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Conducting several tests of a treatment before writing it in a formal program adheres to which underlying assumption of behavior analysis?
Empiricism
Providing a complete description of one's procedures in a study of classroom management techniques adheres to which dimension of behavior analysis?
Conceptually systematic
Describing behavior program procedures in terms of the basic principles of behavior adheres to which dimension of behavior analysis?
Conceptually systematic
If a behavior analyst states that a behavior 'came out of nowhere,' they are violating the assumption of _____.
Philosophical doubt
Which of the following is NOT considered a dimension of applied behavior analysis according to the source material?
Effective
What is being measured when a behavior analyst records the time it takes for a client to say, 'You’re welcome' after a staff member says, 'Thank you'?
Latency
What is considered the best measure for crying behavior?
Duration
A behavior analyst states, 'It took four attempts, but Johnny completed the puzzle.' Which measure is being used?
Whole interval
A tantrum lasted 14 minutes, started 3 seconds after a demand, and it has been 2 days since the last tantrum. According to the source, what is the latency?
Unknown
Manipulating a student's chair in a classroom to avoid distraction from a window is an example of manipulating a _____.
Context variable
The measure that counts the number of time intervals in which a response occurs continuously for the entire interval is called _____ recording.
Whole-interval recording
In behavior analysis, the dependent variable is usually a measure of _____.
Behavior
In an experiment examining the effects of three types of prompts on compliance, what is the independent variable?
The three types of prompts
In an experiment examining the level of noise on a school bus under baseline, rock music, and classical music conditions, what is the dependent variable?
Time
A caregiver records that a client made their bed after finding it made 30 minutes later, without directly observing the behavior. What data collection method was used?
Permanent product recording
A child losing a star on their star chart for talking out in class is an attempted implementation of a(n) _____ procedure.
Response cost
What does a DRI schedule designed to decrease running around and tapping others involve?
Arranging for the child to earn a reinforcer in the absence of these behaviors.
The process of gradually transferring stimulus control from prompts to other discriminative stimuli is called _____.
Shaping
Requiring a student who threw papers and tipped over chairs to clean up the mess and then sweep and clean the rest of the room is a(n) _____ procedure.
Positive punishment
What is the specific technical name for requiring a student to clean their own mess and then clean the rest of the room as a consequence for disruptive behavior?
Over-correction
Teaching a child to match printed words to pictures, then pictures to objects, and then testing if they can match printed words to objects is known as _____.
Stimulus equivalence
Placing a low-probability request at the end of a series of high-probability requests is a phenomenon known as _____.
The Premack principle
What is the primary purpose of conducting a functional assessment?
To obtain information from which to create a hypothesis statement.
What is the best definition of a behavior's function?
The reinforcers that maintain a behavior.
Alternative appropriate behaviors that serve the same function for an individual must produce the same _____ for that individual.
Reinforcer
What is derived from a descriptive analysis?
A hypothesis
What recording method involves an observer noting everything the client does and says, as well as events before and after the behavior?
ABC recording
According to the source, what does a good behavior analyst always do before authoring a behavior intervention?
Implements the least aversive, most effective punisher.
What are the three essential elements of informed consent?
Capacity, informed, voluntariness
Behavior analytic interventions that effectively change an individual's behavior in a socially important way are said to have _____.
Social validity
Which of the following would not be a type of function of behavior identified during a functional assessment: attention, escape, frustration, or access to tangibles?
Frustration
If a child engages in hand-biting primarily when she is in a room by herself, what is the likely function of the behavior?
Automatic reinforcement
A child is taught the front crawl for swimming and, after a few weeks, also starts doing the breast stroke. What has occurred?
Stimulus generalization
A child is taught to swim in a pool and is later able to do the front crawl in the ocean. What has occurred?
Response generalization
In the context of maintenance, what are the functional arrangements between behavior and environmental events called?
Natural contingencies
A child who learns to say 'red' for a red card also says 'red' for an orange card. This is called _____.
Stimulus generalization
Which schedule of reinforcement is most effective at maintaining behaviors?
Intermittent reinforcement
Which strategy is LEAST likely to promote generalization of workshop cleaning skills to a real job?
Make the workshop distinctive from the cleaning crew and then gradually make it more like it.
A client finds touch aversive. When off-task, a warning count to 10 is given, after which they are touched. If the client gets back on task during the counting, this is an example of _____.
Avoidance
A client finds touch aversive. If they are touched for being off-task and then return to the task to stop the touching, this is an example of _____.
Escape
A client becomes aggressive when they have not eaten for several hours. This demonstrates the effect of a(n) _____.
Establishing operation
Ignoring a tantrum that you believe is attention-seeking until it ceases, resulting in a decrease over time, is an example of _____.
Positive punishment
Tokens are generally referred to as what type of reinforcers?
Conditioned reinforcers
In self-control, where does the ultimate control lie, making 'self-control' a misnomer?
In the environment
What is the best staff training package among the given options?
Explanations of each procedure are given, then the supervisor demonstrates; staff are given opportunities to practice with feedback.
When identifying ultimate outcomes for a client, which of the following is NOT an appropriate consideration?
The convenience of staff with whom the client works.
Non-contingent reinforcement is what type of intervention?
Antecedent intervention
A teacher says, 'If everyone gets 100% on their spelling test, I will turn cartwheels.' What type of group contingency is this?
Interdependent group contingency
A teacher says she will draw one name, and if that person has their homework, everyone gets extra recess. What type of group contingency is this?
Dependent group contingency
How is self-management best defined?
The personal application of behavior change tactics that produces a desired change in behavior.