Motivating Operations Flashcards
Brothers are often off task and disruptive when getting ready for school. The parents are busy professionals. What is likely an MO for the behavior problems?
A. CMO for parent attention deprivation
B. UMO of parent attention deprivation
A
The pain from a bee sting…
A. is a CMO-T with respect to accessing bee sting medication
B. is a CMO-R with respect to having bee sting medication applied
A.
A UMO is a CMO-T with respect to stimuli that need to be conditioned as reinforcers. More specifically, the pain alters the value of bee sting medication being applied.
A surrogate CMO would depend on what kind of relationship with an MO?
A. Dependent
Temporal
B
The CMO-R is analogous to the…
A. discriminated avoidance procedure
B. discriminated reinforcement procedure
A
A CMO-R associated with worsening…
A. is a stimulus, the removal of which is an unconditioned reinforcer
B. is a behavior that terminates a warning stimulus
C. is a stimulus, the removal of which is a conditioned reinforcer.
C.
A CMO-R is a learned warning stimulus. A response in its presence prevents the onset of an aversive.
What do reflexive,surrogate, and transitive CMOs have in common?
A. They aquire their properties by altering the value of another stimulus
B. They were originally motivationally neutral
B
A mother uses escape extinction during the morning routine (e.g. dressing, eating) with her disruptive young child. She started rubbing his back and talking to him for the first 5-10 minutes upon waking him just before the routine. The frequency of behavior during the routine decreased. The back rubbing upon waking may have been…
A. a UMO for attention from mother
B. a CMO for attention from mother
B.
Implementing escape extinction for dressing and eating would require the mother to engage in a lot of physical contact with the child. Physical contact is an unconditioned reinforcer and social interaction is a conditioned reinforcer. Back rubbing upon waking could act as a UMO for physical contact from mother during the routine. When back rubbing is paired with talking to the mother, back rubbing could act as a CMO that alters the reinforcing value of social interaction with mother during the routine. Specifically, rubbing the child’s back upon waking is likely to decrease the value of physical interaction (as an unconditioned AO) and social interaction (as a conditioned AO) during the following morning routine. Back rubbing would have to occur after the behavior in order to be a reinforcer or punisher.
You are teaching a hungry child to say “fork.” You place a plate of food in front of her but no fork. With respect to saying “fork,” the food with no fork is…
A. an SD
B. a CMO-T
B
The food with no fork increases the calue of a fork.
You are driving down a stretch of highway approaching a billboard, behind which police often hide to catch speeders. They never sit anywhere else to catch speeders. You are somewhat reckless and unconcerned about your safety, so you typically don’t care about your speed, but you don’t want to get a speeding ticket. As you approach the billboard, you look at your speedometer. With respect to looking at the speedometer, the billboard is
A. a CMO T
B. an SD
C. both an SD and a CMO T
A.
For a stimulus to be an SD, it must be correlated with reinforcement and its presence and also be correlated with no reinforcement and its absence. Looking at the speedometer produces the reinforcer “seeing the speed” in all settings. However, as you near the billboard, the billboard increases the value of seeing the speed registered on the speedometer. The billboard is a stimulus that increases the value of another stimulus. Therefore it is a CMO T
You are driving and see police lights in your rear view mirror. With respect to pulling over, the police lights are…
A. an SD
B. an MO
C. both an SD and MO
B
