B12 Define & Provide Examples of MOs Part 2

Question 1

Parents of a 3-year-old child ask for your help to reduce supper-time problem behavior. The child frequently leaves the table to play with toys or crawls into the father’s lap for attention. As part of the intervention you may

Answer 1

All the above:
Use father attention as a reinforcer for in-seat and eating behavior of the child.
Increase the UMO for eating by reducing the child’s afternoon snack.
Reduce the CMO for attention from father by having NCR from father before dinner.

Question 2

A person scuba diving sees the tank pressure gauge is below the minimum value allowed and swims to the surface. With respect to swimming to the surface, seeing the tank pressure gauge

Answer 2

Is a CMO-R for swimming to the surface

Question 3

Brothers (ages 5 and 7) are often off-task and disruptive when getting ready for school. The parents are busy professional. What is a likely MO for the behavior problems?

Answer 3

A CMO of parent attention deprivation

Question 4

The pain from a bee sting

Answer 4

Is a CMO-T with respect to having bee sting medication applied

Question 5

What do reflexive, surrogate, and transitive CMOs have in common?

Answer 5

They originally were motivationally neutral

Question 6

The pain from a bee sting

Answer 6

All the above:
Is a UMO for having bee sting medication applied.
Alters the value of having bee sting medication applied
Has an evocative effect on applying bee sting medication.

Question 7

Which kind of CMO acquires its properties by altering the value of another stimulus?

Answer 7

Transitive

Question 8

Which kind of CMO acquires its properties by being paired with another MO?

Answer 8

Surrogate

Question 9

The CMO-R is analogous to the

Answer 9

Discriminated avoidance procedure

Question 10

You are sitting on a bus when an elderly lady sitting beside you drops somethings that lands immediately in front of you. You pick up the item and hand it to the lady. Your behavior is likely occassioned

Answer 10

By a CMO-R in that the item on the floor is like a warning stimulus indicating that a delay in responding is likely to be followed by aversive social events.

Question 11

Extra play time is used as a reinforcer for on-task behavior. A child with moderate ASD does not complete his tasks to earn the play time. During free play time, he seldom engages in available activities or toy play. This contingency may not be effective for the child because

Answer 11

There is no CMO for toy play

Question 12

A mother uses escape extinction… the back rubbing upon waking may have been

Answer 12

A CMO for attention from mother

Question 13

A student of yours may soon reach an academic criterion… Which is a CMO-R for your refocusing of the student?

Answer 13

The jumping and flapping

Question 14

A mother uses escape extinction… the back rubbing at completion of tasks may have been

Answer 14

A reinforcer for morning routine behaviors

Question 15

Brothers (ages 5 and 7) are often off-task and disruptive in church. The parents must prompt them repeatedly to sit still and be quiet. What is a likely MO for behavior problems?

Answer 15

A UMO of activity deprivation

Question 16

CMOs

Answer 16

All the above:
Have value-altering effects.
Result from a learning history.
Have behavior-altering effects

Question 17

Which kind of CMO acquires its properties by systematically preceding worsening/improvement?

Answer 17

Reflexive

Question 18

CMOs

Answer 18

Result from a learning history.

Question 19

Empirical support for the CMO-S is

Answer 19

Weak

Question 20

A CMO-R associated with worsening

Answer 20

Is a stimulus, the removal of which is a conditioned reinforcer

Question 21

When the speech therapist enters the room, the student with whom he would be working begins to tantrum, effectively delaying the onset of the therapy session. The speech therapist walking into the room

Answer 21

A CMO-R

Question 22

A surrogate CMO would depend on what kind of relationship with an MO?

Answer 22

Temporal

Question 23

Parents of a 3-year-old child ask for your help to reduce supper-time problem behavior. The child frequently leaves the table to play with toys or crawls into the father’s lap for attention. As part of the intervention you may

Answer 23

Increase the UMO for eating by reducing the child’s afternoon snack

Question 24

During academic task time, a child often screams. A second child in the classroom exhibits covering of his ears with his hands. What AO may be effective in reducing the covering of ears behavior?

Answer 24

Eliminate or reduce the screaming of the first child