Test 3

Question 1

Why does aberrant behavior occur?

Answer 1

• Has a function.
• Escape from situation
• Production of positive reinforcers (attention, noise)

Question 2

Survival of the Fittest or the Matching Law

Answer 2

The behavior that will continue produces consequences most immediately and most frequently, greatest quantity of consequences, least effort, highest quality of consequences.

Question 3

How do we address aberrant behavior?

Answer 3

1. Prevention strategies
2. Crisis management
3. Teach appropriate alternative behavior
4. Minimize the reinforcing consequences of the problem behavior

Question 4

Examples of prevention strategies

Answer 4

• Rearrange the person’s environment to promote engagement.
• Increase positive reinforcement.
• Observe what conditions are correlated with problem behavior.

Question 5

Functional alternative behavior

Answer 5

a desirable behavior that will compete with the problem behavior

Question 6

Functional alternative behavior will produce the same consequences as the problem behavior but with…

Answer 6

• more immediate consequences
• higher probability of consequences
• greater quality of consequences
• requires less effort

Question 7

Functional assessment

Answer 7

method to get essential info about the problem behavior

Question 8

Info you want from a functional assessment

Answer 8

• Characteristic of problem behavior
• Antecedents of problem behavior
• Consequences of problem behavior
• Some alternative and more desirable behaviors that could be increased

Question 9

3 Parts of a Functional Assessment

Answer 9

1. Interview with those who know person well
2. Systematic observation of the person and instances of the problem behavior.
3. Experimental functional analysis (manipulate environment to determine trigger of behavior)

Question 10

DRO (differential reinforcement of other behavior)

Answer 10

used to eliminate a behavior without punishment;encourage wanted behavior by reinforcing wanted behavior and ignoring unwanted behavior

Question 11

Possible DRO issues

Answer 11

• You may accidentally reinforce another behavior you do not want.
• You may select an interval that is too long.

Question 12

Spaced-responding DRL

Answer 12

purpose is to reinforce and maintain lower rates of an acceptable behavior that is occurring too frequently

Question 13

Limited-responding DRL

Answer 13

purpose is to reinforce increasingly lower and lower rates of a problem behavior until little or no instances of the problem behavior occur

Question 14

Response Cost

Answer 14

the loss of something valued by the person contingent on a problem behavior