Learning/Memory (Interventions based on operant conditioning)

Question 1

Restitution and positive practice are components of which of the following?
A. response cost
B. Premack principle
C. overcorrection
D. differential reinforcement

Answer 1

C. overcorrection

Question 2

To help a client with exhibitionistic disorder stop exposing himself in public, a behavior therapist has the client imagine that he’s at the mall and is starting to unzip his pants. Once that image is clear, the therapist instructs the client to imagine a police officer running up to him, pushing him up against the wall, putting handcuffs on him, and taking him outside the mall to the police car. The therapist is using what intervention?

Answer 2

covert sensitization

Question 3

Response cost is an application of which of the following?
A. positive reinforcement
B. negative reinforcement
C. positive punishment
D. negative punishment

Answer 3

B. negative reinforcement

Question 4

Of the following, which is least likely to be the optimal intervention when a child’s target behavior is harmful to him/herself or others?
A. response cost
B. operant extinction
C. overcorrection
D. differential reinforcement

Answer 4

B. operant extinction

Question 5

Differential reinforcement combines which of the following?
A. negative reinforcement and classical extinction
B. negative reinforcement and stimulus control
C. positive reinforcement and negative punishment
D. positive reinforcement and operant extinction

Answer 5

D. positive reinforcement and operant extinction