G. Behavior Change Procedures

Question 1

Reinforcing a lack of behavior During or at specific times.

Head hitting every five minutes. For every five minutes head hitting doesn’t occur reinforcement is provided.

Answer 1

DRO

Question 2

Reinforcing incompatible behavior for a replacement behavior that does not share topographical features as a target behavior… Does not look the same.

Example: The target behavior is staying seated instead of running around class

Answer 2

DRI

Question 3

A disadvantage of this DR procedure is that all other behaviors that occur may also be reinforced

Answer 3

DRO

Question 4

When the target behavior has not occurred during a certain time or interval. Whether specified or not.

Answer 4

DRO

Question 5

If you wanted to teach a replacement behavior to your client that did not share any topographical features as the target behavior, the best procedure to use would be?

Ex: Hands in pocket instead of nose picking.

Answer 5

DRI

Question 6

This would not be considered an antecedent intervention since it is contingent on the response

Answer 6

DRA

Question 7

This type of procedure involves putting an undesired behavior on extinction, while simultaneously giving reinforcement to an appropriate behavior.

Ex: A child 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.

Answer 7

DRA

Question 8

Replacement behavior can occur at the same time as the target behavior.

Example: Karen screams the answer, instead of raising her hand. She’s only reinforced when she raises her hand. Karen can scream and raise her hand at the same time

Answer 8

DRA

Question 9

Reinforcement occurs in the absence of problem/target behavior during or at specific times.

Example: Julie pulls hair. If Julie doesn’t pull hair for three minutes she is reinforced.

Answer 9

DRO

Question 10

Reinforcing functional communication in place of maladaptive behavior.

Example: you teach your client to ask for break instead of eloping

Answer 10

FCT

Question 11

Used to reduce, decrease or lessen the frequency or rate of a behavior but not eliminate it entirely. This is typically reserved for behaviors that are socially acceptable but may occur to often. Reinforcement is delivered a) if a behavior occurs below predetermined criteria.

When the bx itself is appropriate but happens too often and you want to shorten the time (IRT) between responses.

Ex: Eating too fast, talking too fast, or greeting peers too often

Answer 11

DRL

Question 12

DR that provides reinforcement for behaviors that are emitted at or above a preestablished rate. includes a pre-set interval of time and response or that is greater than a gradually increasing criteria based on the individuals performance and previous intervals.

ex: more than three responses per five minutes, more than five responses per five minutes, more than eight responses per five minutes

Answer 12

DRH

Question 13

Helps to increase behavior that the individual displays too infrequently. You are physically capable of studying for your BCBA exam but you tend to study very infrequently. So you decide to use a DR on your studying behavior. You currently study 3 hours per week but you want to study 7 hours per week so you set your initial interval for 5 hours per week and once you have accomplished this you set your next interval for 7 hours per week. you have finally reached your studying goal.

Answer 13

DRH

Question 14

DR that provides reinforcement for Higher rates of behavior. Reinforce if the behavior happens more than a specified amount after a set interval. Example: if your client answers more than 10 math problems within five minutes, they earn a cookie.

Answer 14

DRH

Question 15

A schedule of reinforcement where reinforcement is only delivered if the behavior occurs less than a preset criteria during a preset interval. This criterion is gradually decreased across time intervals based on the individual’s performance. This schedule is used to decrease problem behavior or eliminate it all together. 

Keywords: fewer than or less than a certain number of pre-determined responses per interval, per minute, per hour, per day, per month, per year.

Ex: reducing off-task talking

Answer 15

DRD

Question 16

Helps decrease behavior that the individual displays too frequently but should be maintained in the learner’s repertoire.

Example: if Timmy gets up less than three times during class, he gets a 10-minute break on the computer.

Answer 16

DRL

Question 17

Fewer than five responses per five minutes, fewer than four responses per five minutes, fewer than three responses per five minutes are examples of.

Example… Client eats too fast. She would earn reinforcement for only taking 10 bites of food in 5 minutes.

Answer 17

DRD

Question 18

Delivering the reinforcer only contingent upon an appropriate response or desirable alternative to the problem behavior And withholding reinforcement for instances of the problem behavior.

Answer 18

DRA

Question 19

Can be an effective means for reducing behaviors that are situationally appropriate yet occur too high of a rate.

Ex: asking for help, raising a hand to answer questions, eating, completing homework

Answer 19

DRL

Question 20

These two types of DR teach and reinforce replacement behaviors.

Answer 20

DRI and DRA

Question 21

Used as a control condition, with this type of DR, the potential reinforcer is presented contingent on occurrences of a desirable alternative to the target behavior

Answer 21

DRA

Question 22

Jake is trying to reduce how much he drinks while at weddings. He typically drinks four drinks per hour. Tomorrow he plans to drink only two drinks per hour. If he succeeds in drinking only two drinks per hour, he will receive reinforcement, but if he drinks more than two he will receive no reinforcement. What type of intervention is this?

Answer 22

DRD

Question 23

A procedure in which stimuli with known reinforcing properties are presented on fixed time or variable time schedules completely independent of behavior and often used as an antecedent intervention to reduce problem behavior

Answer 23

NCR

Question 24

Persistent responding is a limitation of this procedure because it makes achieving a reversal affect more time-consuming than the reversal technique with extinction

Answer 24

NCR

Question 25

This type of reinforcement often produces persistent responding, perhaps because of accidental reinforcement that sometimes occurs with a response independent schedule or because similar EO’s in antecedent stimulus conditions evoke the persistent responding

Answer 25

NCR

Question 26

This type of reinforcement often produces persistent responding perhaps because of accidental reinforcement that sometimes occurs with a response-independent schedule or because similar EOs in antecedent stimulus conditions evoke the persistent responding

Answer 26

NCR

Question 27

The trainer completes all the steps except the last one then the last two etc. until the learner completes all steps independently. Hint: puzzles

Answer 27

Backward chain