Unit 1 Quiz

Question 1

A prompt should be delivered ____________ the discriminative stimulus and ____________ the behavior.

Answer 1

After, before

Question 2

Brian is teaching his son to shoot a basketball. Initially, Brian lowers the backboard and uses a smaller ball in order to make it more likely that his son will correctly shoot the ball. This is an example of a(an) ____________ prompt.

Answer 2

Within-stimulus

Question 3

Here is a common situation: New parents put a child to bed. The parents of the child are very tired, because they work hard and are trying to raise a young child. The child begins to cry. When they put the child in their own bed, the child stops crying. Therefore, in the future, they are more likely to put the child in their own bed. What has occurred in this situation?

Answer 3

The parents have been reinforced for putting the child in their bed via negative reinforcement.

Question 4

Jennifer’s mom is teaching her how to ride a bicycle. Her mom gets on the bike and rides it around the yard. By demonstrating the entire behavior, Jennifer’s mom is using a ____________ prompt.

Answer 4

Modeling

Question 5

Paul’s shop teacher is teaching him how to use an electric sander. The shop teacher places his hands over Paul’s and guides Paul through the correct motions. Hand-over-hand guidance is an example of a ____________ prompt.

Answer 5

Physical

Question 6

Presenting the S D, decreasing response effort, and presenting an establishing operation are ways to:

Answer 6

Make a behavior more likely

Question 7

Removing the S D, arranging abolishing operations, and increasing response effort are ways to:

Answer 7

Make a behavior less likely

Question 8

Stimulus-stimulus pairing procedures can be used to do what?

Answer 8

Establish new reinforcers

Question 9

Tammy’s dad is teaching her to drive. As they approach a stop sign, he tells her to step on the brake and slow down. This is an example of a ____________ prompt.

Answer 9

Verbal

Question 10

The stimulus-stimulus pairing procedure that is used to establish conditioned reinforcers and punishers is the same as that of the respondent conditioning process except:

Answer 10

The outcome is one of a reinforcer or punisher instead of a stimulus that will elicit a response.

Question 11

Tony’s basketball coach just put him into the game, but Tony does not know which player on the opposing team he is supposed to guard on defense. The coach points to the player that Tony is to guard. This is an example of a ____________ prompt.

Answer 11

Gestural

Question 12

Transfer of stimulus control from prompts to naturally occurring stimuli is accomplished through:

Answer 12

Prompt fading

Question 13

Verbal praise does not appear to be a reinforcer for Jack. However, he works very hard to earn gummy bears. The therapist is always presenting verbal praise simultaneously when presenting a gummy bear to Jack. This is an example of what procedure?

Answer 13

Stimulus-stimulus pairing

Question 14

When a student uses flash cards with questions on one side and answers on the other side to study for a test, it is an example of a(an) ____________ prompt.

Answer 14

Extra-stimulus

Question 15

When stimulus control is not developing, what procedure can be used?

Answer 15

Response prompts

Question 16

When using prompting and transfer of stimulus control, the use of ____________ gets the correct behavior to occur, and the use of ____________ transfers stimulus control to the natural discriminative stimulus.

Answer 16

Prompting, fading

Question 17

Which antecedent control procedure is used to evoke a desired behavior?

Answer 17

Presenting the Sd

Question 18

Which is true?

Answer 18

All the above:

a. To maximize the effectiveness of negative reinforcement for a given response, it is important that there is a great difference in the level of stimulation present before the response, as compared to after the response.
b. Negative reinforcement can be used to teach both appropriate and inappropriate behaviors.
c. Research has demonstrated that the use of error correction procedures during instruction may create an avoidance contingency.

Question 19

Which of the following constitutes a prompt?

Answer 19

Physically helping an individual perform a task

Question 20

Which of the following is (are) necessary for prompting and transfer of stimulus control to be considered complete?

Answer 20

A and B:
Prompts have been completely removed
Behavior is under the control of the natural discriminative stimulus

Question 21

Which of the following is a stimulus prompt?

Answer 21

After closing the lid, Mary turns the dial to the correct cycle. Prior to the training session, Ashley painted a red arrow to the correct setting to help Mary remember where to set the dial. Mary successfully sets the dial to the correct setting without any additional assistance.

Question 22

Which of the following is an example of stimulus fading?

Answer 22

WRONG (not all the above)

Question 23

Which of the following is not a type of response prompt?

Answer 23

Within-stimulus

Question 24

Which of the following is not an example of something that might be used to transfer stimulus control from response prompts to natural stimuli?

Answer 24

Verbal instructions

Question 25

Which procedure can be used to develop stimulus control?

Answer 25

Stimulus discrimination training