Extra Practice Question Flashcards
When Judy when Judy was a child a squirrel bit her period this resulted in Judy having an extreme fear of squirrels in adulthood. Now speaker behavior analysts begin working with Judy to decrease her fear of squirrels. She took Judy to the park where she frequently saw squirrels but was never bitten by 1. What procedure did the behavior analyst Judy to make her no longer fearful of squirrels
a. Respondent conditioning
B. Operant Extinction
C. Operant conditioning
D. Respondent extinction
D. respondent extinction
rational
in respondent extinction the squirrel became a condition punisher because it was paired with the pain of her being bit as a child. The behavior analysts use respondent conditioning to unpair the condition punisher which is the squirrel with the unconditioned punisher which is the pain of being bit the behavior analyst did this too by repeatedly putting Judy in the presence of the squirrel without being fit overtime the squirrel became a neutral stimulus again because it was no longer paired with the pain Judy experience by being bit I want as a child because the answer involves stimulus to stimulus pairing operant conditioning and operant extinction are incorrect.
What is the best course of action a behavior analyst could take when a functional analysis indicate that the behavior is occurring at high rates in all conditions ?
a. Redo The Functional analysis
b. Run an extended alone condition
c. Conduct an indirect assessment instead
d. Discontinue the function analysis since you can conclude that the function of the behavior is automatic reinforcement
B. Run the extended alone condition
Rational
remember a functional analysis is much more accurate at determining a function of a target behavior you would not want to redo the function analysis because the data you have already collected collected is helpful for determining the function.
Teresa learns to brush her teeth at the VA clinic. She brushes her teeth 100% of the time when accident so there. However she does not brush her teeth at home when her parents asked her to. This is most likely due to:
a. poor stimulus generalization
b. poor response generalization
c. poor stimulus discrimination o
d. Poor response discrimination
a. Poor stimulus generalization
Rational
stimulus generalization still miss generalization involves bringing one response under control of multiple stimuli she brushes her teeth when her therapist ax her at the clinic she should also brush her teeth when her parents acts are at home.
Response generalization is incorrect since this would involve teresa learning novel behaviors that result in the same reinforces.
Richard is taught to cross the street when the walk sign illuminates what would be an example of response generalization.
a. Crossing the street after the crossing guards tells him to cross
b riding a bicycle across the street after the walk sign illuminates
c. Across the street if the walk sign does not illuminate due to a power outage
d. None of the above
B-11
B. Riding bicycle across the street after the walk sign illuminates
Rational
riding a bicycle across the street after the walk sign illuminates refers to a learner engaging in an untrained response that results in the same reinforcer as a trained response.
Train to walk across the street. Riding a bike across the street would be a new way for him to cross the street hence response generalization
You are sitting near a campfire when suddenly annoying buds begin to swarm around you you reach into your camp in bag and grab your bug spray and cover yourself with it.
The annoying flying bugs function as an
a. updated effect
b. Motivating operations
c. Discriminative stimulus
d. a Punisher
B-12
b. Motivating operation
Rational
the sensation from the bugs flying near you and on you makes the value of bug spray increase( establishing operation) and increase the likelihood of you engaging in behavior evocative effect.
An experimenter is analyzing the effects of 3 particular interventions on a single behavior of one person. After a steady baseline was achieved, the first intervention was introduced. Steady responding was achieved over 3 days so the experimenter returned to baseline. After 4 days of baseline, the experimenter implemented the second intervention until the data was steady 3 days later and then returned to baseline for 3 days. Then, the experimenter implemented the third intervention, gained steady responding after 6 days, and returned to baseline. Then the experimenter implemented the first intervention again. What kind of experimental design was the experimenter using?
A multiple treatment reversal design
Xavier had a fear of leaving his oven on when he left his home. He would usually step outside to leave and then quickly go back inside to make sure the oven was turned off. He used to do this 2-3 times before actually leaving his home. Xavier implemented a self-management procedure where once he stepped outside of his home, he would punish himself if he went back inside to check on the oven. If Xavier went back inside, he forced himself to do it 20 times in a row, which he found very aversive. This procedure was successful; he no longer goes back into the house to check the oven once he steps outside.
Massed practice
A behavior analyst is working with a child at his school. The child intentionally belches loudly because it typically results in his peers laughing. However, the student doesn’t belch loudly at home. The behavior analyst wants to use an extinction procedure to decrease this loud belching behavior. In addition to training his peers not to laugh when the student belches, what else could the behavior analyst due to decrease this behavior?
Teach the student how to make his peers laugh in a more appropriate manner.
G-15: Rational
Correct Answer:
“Teach the student how to make his peers laugh in a more appropriate manner.” If one response is put on extinction, another behavior in the same response class is likely to increase. Sometimes, this means that a new, inappropriate behavior will replace the extinguished behavior. Therefore, when a behavior is put on extinction, it is essential to teach an appropriate replacement behavior so that the person can continue to access the reinforcing stimulus, but in a more appropriate manner. “Teach the student how to belch quietly” is incorrect. This scenario says he doesn’t belch loudly at home, which shows he has the ability to belch quietly. “Train the teacher to call him up to her desk and reprimand him each time he belches loudly” is also incorrect. This would result in lots of attention for the behavior (and would therefore not be extinction).
A behavior analyst begins working with a client who was previously supported by another behavior analyst. The new behavior analyst should review the records of the previous behavior analyst to:
find out which intervention techniques worked well in the past.
F-1 Rational
Correct Answer: “to find out which intervention techniques worked well in the past.” This is the only correct answer for this question.
Reviewing records from the previous behavior analyst will not necessarily identify which interventions will and will not work (e.g., functions of behavior may change, skill levels of behavior analysts are different, support staff’s abilities to correctly run a behavior plan vary). All of these factors play a role in determining if a previously successful intervention will still be successful or if a previously unsuccessful intervention will now be successful. A behavior analyst can review the records to determine what worked well in the past, but should not necessarily rule out any interventions that did not work and should not necessarily continue a previously successful intervention, because the environmental factors that changed over time may have changed the potential effectiveness of an intervention.
You are tracking the number of homework assignments you complete throughout the entire year, during 1-hour study sessions. The study sessions occur every day and you started attending them 10 days ago. Select the cumulative record that could display the data you have been collecting.
Correct Answer: “A”.
“A” is an example of a cumulative record that could be used to track the total amount of homework assignments you have completed during your study sessions.
“B” is incorrect since the question never mentioned tracking a baseline. “C” and “D” are incorrect since cumulative records will never show data decreasing.
_________________ are staff trainings that require the learner to perform the skill. ___________________ are staff trainings that require the learner to have a certain amount of mastery of the skill.
Correct Answer: “Performance-based trainings; Competency-based trainings.”
Competency based trainings require that you demonstrate competency of the materials being taught. Performance-based trainings require the learner to perform the skills but do not necessarily show competency.
Albert has a dog named, Buster. One day, Albert was driving his pickup truck and Buster was sitting in the passenger seat. Albert turned on his blinker and then took a sharp turn. Buster accidentally bumped his head on the dashboard. Now, whenever Buster hears Albert turn on the turn signal, he lays down on the floor board and shakes/whines. In this scenario, the sound of the blinker is:
B:8
Correct Answer: “a conditioned punisher.”
The sound of the blinker was paired with physical pain (an unconditioned punisher). The sound of the blinker took the eliciting properties of the physical pain and Buster whined/shook uncontrollably when he heard the blinker. Therefore, it became a conditioned (learned) punisher.
Since the blinker noise was not always a punisher, it is not an unconditioned (unlearned) punisher. The blinker noise did not become a reinforcer.
Finally, the blinker noise was not a pairing procedure. The wording is tricky with this incorrect answer choice. Essentially, the blinker noise became a conditioned punisher as the result of a pairing procedure (but the blinker noise was not a pairing procedure in and of itself.)
Which functional behavior assessment procedure involves marking whether or not a particular antecedent condition occurs during an observation, independent of whether the target behavior occurs or not?
Correct Answer: “ABC Continuous Recording.”
ABC continuous recording involves the observer documenting every time a particular antecedent (AKA environmental event) occurs. The observer also documents when the target behavior occurs and which antecedents and conditions occur with the target behavior. This will help determine which environmental events occur around the time the target behavior occurs and which environmental events occur without evoking the target behavior.
“Contingent escape conditions” is incorrect since this is a condition of a functional analysis where escape is provided contingent upon the target behavior. “ABC Narrative recording” is incorrect because the antecedents and consequences are recorded only when the target behavior occurs. “Scatterplots” is incorrect because these simply record the target response and not the antecedents and consequences.
How often should case notes and data be updated for a client’s file?
Ongoing. Case notes, data, and correspondence should populate file after the action.
Behavior analysts appropriately document their professional work in order to facilitate provision of services later by them or by other professionals, to ensure accountability, and to meet other requirements of organizations or the law.
Thiics Code 2.7 Task E-3
When using a new intervention to teach a child to read, why shouldn’t you use a reversal experimental design?
D:5
Correct Answer: “Reversing an intervention that targets reading will not result in a decrease in reading skills during the baseline phases and therefore will not demonstrate experimental control.” Since reading is a skill that you cannot necessarily “unlearn,” the subject’s reading skills would not diminish in the baseline phases and it would therefore not demonstrate experimental control. Since a reversal design in this case would not result in a reduction in reading skills, this experimental design would not necessarily be unethical (but it would not be best practice). Finally, reading in reverse is not what a reversal design is, and reading in reverse does not cause dyslexia.
