G02 Use Interventions Based on Motivating Operations & Discriminative Stimuli Part 1

Question 1

When a student is bored, he engages in stereotypic hand-flapping. One antecedent strategy would be to

Answer 1

Instruct the student at the start of class to read as soon as he finishes his assignment.

Question 2

A boy teases the girl in front of him by pulling her hair. Later, the teacher permanently moves the boy to a different desk. this best exemplifies

Answer 2

Removing the Sd

Question 3

Antecedent strategies that are useful in preventing problem behaviors include

Answer 3

All the above:

Greeting students when they arrive.
Providing reinforcing events during or prior to less-preferred activities.
Reducing response demand.
Modeling appropriate behavior
Noncontingent reinforcement.
Monitoring behavior more often

Question 4

An elderly lady with dementia begins to belittle others in the area when she is not kept busy. An appropriate antecedent strategy would be to

Answer 4

Schedule frequent preferred activities, such as looking at pictures of family members.

Question 5

Antecedent behavior change strategies include

Answer 5

Contriving EOs for desired behavior
Eliminating Sds for the problem behaviors.
Providing Sds for desirable alternative behaviors.
Enhancing EOs for desirable alternative behaviors.
Increasing response effort for undesired behavior.
Contriving EOs for desired behavior.
Reducing response effort for desired behavior.
Presenting Sds for desired behavior

Question 6

A dieter tends to reach for a cookie when he walks by the cookie jar. An appropriate antecedent strategy would be for him to

Answer 6

All the above:
Put the cookie jar out of sight.
Put the cookie jar in a hard to reach place.
Write two sentences on the effects of junk food before taking a cookie.

Question 7

A student tends to pay less attention when peers are playing a favorite game in the back of the room. Reducing the sound of the game and thus increasing attending would most likely be an example of

Answer 7

Altering motivating operations

Question 8

A basketball player begins to sweat when he sees his opponent’s home court. To reduce these behaviors, he might try

Answer 8

Spending more time on the opponent’s home court

Question 9

Parents learn that their child is visiting pornographic web sites. An appropriate antecedent strategy would be to

Answer 9

Install a program that removes all links to pornographic web sites

Question 10

A toddler aggresses toward his peers. An appropriate antecedent strategy would be to

Answer 10

Put more toys in the area

Question 11

A dieter takes an alternative route to work so that he doesn’t pass the donut shop. This is an example of

Answer 11

Removing the Sd.