H05 Plan for Possible Unwanted Effects When Using Reinforcement, Extinction, and Punishment Part 1

Question 1

A student in a special ed class… to prevent aggression, the teacher could

Answer 1

Allow him to bank his game time to play for longer duration later

Question 2

A potential problem when using reinforcing stimuli that also function as conditioned elicitors is

Answer 2

Elicited behavior may be incompatible with the target response

Question 3

A potentially undesirable effect of positive reinforcement is

Answer 3

All the above:
A decrease in the target behavior in other settings due to the increase rate of reinforcement in one setting.
Undesirable behavior evoked by delivery of the reinforcer.
An increase in undesirable behaviors in the same functional response class.
Aggression when reinforcement is withheld because the target behavior was not emitted.
Aggression due to competition for limited reinforcement.
A decrease in desirable behaviors in the same functional response class as the target behavior.

Question 4

With respect to an unwanted effect of reinforcement, approaching the agent of reinforcement

Answer 4

Can be problematic if it is excessive or interferes with the development of necessary skills.

Question 5

A child is receiving M&Ms during training… the teacher should

Answer 5

Use a less potent reinforcer or use tokens that are exchanged for M&Ms at the end

Question 6

A speech therapist… the problem is

Answer 6

The reinforcer is eliciting behaviors that are interfering with the target behavior.

Question 7

A child earns time to play computer… this is

Answer 7

Extinction of the child’s keeping-calm behavior caused by an unintentional delay in reinforcement.

Question 8

With respect to unwanted effects of reinforcement, unwanted behaviors may

Answer 8

Increase if they yield the same reinforcer as the target behavior

Question 9

Approaching the reinforcing agent refers to

Answer 9

Approaching the person who will give the reinforcer

Question 10

A potential unwanted effect of reinforcing an alternative behavior to replace undesirable behavior is that

Answer 10

Undesirable behaviors that are members of the same functional response class may be strengthened as well.

Question 11

A potential unwanted effect of using highly preferred items or activities as reinforcers is

Answer 11

A reduced rate of the target behavior because of interfering behavior evoked by the reinforcer.

Question 12

A speech therapist is attempting to teach swallowing. She is using fruit snack as reinforcers, hoping that

Answer 12

The item will elicit behaviors that provide frequent opportunities for the target behavior to occur.

Question 13

A child gets one hour to play computer games after he completes his homework. When the hour is up, the child begs for and gets more time to play. Begging just began with this new contingency.

Answer 13

This illustrates an increase in an undesirable behavior that is a member of the same response class as the behavior being reinforced.

Question 14

An animal trainer… the animal trainer should

Answer 14

Use something else as a reinforcrer such as bits of ground meat

Question 15

A teacher tells her student… if the questioning is not maintained by escape, it is likely

Answer 15

Operant behavior that competes with the target behavior

Question 16

The unwanted effects of negative reinforcement are

Answer 16

Essentially the same as the unwanted effects of punishment

Question 17

When using reinforcement in a behavior change program, aggression may occur

Answer 17

When a reinforcer is withheld because the target behavior was not emitted.

Question 18

Increasing the rate of reinforcement for a particular behavior may

Answer 18

Temporarily decrease appropriate behavior that is part of the same functional response class.