Raya
Presenting the SD and waiting 5 seconds before presenting the prompt is called ___.
A. prompt delay
B. stimulus fading
C. least-to-most prompting
D. most-to-least prompting
A. prompt delay
A/an _______ is a measurable aspect of behaviour.
A. action
B. speech
C. Dimension
D. Overt behaviour
C. Dimension
Which of the following is NOT a dimension of behaviour:
A. Spontaneity
B. Duration
C. Frequency
D. Latency
A. Spontaneity
During the extinction of a(n) __ behaviour, the aversive stimulus is no longer removed after the behaviour.
C. negatively reinforced
A nurse checked the pulse rate of the patient by placing two fingers on the patient’s wrist. This is an example of ___ recording.
A coach is providing a ___ prompt when he holds the badminton racquet in the player’s hands and swings it with the player to show him or her how to swing the racquet.
A. verbal
B. gestural
C. physical
D. modeling
C. physical
Jimmy opens his laptop and presses the “power” button but it does not switch on so he presses the button a few more times, tries different keys, opens and shuts it again and again and slams the keys on the keyboard, hoping it will start. This is an example of:
A. Aggression
B. Extinction burst
C. Poor self-control
D. Irritation
B. Extinction burst
Another name for covert behaviour is:
A. Private events
B. Personal events
C. Hidden events
D. Individual events
B. Personal events
When a behavior is ___________ reinforced, it decreases rapidly once the reinforcement is terminated.
A. Intermittently
B. Continuously
C. Positively
D. Negatively
B. Continuously
If you want to ___ a target behavior, you can provide punishers for the behavior or eliminate reinforcers for the behavior.
A. manage
B. prompt
C. increase
D. decrease
D. decrease
In ___________, one component of the behavioural chain is taught at a time using prompting and fading, starting with the last component.
A. Total task presentation
B. Graduated guidance
C. Backward chaining
D. Forward chaining
C. Backward chaining
_________ is the natural tendency for the behavior to occur again in situations that are similar to those in which it occurred and was reinforced before extinction.
A. Spontaneous learning
B. Spontaneous recovery
C. Immediate recall
D. Prompting
B. Spontaneous recovery
Jenny cries at every mealtime saying “I won’t eat the veggies!”. Her parents ignore this tantrum thinking it will stop eventually, but it hasn’t. What is going wrong?
A. This can only be stopped with punishment
B. The parents are reinforcing her escape behaviour
C. Jenny is doing this for attention
D. This is an extinction burst
B. The parents are reinforcing her escape behaviour
The _________ of a behavior are the stimuli, events, situations, or circumstances that are present when it occurs or were present immediately before the behavior.
A. Causes
B. Antecedents
C. Consequences
D. Dimensions
B. Antecedents
Desirable behaviour will occur in all relevant situations outside the training situation if the behaviour is ___ in those situations.
A. generalized
B. transferred
C. analyzed
D. programmed
A. generalized
Behavioural skills training can be used in several instances. Which of these is not the right place to use BST?
A. Teaching assertiveness
B. Teaching how to think positive thoughts
C. Teaching self defence
D. Teaching manners
B. Teaching how to think positive thoughts
Charlie throws a tantrum during bedtime every night, sometimes crying, screaming and even hitting his head against the wall until his mother pays attention to him. A psychologist suggested that she stop paying attention to this tantrum and ignore it completely. Over time, Charlie’s tantrums gradually reduced until they stopped occurring. What was the psychologist’s suggesting based on?
A. Extinction
B. Tough love
C. Punishment
D. Negative reinforcement
A. Extinction
In the __ procedure, pictures of each step in the task analysis are used to guide the learner’s behavior.
A. picture prompt
B. forward chaining
C. backward chaining
D. task analysis
A. picture prompt
In the __ procedure, you prompt the learner to engage in the entire chain of behavior from start to finish in each trial.
A. forward chaining
B. backward chaining
C. graduated guidance
D. total task presentation
D. total task presentation
Jane has a habit of buying snacks from the roadside hawker stalls whenever she has spare cash with her. To avoid that, Jane stops bringing cash to school with her. This is an example of:
B. eliminating the SD.
You want to teach a child the basic life skill of washing dishes with the help of chaining. Arrange the steps in the correct order:
A. Putting the dish back on the dish rack
B. Wetting the dish
C. Adding soap to the sponge
D. Washing the suds off the dish
E. Scrubbing the dish
F. Turning the tap on
G. Turning the tap off
a) A, B, C, E, F, D, G
b) F, B, C, E, D, G, A
c) G, F, E, D, B, C, A
d) B, C, D, E, F, A, G
b) F, B, C, E, D, G, A
To ensure that she sticks with her diet plan, Shelley sets aside one day in a week to prepare all her healthy meals for the week which she can reach for and reheat whenever she feels hungry. This is an example of:
A. decreasing response effort.
Dorothy is learning how to eat on her own using a spoon. Every time she finishes swallowing her porridge, her mum would scoop the porridge again and hands her the spoon with the porridge to feed herself. Her mum is using __ to teach Dorothy.
A. forward chaining
B. backward chaining
C. graduated guidance
D. total task presentation
B. backward chaining
To attract more audiences, some billboards will use flashing lights to increase its viewing. This is an illustration of ___.
A. Shaping
B. Positive reinforcement
C. Stimulus prompting
D. Response prompting
C. Stimulus prompting
Choose the correct order of prompting from least intrusive to the most intrusive.
A. Verbal > Modeling > Gestural > Physical
B. Physical > Gestural > Modeling > Verbal
C. Verbal > Gestural > Modeling > Physical
D. Gestural > Verbal > Modeling > Physical
C. Verbal > Gestural > Modeling > Physical