Measurements
The RBT recorded 18 instances of the child throwing items in the classroom. What type of continuous measurement procedure is the RBT implementing?
Frequency
Your client's rate self-injurious behavior has increased. The previous rate was 1 time per hour and the rate for your last session was 27 times per hour. You should____?
Contact BCBA immediately and inform him of the behavior change after the session is over
Niko's spitting is maintained by escape from demands and tasks. An appropriate replacement behavior for Niko's spitting would be_____
Ask for a break.
You meet someone new at a party. As you shake hands, they say their name. You immediately repeat their name. This is an example of:
Ecohics
our client has met mastery criteria for tying his shoes. This behavior continues to occur after the intervention been removed. This refers to:
Maintenance
Which measurement procedure is being used if the observer is recording if the target behavior occurred at any point in the interval?
Partial Interval Recording
What is the most common graph used in applied behavior analysis?
A line graph
Continuous reinforcement should be used for ____.
Teaching new behaviors that are on acquisition
”What’s this” is a potential Sd for this verbal operant.
A Tact
Which is the most complete definition of behavior?
Anything a person says or does
A teacher delivers a student a break from independent seated work after exactly 1 hour since their last break. This is describing what schedule of reinforcement:
Fixed Interval
Sam sees a green ball and says “green.” Sam sees grass and says “green.” Sam also sees dark green leaves on a tree and says “green.” This is an example of:
Stimulus Generalization
Extinction is best described as _____.
No longer providing reinforcement for a particular behavior when it occurs
The BCBA gave the RBT 10 tasks to have the learner perform to assess whether the learner can perform the tasks or not. This is an example of:
Probing
Before you start your session, you ask your client if he wants to work for the opportunity to play a game or if he wants to work for video game time. Asking him what he wants to earn is called ______.
A preference assessment
The time between two responses given.
Intra-response time
______ are a type of motivating operation events which make specific stimuli or behaviors less valuable based on the present need.
Abolishing Operations
A behavior that has a consequences beyond the change itself is
A behavior cusp
The instructor is following the learner's lead in the treatment session, including choosing learning activities based on what the learner is interested in and using items that are naturally reinforcing to the learner. This might best be categorized as _____.
Natural Environment Training
When teaching a lesson that includes a behavior chain, a ____ data sheet may be used to record complete and accurate data.
A task analysis
_______ used to measure some instances of behavior but not all. Typically associated with partial and whole interval recording and momentary time sampling.
Discontinuous Measurement
By altering a variable between a setting event and a behavior we are utilizing what dimension of behavior analysis?
Analytic
The idea that simple, logical explanations can be ruled out, experimental or conceptually, before more complex or abstract explanations are considered.
Parsimony
Tito is completely addicted to slot machines because approximately every 10 pulls, he wins some money, sometimes more, sometimes less. Unfortunately, Tito is down about $300, but that doesn't stop him because that next pull could be the big one. All slot machines use this to get people addicted. What is this an example of?
What is an intermittent schedule of reinforcement?
The organism values the reinforcer from birth and does not need to be taught. Appropriate behaviors to access reinforcement may still need to be taught.
Unconditioned Motivating Operation