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1
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responses undergoing extinction often what?

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decrease because reinforcement is no longer provided.

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2
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extinction is what?

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more rapid where constant reinforcement has been used to develop the behavior.

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3
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accidental reinforcement is what?

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all of these.

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4
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the reinforcer that sustains the behavior can be what?

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tested by withholding various “reinforcers”

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5
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extinction can what?

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decrease and eliminate behaviors.

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6
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extinction burst involves what?

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a temporary increase in the response at the beginning of extinction.

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7
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the temporary recurrence of a non reinforced response during extinction is what?

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spontaneous recovery.

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8
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a situation where reinforcement is discontinued is what?

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all of these.

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9
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why combine extinction with positive reinforcement?

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a and b.

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10
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anxiety is difficult to extinguish because

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people avoid the anxiety-producing situation.

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11
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one of the probe measures in the van houten bicycle helmet use study was what?

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whether students removed their helmets after leaving the school.

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12
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prompts are most effective when what?

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they specify the precise behaviors to be performed.

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13
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a contingency contract does what?

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specifies the relationship between behaviors and their consequences.

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14
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where clients are encouraged to engage in the initial steps of a response, this is what?

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response priming.

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15
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reinforcer sampling appear to what?

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increase utilization of positive reinforcers.

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16
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when behavior of one person can be altered by providing reinforcing consequences to others, this is called what?

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vicarious reinforcement.

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17
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what is/are the major methods of using the group in group-based programs?

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all of these.

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18
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consequence sharing is particularly useful in situations where what?

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there is a need to focus one the behavior of one or a few persons.

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19
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the good behavior game is a team-based program that what?

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uses response cost if any team member engages in a disruptive behavior.

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20
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lottery-based program are often used to what?

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maximize the amount of the behavior generated by a small number of rewards.

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21
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why did cunningham use goal setting, task clarification, and feedback to increase the use of the neutral zone?

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to avoid needle sticks.

22
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levy used tag teach to improve what?

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tying suture knots.

23
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blank can refer to changes that carry over to other situations, time periods, or settings than those in which the behavioral program was implemented.

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generalization.

24
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changes that extend overtime after the program is terminated usually are referred to as blank maintenance or resistance to extinction.

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response maintenance.

25
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behavior may be maintained after reinforcers are withdrawn because of what?

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the patient has changed.

26
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a blank trap refers to the notion that once a client’s behavior is developed, it should be “trapped” into the system of reinforcers in the environment.

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behavioral.

27
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programming of naturally occurring reinforcers has been used successfully in many programs that are concerned with what?

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a and b.

28
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the purpose of using different levels in a program such as a token economy is to develop blank levels of performance overtime and to reduce the highly structured contingencies that maintain performance.

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highly.

29
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introducing a broad range of stimuli into training is a strategy referred to as what?

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training the general case.

30
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to maximize the likelihood of transfer you should what?

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-

31
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one factor that appears to be related to response maintenance is what?

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duration of the program.

32
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gallery, meredith, and glenn found that what?

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both groups did equally well.

33
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when procedures are applied to alter one’s own behavior, they are referred to as what?

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self-control and self-management techniques.

34
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in behavior modification programs, the notion of self-control usually refers to the regulation of behavior which what?

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may have undesired consequences that one might like to control.

35
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interest in self-control stems from what?

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a and b.

36
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in applications of self-reinforcement, what two procedures can be delineated?

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self-determined reinforcement and self-administered reinforcement.

37
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self-reinforcement and self-punishment techniques have been applied to a wide range of problems including what?

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all of these.

38
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the most common focus of alternate-response training is to control what?

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anxiety.

39
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biofeedback does what?

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teaches clients to engage in specific techniques to regulate their own responses in everyday situations.

40
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self-help manuals have been effectively used to help what?

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a and b.

41
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self-recruited reinforcement consists of clients doing what?

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all of these.

42
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pachis and zonneveld compared video prompting and text based instruction on senior learning to tablet based tasks and they found that what?

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both methods were effective.

43
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cognitively based techniques emphasize what?

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how an individual perceives the environment.

44
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which treatment is the most appropriate for a difficult-to-treat psychological disorder that involves suicidal ideation or attempt?

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dialectical behavioral therapy.

45
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intensive behavioral intervention and pivotal response training are both treatment programs for children with autism spectrum disorder, which of the following is not a similarity between the programs?

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they both advocate a natural approach, integrating stimuli materials and interactions that organically occur is ordinary circumstances.

46
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which treatment of anxiety consists of training someone to be deeply relaxed and pairing relaxation with exposure to the situations that evoke anxiety?

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systematic desensitization.

47
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according to the text, several irrational beliefs are common to our culture and what?

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contribute to emotional and behavioral problems.

48
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which form of therapy has as a central principle the synthesis of acceptance and change?

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dialectical behavior therapy.

49
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problem-solving skills training is used to treat aggressive and antisocial behaviors in children,

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by helping children learn to identify alternative solutions to interpersonal problems.

50
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graduated exposure treatment includes what?

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a hierarchy of fearful stimuli without relaxation techniques.