Reinforcement and Punishment
Jake’s dad reprimands him for not cleaning his dishes after dinner. The next day, Jake cleans his dishes, and his father immediately stops yelling. Jake is more likely to clean his dishes in the future. This is an example of:
What is negative reinforcement?
If a Behavior Technician measured the length of time that it took Andrew to respond to someone calling him, she would be measuring the...
What is Latency?
Child A has a problem behavior of mouthing non-food items (toys, pennies, fingers, etc) to gain sensory stimulation. Every time child A attempts to place a non-food item in her mouth, you block this behavior and redirect her to a sensory chewie toy. As child A places the chewie in her mouth, you provide verbal praise.
What is a DRA?
What are the 4 functions of behavior?
What is Access, Attention, Escape, and Automatic
What is having two different relationships with one client or client family?
What is a multiple relationship?
While he is at a meeting, Rubin tells a joke, and everybody laughs. Now he is at another meeting, and is thinking about telling another joke he heard. Everybody laughing at his joke at the first party is a
A) Negative, reinforcer
B) Negative, punisher
C) Positive, Punisher
D) Positive, reinforcer
What is a positive reinforcer?
A ______________ is an employee who is required by the state to inform a designated investigator of any suspected, witnessed, or alleged abuse or neglect.
What is Mandatory reporter?
A child bites their fingernails, the ABA therapist rewards them for every 10-second interval that they do not engage in this behavior.
What is DRO?
Reinforcement provided every 10 minutes that behavior occurs.
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Victoria is working with her client when her father informs her that he does not want her to implement natural environment teaching (NET), even though it is written in the skill acquisition plan. The father wants her only to use discrete trial training at the table. What should Victoria do in this scenario?
What is inform the father that you will immediately notify their child’s BCBA and the BCBA will be in contact with them?
Olivia complains about a headache at work, and her boss gives the best assignment to someone else. She does not tell anyone the next time she has a headache.
What is negative punishment?
John is recording data on aggression by counting the number of scratches left on his body after a session. What kind of measurement is this?
What is Permanent product recording?
Child B has a problem behavior of elopement from the work table to escape a demand. When child B attempts to stand up at the work table, you physically prompt her to sit down and immediately hand her an “I want a break” card. When child B gives the card back to you, you provide praise and allow child B a short break.
What is a DRA?
Enviromental variables that temporarily alter the value of other stimuli objects, or events as reinforcers and increase or decrease the behaviors that result from those stimuli
What is Motivating Operation?
Which of the following is part of the RBT ethical code?
a)Be compassionate for the less fortunate
b)Be truthful and honest
c) Resolve all issues formally
d)If there is an issue, file a formal complaint immediately
What is truthful and honest?
You are bitten by a mosquito. The bite starts to itch, so you scratch it.
What is negative reinforcement?
When you observed Sally, she kicked 7 times. Your observation was from 1 pm to 3 pm. Sally's kicking rate per hour is:
3.5 per hour
For the students who work on their book reports quietly (refrain from talking to their neighbors) for 30 minutes, they will get to attend the ice cream social at the end of the day.
What is a DRO?
Your favorite ice cream shop offers punch cards where each purchase earns you one punch. After 5 punches, you get a free scoop of ice cream. What schedule of reinforcement does this exemplify?
What is a fixed ratio schedule?
Tilda finished her session after being supervised by her BCBA. During the session, she recorded data on a paper data collection sheet. While she was cleaning up, she spilled a cup of coffee all over her data sheet, making it completely illegible.
What should Tilda do? Her company has strict policies regarding staff who fail to properly enter data at the end of a shift!
A) Tilda should not record any data for that session - that would be unethical. No further action (such as contacting her supervisor) is necessary - if a supervisor sees no data collected, they automatically know that coffee was spilled on the paper data sheet due to their experience with coffee and paper in the past.
B) Tilda should try her best to estimate the client's performance on each skill target. After all, it wasn't that long ago - she can probably remember everything alright.
C) Tilda should notify her supervisor of the mishap and try to prevent such a fiasco in the future - perhaps by using mechanical or digital data collection systems.
D) Tilda should submit the coffee-stained paper data sheet to her supervisor during the next supervision session and resign.
What is Tilda should notify her supervisor of the mishap and try to prevent such a fiasco in the future - perhaps by using mechanical or digital data collection systems.
Describe the difference between positive punishment and negative punishment.
Positive punishment involves the presentation of an aversive stimulus following a behavior, while negative punishment involves the removal of a reinforcing stimulus following a behavior.
You are teaching Amanda to tie her shoe. You give her instructions "tie your shoe" and let her independently pull the laces tight. You tell her to go take a break, after she does this independently. What teaching strategy are you using?
What is Forward Chaining?
Gerald put his head down on his desk whenever given an academic task. However, he worked for long periods of time on drawing and coloring tasks. The teacher put the following plan into effect: whenever Gerald worked for 5 min on an academic task, the teacher praised him and allowed him to draw or color for 5 min. If he put his head down, she did not give him a break from the task and praised the rest of the class for working so hard. Over time, Gerald began to work longer on academic tasks until he worked for about 30 min at a time.
What Is a DRI?
It is okay to work for a close family member as long as _____________
There is no time where it is appropriate to work for a close family member
A client gives you a bottle opener from their birthday party. What does the ethical code say you should do?
What is Politely decline and explain to them/ their parents the nature of your professional relationship?