterion Design
For students to learn self instructional strategies effectively and completely, during the
modeling of the strategies the teacher should include skills of:
a. problem definition
b. focusing attention
c. self reinforcement
d. all of the above
To qualify as a behavior, something must be:
a. observable
b. quantifiable
c. a and b
d. none of the above
Which of the following is NOT one of Bloom’s levels of learning?
a. analysis
b. generalization
c. synthesis
d. comprehension
Miss Curry records some initial data (without interceding) on the number of times Rico
uses inappropriate language in her class. This data condition is known as:
a. Performance
b. Baseline
c. Interval
d. Intervention
Ms. Harper wants to increase John’s behavior of sharing during circle time. Each time
Ms. Harper observes John sharing she provides him with a token and his behavior
increased.
Ms. Harper provided a token as a reinforcer for John’s behavior. The token was what
type of reinforcer?
a. primary
b. secondary
c. sensory
d. none of the above
The time-out procedure in which the student is not removed from the instructional
setting and instead, the teacher temporarily manipulates the environment to deny a
student access to reinforcers is known as:
a. Exclusionary time-out
b. Seclusionary time-out
c. Nonseclusionary time-out
d. Nonexclusionary time-out
Mr. Williams wants to know if using a number line or counting chips would be more
effective when teaching addition to James. The most appropriate design to use is:
a. alternating treatments design
b. multiple baseline design
c. changing criterion design
d. none of the above
The person who knows best what kind of reinforcement a student desires at any one
time is:
a. the teacher
b. the student’s parent
c. the student
d. none of the above
Immediacy of reinforcement delivery is necessary
a. to avoid the hazard of inadvertently reinforcing an intervening behavior
b. to establish a connection between a particular behavior and its consequences
c. to convince the student of the veracity of the contingency
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
The MAS is:
a. Model/Analyze/Structure, a systematic method for teaching equivalent behaviors.
b. Multielement Analysis of Stimuli, a method of verifying hypotheses about behavioral
functions
c. Motivation Assessment Scale, a structured questionnaire used for informant
interviews
d. Manipulation of Antecedent Stimuli, a way to avoid presenting events that occasion
inappropriate behavior
Kip is learning to drink from a cup. His teacher begins providing hand-over-hand
assistance to grasp the cup. The teacher then moves to providing Kip support at his
wrist to guide the cup. This is an example of which prompting strategy?
a. most-to-least
b. time delay
c. graduated guidance
d. none of the above
Mrs. Golden wanted to collect baseline data on how often Lauren speaks to her
neighbor during silent reading. She divided the 15 minutes into equal 30 second
intervals and made a notation of Lauren’s talking during each. The method of data
collection she used was:
a. event recording
b. time sampling
c. interval recording
d. anecdotal recording
Derrick, a student in Mr. Davis’ class repeatedly exhibited tantruming behavior
including, screaming, crying, and hitting. Mr. Davis’ is unsure of the cause of the
behavior. What steps should Mr. Davis take to determine the function of the behavior?
a. trial and error methods
b. conduct a functional assessment
c. ignore the behavior
d. none of the above
Which of the following would be found on the ordinate?
a. number of behaviors
b. rate of behaviors
c. percentage of behaviors
d. all of the above
The schedule of reinforcement having a one-to-one ratio is:
a. Intermittent
b. Variable
c. Interval
d. Continuous
Thinning a schedule of reinforcement should result in all of the following EXCEPT:
a. lower, more variable levels of responding
b. decreasing expectation of reinforcement
c. removal of teacher as a necessary behavior monitor
d. maintenance of the behavior over longer periods of time