Quiz Qs from the HH&C book

Question 1

What should you do if you are in a situation where the demands of the situation exceed your training?

1. Reassure the clients that you are a qualified behavior analyst and continue with the intervention you have in place
2. Tell the clients that you are not qualified to provide treatment and walk away
3. Seek additional training in the area of competence so as to improve your skills
4. Make a referral to another behavior analyst or consultant.
5. The third and fourth answer choices are correct.

Answer 1

The third and fourth answer choices are correct.

Question 2

A learner’s untrained but functionally equivalent responses result in poor performance. This would be an example of:

1. Overgeneralization
2. Faulty stimulus control
3. Undesirable outcome of setting/situation generalization
4. Undesirable outcome of response generalization

Answer 2

Undesirable outcome of response generalization

Question 3

When a target behavior comes under the restricted control of an irrelevant antecedent stimulus, it is an example of:

1. Overgeneralization
2. Faulty stimulus control
3. Undesirable outcome of setting/situation generalization
4. Undesirable outcome of response generalization

Answer 3

Faulty stimulus control

Question 4

A contingency that operates without social mediation is referred to as:

1. Natural contingency
2. Contrived contingency
3. Unplanned contingency
4. Generalized contingency

Answer 4

Natural contingency

Question 5

Choosing only those behaviors to change that will produce reinforcers in the post-intervention environment is referred to as:

1. Teaching loosely
2. Contrived contingency planning
3. Programming common stimuli
4. Relevance-of-behavior rule

Answer 5

Relevance-of-behavior rule

Question 6

Devonia’s one-on-one assistant (see Question 1) decides that he will no longer leave Devonia’s side to interact with other children as an intervention for her problem behavior. This is an example of what form of intervention?

1. Altering antecedent variables
2. Altering consequent variables
3. Teaching alternative behaviors
4. All of these

Answer 6

Altering antecedent variables

Question 7

Which of the following describes a descriptive functional behavior assessment?

1. An analog analysis in which consequences representing those in the natural routine are systematically arranged.
2. Direct observation of behavior made under naturally occurring conditions
3. Structured checklists that caregivers fill out to identify events that correlate with problem behavior
4. Behavior rating scales that caregivers fill out to identify events that correlate with problem behavior

Answer 7

Direct observation of behavior made under naturally occurring conditions

Question 8

Mr. Peterson has been struggling with Arnold, a boy with severe disabilities who hums and rocks back and forth intermittently throughout the day. Mr. Peterson wants to see if these behaviors are associated with any specific activities during the school day so that he can then more closely analyze what occurs during those time periods. Which descriptive assessment method would be the best choice for what he wants to accomplish?

1. Scatterplot recording
2. ABC continuous recording
3. ABC narrative recording
4. Functional analysis

Answer 8

Scatterplot recording

Question 9

Ms. Carmichael is conducting a FBA for Jamal, a boy in her class who runs away from activities and teachers. Ms. Carmichael began by interviewing her teaching assistants and by participating in the conversation with them to define the target behavior and to determine what antecedents and consequences she would watch for during her ABC assessment. Ms. Carmichael completes her ABC assessment and finds that running away from tasks and materials occurs most frequently when difficult tasks are presented and that the most common consequence for this behavior is a teacher chasing after him and returning him to the classroom. Sometimes he is required to return to the task and sometimes he is allowed to do a different activity when he comes back to the classroom. What can be concluded from this descriptive assessment?

1. The problem behavior most likely occurs to get attention from teachers
2. The problem behavior most likely occurs to escape from nonpreferred tasks.
3. The problem behavior most likely occurs to get access to more preferred activities.
4. The function of the problem behavior remains unclear.

Answer 9

The function of the problem behavior remains unclear.

Question 10

After you complete a descriptive assessment, you should write hypothesis statements that reflect your interpretation of the data. Which of the following is a hypothesis statement that contains all of the important elements?

1. Gain peer attention: When Valerie is playing alone on the playground, she bear hugs her peers
2. Gain peer attention: Valerie bear hugs her peers, which is followed by attention in the form of teasing from her peers.
3. When Valerie is playing alone on the playground, she bear hugs her peers, which is followed by attention in the form of teasing from her peers.
4. Gain peer attention: When Valerie is playing alone on the playground, she bear hugs her peers, which is followed by attention in the form of teasing from her peers.

Answer 10

Gain peer attention: When Valerie is playing alone on the playground, she bear hugs her peers, which is followed by attention in the form of teasing from her peers.

Question 11

In DRA, a practitioner:

1. Reinforces a desirable alternative to the problem behavior
2. Places the problem behavior on extinction
3. May choose to reinforce a behavior that is incompatible with the problem behavior
4. All of these are correct

Answer 11

All of these are correct

Question 12

A limitation of DRO is:

1. Other inappropriate behaviors may be reinforced accidentally.
2. One may accidentally punish all responding in the individual.
3. It often produces an extinction burst effect.
4. The effects have been shown to be slow and gradual.

Answer 12

Other inappropriate behaviors may be reinforced accidentally.

Question 13

When is it not appropriate to utilize an extinction procedure?

1. When inappropriate behaviors are likely to be imitated by others
2. When behaviors are harmful to self or others
3. Both of these
4. None of these

Answer 13

Both of these

Question 14

Resistance to extinction is greater when carried out under:

1. Low motivation
2. High motivation
3. No motivation
4. None of these

Answer 14

High motivation

Question 15

The behavior chain interruption strategy (BCIS) can be used to:

1. Teach a complex new behavior chain.
2. Increase speech, picture communication, and microswitch activation.
3. Replace the initial SDs in a chain.
4. All of these.

Answer 15

Increase speech, picture communication, and microswitch activation.

Question 16

Peer models have been used to teach children with disabilities to perform complex tasks using which form of chaining?

1. Forward chaining
2. Backward chaining
3. Total task chaining
4. Backward chaining with leap aheads

Answer 16

Total task chaining

Question 17

Breaking down longer chains into smaller chains and/or skill clusters, teaching each skill cluster, and then chaining each skill cluster is a variation of which form of behavior chaining?

1. Forward chaining
2. Backward chaining
3. Total task chaining
4. Backward chaining with leap aheads

Answer 17

Forward chaining

Question 18

What is a risk of choosing the single-opportunity method of assessment for assessing mastery of a task analysis?

1. You may underestimate the learner’s abilities.
2. You may inadvertently be teaching the individual the behavior during assessment.
3. You may frustrate the learner because of the time consuming nature of this form of assessment.
4. All of these.

Answer 18

You may underestimate the learner’s abilities.

Question 19

A behavior chain with a limited hold means:

1. The number of steps in the chain is limited.
2. The learner must “hold” his/her responses for a specified period of time.
3. The entire chain or steps within the chain must be completed in a given period of time.
4. Accuracy of the performance of steps is not important.

Answer 19

The entire chain or steps within the chain must be completed in a given period of time.