Reinforcement
Intervention Effectiveness & Generalization
Stimuli
Verbal Behavior
Fading and Shaping
100

When the teacher looked at Mike, she reinforced him for not having his thumb in his mouth.  This is an example of:

what is DRO

100

Refers to the program being implemented as planned

what is treatment integrity 

100

When a group of stimuli all evokes the same response (for example, when one sees a picture of a Border collie, a Doberman pinscher, and a Labrador retriever, one says "that's a dog"), the group of stimuli is referred to as:

what is a stimulus class

100

Verbally requesting an item is called a(n):

what is a mand 

100

Fading is the gradual removal of:

Prompts

200

An artificial reinforcement that needs to be carefully designed and implemented after more natural and /or simpler methods have been considered

What is token system 
200

instruction, modeling, rehearsal and feedback 

what is BST

200

In the past, a teacher has reinforced children for working quietly and independently after she announces “Pooh Bear Time to Hibernate.”  Now when she wants to set the occasion for quiet independent study she says, “Pooh Bear Time to Hibernate.”  This statement serves as a:

What is discriminative stimulus 

200

Which verbal operant has a nonverbal stimulus as the antecedent and generalized conditioned social reinforcement as the consequence

what is a tact 

200

A teacher is trying to get John to write his name.  First, she provides him with the letters J-O-H and he fills in the last letter.  Then she provides J-O and he fills in the last two letters.  Then J is provided and he provides the last three letters, and finally he writes his name himself.  This is an example of:

what is Backward chaining

300

A parent is teaching her child to play in the backyard by slapping the child every time he steps in the front yard.  Over a week’s period of time the child is stepping into the front yard more than previously.

What is Positive Reinforcement 

300

 imitation of unlearned behavior

Generalized imitation 

300

An SDp is the discriminative signal for:

What is punishment 

300

The antecedent that functionally controls the mand is the:

What is MO

300

Reinforcing existing behaviors one by one until they form a complex behavioral chain.

what is shaping 

400

Quickly helping a change agent to decrease challenging behavior is what type of reinforcement

what is negative reinforcement 

400

The ability to respond to similar stimuli or situations that were not explicitly taught.

what is stimulus generalization 

400

Physically dissimilar stimuli are treated as equivalent to one another

what is stimulus equivalence 

400

Each link in a behavioral chain serves as:



what is reinforcer for the behavior it follows & an SD for the behavior it proceeds

500

What is the removal of previously reinforced behavior

what is extinction 

500

The ability to produce different but functionally equivalent responses to the same stimulus.

what is response generalization 

500

When an individual’s particular behavior is evoked by a narrower and narrower range of specific stimuli, ______________ can be said to have occurred.

What is discrimination