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NEW QUESTION 44
Marvell is working on a new case with a student who refuses to attend school. Before deciding on a
treatment plan, Marvell schedules interviews and observation sessions. This is an example of which
assumption of behavior analysis?
- A. empiricism
- B. skepticism
- C. parsimony
- D. determinism
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 45
Marvell is working on a new case with a student who refuses to attend school. Before deciding on a treatment plan, Marvell schedules interviews and observation sessions. This is an example of which assumption of behavior analysis?
- A. empiricism
- B. skepticism
- C. parsimony
- D. determinism
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 46
A behavior analyst is conducting research on the accuracy of a student's responding to written math
problems based on the final answer with no scoring of intermediate calculations. Which is the BEST
method for obtaining accurate inter-observer agreement results?
- A. Researcher scores the student's work and the observer reviews the researcher's scores for accuracy.
- B. Researcher and observer sit together to score the student's work.
- C. The student's scratch paper is scored if researcher and observer do not agree on a response.
- D. Photocopies of the student's work are scored independently by researcher and observer.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 47
When Susan attempts to escape from a task, she exhibits several behaviors, including hitting her head,
stomping her feet, and crying. This is an example of a.
- A. topographical response class.
- B. stimulus class.
- C. functional response class.
- D. respondent class.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 48
Jody had an access-maintained tantrum for 14 minutes and it started 3 seconds after she was told, "No."
It had been 2 days since the previous tantrum. The latency is:
- A. 3 seconds
- B. 14 minutes
- C. 2 days
- D. Unknown
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 49
What is a likely benefit of having trained a client to say both "truck" and "vehicle" in response to your saying "fire engine"? The client will now likely:
- A. point to pictures of trucks or vehicles.
- B. say "truck" when you say "vehicle."
- C. point to a truck when you say "vehicle."
- D. say "fire engine" when you present a picture of it.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 50
The behavior analyst has had good results with an intervention she designed that makes access to video games contingent upon playing with other children. She now wants to compare the effects of differing amounts of video game access time. She should conduct a
- A. changing criterion study.
- B. parametric study.
- C. nonparametric study.
- D. reversal study.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 51
A child with food refusal behaviors accepts one bite out of the ten bites that her caregiver offered. What measure should be used to record this behavior?
- A. latency
- B. trials to criterion
- C. duration
- D. percent of occurrence
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 52
Manipulating a students chair in a classroom setting to avoid distraction fro the window is an example of a
manipulation of a
- A. Confounding variable
- B. Antecedent variable
- C. Ecological variable
- D. Context variable
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 53
A parent reports that her 2-year-old daughter uses a number of stalling techniques to avoid bedtime once she is told to go to bed. What would be a good progress measure for going to bed when told?
- A. compliance
- B. inter-response time
- C. frequency
- D. latency
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 54
Steve is a behavior analyst working with staff members who are not implementing programs on a consistent basis. Staff report that the heavy workload interferes with their ability to run the programs consistently. What should Steve do FIRST to address this problem?
- A. Implement additional training for staff that are not able to perform to criterion.
- B. Revise the daily work schedules and routines, with the assistance of the supervisor, so that potential time conflicts can be avoided.
- C. Begin to assess the staff's daily routine in order to identify any time conflicts that might exist.
- D. Go to the direct supervisor and request that an incentive system be implemented for all staff.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 55
A behavior analyst is measuring the time it takes for a client to say, "You're welcome" after the staff says,
"Thank you." The behavior analyst is measuring __________________.
- A. Frequency
- B. Latency
- C. Duration
- D. Inter-response time
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 56
The matching law states that when responding is reinforced on concurrent VI-20 and VI-50 schedules, the:
- A. proportion of responses across the two alternatives will equal the proportion of reinforcers obtained for those alternatives.
- B. number of responses will match the number of reinforcers obtained.
- C. organism will respond exclusively to the alternative with the highest rate of reinforcement.
- D. proportion of responses for each alternative will become equal over time.
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION 57
When Susan attempts to escape from a task, she exhibits several behaviors, including hitting her head, stomping her feet, and crying. This is an example of A.
- A. topographical response class.
- B. stimulus class.
- C. functional response class.
- D. respondent class.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 58
A __________________ is derived from a descriptive analysis.
- A. Hypotenuse
- B. Hypothesis
- C. Data-driven conclusion
- D. Statement of causation
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 59
A DRI schedule designed to decrease the frequency of running around class and tapping other children on the head involves:
- A. Changing the seating arrangement of the class
- B. Arranging for the child to earn a reinforcer in the absence of these behaviors
- C. Providing a reinforcer contingent on being on task and sitting quietly in his seat
- D. Ensuring the child had breakfast that morning
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 60
When using an alternating treatments design it is important to randomly:
- A. change each criterion level.
- B. order treatment conditions presented during each phase.
- C. select participants from the population of interest.
- D. assign participants to treatment conditions.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION 61
A behavior analyst is working with an adult client, who is deemed competent. There are multiple potential behavior targets that need to be addressed including smoking cigarettes, nail biting, and compulsive hand washing. As a first goal, the behavior analyst wants the client to focus on eliminating smoking but the client would prefer to focus on nail biting. The behavior analyst should.
- A. refer the client to another behavior analyst as there is a discrepancy in goal setting priorities.
- B. convince the client to change their first goal to elimination of smoking.
- C. develop a self-management plan for eliminating nail biting as this is the preference of the client.
- D. develop a self-management plan for eliminating smoking as this behavior poses a serious health risk for the client.
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION 62
An establishing operation is any change in the environment whicH.
- A. alters the effectiveness of some object or event as a contingency-shaped rule and at the same time changes the momentary frequency of the behavior that was previously followed by reinforcement.
- B. momentarily alters the effectiveness of the consequence for a behavior that was previously followed by reinforcement.
- C. alters the effectiveness of some object or event as reinforcement thus momentarily changing the likelihood of behavior that was previously followed by that reinforcer.
- D. alters the timing of a behavior and momentarily alters the frequency of the behavior that was previously followed by reinforcement.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 63
A married couple wants a behavior analyst to assist them in creating a happier home life for their family.
The behavior analyst should.
- A. provide counseling to the couple related to the problems that they identify as most important.
- B. set up contracts between the parents and children that require the parents to reinforce appropriate behavior using things that the children identify as important to them.
- C. explain how behavior analysis could be used to assist the family so that they can make an informed decision about proceeding.
- D. refer the family to another professional, since this type of issue is not amenable to applied behavior analysis.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION 64
To teach Beth to wash her hands, staff trained Beth in all the steps identified in the task analysis in each session. They also introduced prompts in successive levels if Beth did not respond after a two-second waiting period. Which behavior chaining procedure was used in this program?
- A. global
- B. backward
- C. forward
- D. total task
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 65
Speed, magnitude, durability and generality of effect are some of the MOST important
- A. variables that are overlooked by other social sciences in solving problems.
- B. dimensions of behavior that lend themselves to quantification more readily than others.
- C. components of treatment packages used in treating the most severe behavior problems.
- D. variables to consider when selecting reinforcers and punishers.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION 66
A child's behavior is being reinforced on a VR 8 schedule during intensive teaching. During the sessions, the child begins to get out of the chair. In order to address this problem, the behavior analyst should switch to which schedule?
- A. FR 6
- B. FR 8
- C. VR 1
- D. VR 4
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION 67
A teacher is tracking the performance of both math and spelling assignments for each of her 25 students. For feedback purposes, she wishes to display each student's percent correct for both areas using a line graph.
What would be the MOST effective and efficient way to accomplish this?
- A. Prepare two graphs for each student, one for spelling and one for math, because there is no appropriate method for reporting these two content areas together on the same graph.
- B. Prepare a single large graph and display each student's data for the spelling and math areas using unique symbols for each student and for each content area.
- C. Prepare a large graph for spelling and a similar one for math and place on the graphs the average data for the entire class in the two content areas.
- D. Prepare a separate graph for each student and, using a unique symbol for each content area, record the data and connect the similar symbols to create data path lines.
Answer: D
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