Should know for exam (made up q's) Flashcards
“If an action brings an award, that action becomes stamped into the mind.”
a) Edward L. Thorndike
b) Ivan Pavlov
c) John B. Watson
d) B.F. Skinner
a) Edward L. Thorndike
(1B)
Showed how environment affects behaviour.
a) Edward L. Thorndike
b) Ivan Pavlov
c) John B. Watson
d) B.F. Skinner
b) Ivan Pavlov
(1B)
“Father of behaviourism.”
Environment alone can change behaviour.
a) Edward L. Thorndike
b) Ivan Pavlov
c) John B. Watson
d) B.F. Skinner
c) John B. Watson
(1B)
“The critical relation between behaviour and environment can be conceived as contingency of reinforcement.”
a) Edward L. Thorndike
b) Ivan Pavlov
c) John B. Watson
d) B.F. Skinner
d) B.F. Skinner
(1B)
*** What are the seven dimensions of ABA?
- Applied
- Behaviour
- Analytic
- Technological
- Conceptually systematic
- Effective
- Generality
(1B)
Within the seven dimensions of ABA, which of the following is an example of what makes something “applied”?
a) Teaching learners who their parents are
b) Teaching learners dog breeds
c) Teaching learners different flags
d) Teaching learners different shoe types
a) Teaching learners who their parents are
(1B)
Within the seven dimensions of ABA, which of the following describes “behaviour”?
a) When a learner says they can do math and when they are given math questions, they can’t do it correctly
b) When a learner says they can print their name and when they are asked to, they can do it
c) When a learner says they can spell a word and when they are given the word, they can’t do it correctly
d) When a learner says they can sit still and when they are given the opportunity, they can’t do it
b) When a learner says they can print their name and when they are asked to, they can do it
(RE: it’s what the learner can do rather than what they say they can do)
(1B)
Within the seven dimensions of ABA, what does this statement describe?: “Experimental design is comparing the baseline period to the intervention period- that is, we wait to see what the behaviour exhibits without implementing intervention vs how does behaviour modulate when we implement our desired intervention.”
a) Analytic
b) Technological
c) Conceptually systematic
d) Effective
a) Analytic
(1B)
Which of the seven dimensions of ABA describes the importance of using operational definitions?
a) Generality
b) Conceptually systematic
c) Technological
d) Effective
c) Technological
(RE: we need to be able to have operational definitions that describe the behaviour & the procedures in a way that others can read it & replicate it)
(1B)
Which of the seven dimensions of ABA describes the importance of tying it back in to the principles of ABA?
a) Generality
b) Conceptually systematic
c) Technological
d) Effective
b) Conceptually systematic
(1B)
Which of the seven dimensions of ABA describes what constitutes effectiveness (i.e. making meaningful change that’s effective)?
a) Generality
b) Conceptually systematic
c) Technological
d) Effective
d) Effective
(1B)
Which of the seven dimensions of ABA describes the importance for our learners to generalize?
a) Generality
b) Conceptually systematic
c) Technological
d) Effective
a) Generality
(1B)
“What does a human/child/adult do?” describes which of the following:
a) Behaviour
b) Response
c) Repertoire
d) Stimulus
a) Behaviour
(3B)
Opening a door is an example of which?
a) Behaviour
b) Response
c) Repertoire
d) Stimulus
b) Response
(RE: response= a specific instance of behaviour)
(3B)
Turning the handle, kicking the door, pushing the door with your shoulder all describes ways to open a door. What does this best describe?
a) Stimulus
b) Stimulus class
c) Response
d) Response class
d) Response class
(RE: response class= “A group of responses with the same function (each response in the group produces the same effect on the environment”)
(3B)
“All of the behaviours a person can do.” describes which of the following?
a) Behaviour
b) Response
c) Repertoire
d) Stimulus
c) Repertoire
(3B)
“Not elicited by preceding stimuli but instead are influenced by stimulus changes that have followed the behaviour in the past “ describes which of the following?
a) Response
b) Stimulus
c) Operant
d) Free operant
c) Operant
(3B)
“The duration, rate, frequency, etc of behaviour absent of any restrictions.” describes which of the following?
a) Response
b) Stimulus
c) Operant
d) Free operant
d) Free operant
(3B)
“A concept for expressing and organizing the temporal and functional relations between operant behaviour and environment” describes which of the following?
a) Three Term Contingency
b) Stimulus
c) Operant
d) Free operant
a) Three Term Contingency
(3B)
Saying “pizza” after someone says “pizza” is an example of which?
a) Intraverbal
b) Mand
c) Tact
d) Echoic
d) Echoic
(3C)
Saying “pizza” because you see a pizza is an example of which?
a) Intraverbal
b) Mand
c) Tact
d) Echoic
c) Tact
(3C)
Saying “pizza” because you want it is an example of which?
a) Intraverbal
b) Mand
c) Tact
d) Echoic
b) Mand
(3C)
When someone asks “What is your favourite colour?” and you say “pink” is an example of which?
a) Intraverbal
b) Mand
c) Tact
d) Echoic
a) Intraverbal
(3C)
“Uncontrolled variables known or suspected to exert an influence on the dependent variable” describes which of the following?
a) Baseline
b) Confounding Variable
c) Internal Validity
d) External Validity
b) Confounding Variable
(RE: things you didn’t necessarily control for that might have an influence on the dependent variable)
(3D)
When a learner engages in repetitive body movements or movements with objects, this is labeled as:
a) Aberrant Behaviour
b) Stereotypic Behaviour
c) Self-injurious Behaviour
d) Agression
b) Stereotypic Behaviour
(RE: learner engages in this behaviour because it feels good, but it is not functional)
(6A)
Time-out is considered:
a) Positive punishment
b) Negative punishment
c) Positive reinforcement
d) Negative reinforcement
b) Negative punishment
(7C)
This prompt operates directly on the response:
a) Response prompts
b) Stimulus prompts
c) Controlling prompts
d) Common inadvertent prompts
a) Response prompts
(8B)
This prompt operates directly on the antecedent task stimuli:
a) Response prompts
b) Stimulus prompts
c) Controlling prompts
d) Common inadvertent prompts
b) Stimulus prompts
(8B)
Verbal prompting, modeling and physical prompts are examples of which:
a) Controlling prompts
b) Stimulus prompts
c) Response prompts
d) Common inadvertent prompts
c) Response prompts
(8B)
Gestural prompts and positional prompts are examples of which:
a) Controlling prompts
b) Stimulus prompts
c) Response prompts
d) Common inadvertent prompts
b) Stimulus prompts
(8B)
Errorless training is also known as which of the following:
a) Progressive time delay
b) Constant time delay
c) Simultaneous prompting
d) Graduated guidance
c) Simultaneous prompting
(8C)
In relation to DTT, which is the correct order of the components?
a) attending, learner’s response, instructions, prompts, feedback, inter-trial interval (ITI)
b) attending, prompts, instructions, learner’s response, feedback, inter-trial interval (ITI)
c) instructions, attending, prompts, feedback, inter-trial interval (ITI), learner’s response
d) attending, instructions, prompts, learner’s response, feedback, inter-trial interval (ITI)
d) attending, instructions, prompts, learner’s response, feedback, inter-trial interval (ITI)
(9A)
Instances of a response can occur repeatedly through time describes which of the following:
a) Countability
b) Temporal Extent
c) Temporal Locus
a) Countability
(RE: repeatability = countability)
(13A)
“Every instance of behaviour occurs during some amount of time” describes which of the following:
a) Countability
b) Temporal Extent
c) Temporal Locus
d) Repeatability
b) Temporal Extent
(13A)
Every instance of behaviour occurs at a certain point in time with respect to other events (i.e. when behaviour occurs can be measured) describes which of the following:
a) Countability
b) Temporal Extent
c) Temporal Locus
d) Repeatability
c) Temporal Locus
(13A)
