UG Review/ Background
Interviews
Observation
Cog-Beh
EBA
100
In operant conditioning, the removal/termination of an unwanted consequence
What is Negative Reinforcement?
100
A behavioural interviewer needs to work with the client to develop specific and easily observable descriptions. List 5 possible descriptions for a client who describes themselves as “depressed.
Any 5 behavioural, cognitive, or emotional examples
100
An example of this phenomenon includes: When a child who is normally impulsive and who often interrupts the classroom notices a behavioral assessor visiting his classroom, the child doesn't say a word.
What is Reactivity?
100
Making a broad judgment based on a minor aspect of an event.
What is Selective Abstraction?
100
The definition of EBA.
What is a model that directly assesses classroom variables and their potential relationship to effective instruction?
200
Behavioural assessment assumes variability in personal characteristics based largely on these factors.
What are Environmental/Situational Factors?
200
An example of this could include: The presence of aggression is indicated by any unwanted physical contact with another person.
What is an Operational Definition?
200
According to Beck, these are the cognitions associated with depression.
What are Arbitrary Inference, Selective Abstraction, Overgeneralization, and Magnification/Minimization?
200
These variables have been called pre-instructional, instructional, and post-instructional.
What are Variables that Constitute the “Ecology of the Classroom”?
300
Little Albert had a conditioned fear of white furry objects (rabbits, rats). Draw the Pavlovian Model of this conditioned fear.
What is US (noise) - UR (fear); CS (noise + rat) - CR (fear)
300
List 5 things that should be accomplished in a behavioural interview
Any 5 of the 9 items listed on p. 105
300
This type of observation might involve observing a child in their home and at school.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
300
When using this assessment method, clients are asked to verbalize their on going thoughts.
What is the Think Aloud Technique?
300
_______ is primarily concerned with accelerating student academic responding and rates of learning whereas _____ is primarily concerned with decelerating inappropriate classroom behaviour and promoting a more acceptable replacement behaviour.
What are EBA and FBA?
400
In behavioural assessment these types of comparisons are generally considered irrelevant and inappropriate.
What are Normative Comparisons?
400
When using this method of assessment, a prompt (e.g., beeper) is used to cue a client to describe the thoughts he or she was having just before the interruption.
What is Thought Sampling?
400
Noncontinuous classroom assessment that reflects behaviours occurring at a specific point in time.
What is a Momentary Time Sampling procedure?
500
The statistic used to indicate level of agreement between two observers.
What is Kapa?
500
Problem Identification, Problem Analysis, Establishing how a plan might be implemented, and Treatment Evaluation
What are the four stages of problem solving that Kratochwill (1985) suggested interviews should be planned around?
500
This type of observation has particularly low levels of reliability and validity.
What is Narrative Recording?
500
Interpersonal threat and beliefs that positive interpersonal feedback is incorrect are the primary cognitions associated with this disorder.
What is Social Phobia?
500
Research has shown that “alterable” contextual variables can have a bigger impact on pupil performance then “unalterable” outside factors. Give some examples of alterable versus unalterable factors.
Alterable factors include clarity of expectations, academic susses while unalterable factors include SES, ethnicity, home language, neighbourhood stability.
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