Unit 5

Question 1

A procedure for decreasing problem
behavior in which reinforcement is contingent
on the absence of the problem behavior
during or at specific times

Answer 1

Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior

Question 2

DRO

Answer 2

Differential reinforcement of other behavior

Question 3

A procedure for decreasing problem
behavior in which reinforcement is delivered
for a behavior that serves as a desirable
alternative to the behavior targeted for
reduction and withheld following instances of
the problem behavior

Answer 3

Differential Reinforcement of Alternate Behavior

Question 4

DRA

Answer 4

Differential reinforcement of alternative

behavior

Question 5

A systematic method of assessment for
obtaining information about the purpose of a
problem behavior serves for a person

Answer 5

Functional Behavioral Assessment

Question 6

An antecedent intervention in which n
appropriate communicative behavior is
taught as replacement behavior for problem
behavior usually evokes by an establishing
operation

Answer 6

Functional Communication Training

Question 7

FCT

Answer 7

Functional communication training

Question 8

Behavior whose reinforcement is mediated

by a listener

Answer 8

Verbal Behavior

Question 9

Someone who engages in verbal behavior by
emitting mands tacts, intraverbals,
autoclitics, and so on

Answer 9

Speaker

Question 10

Someone who provides reinforcement for

verbal behavior

Answer 10

Listener

Question 11

Verbal Operant

Answer 11

Mand
Tact
Echoic
Intraverbal
Codic
Duplic

Question 12

Manded stimulus selection
Manded compliance (listener responses)

Answer 12

Non-verbal Operants

Question 13

An elementary verbal operant that is evoked
by an MO and followed by a specific
reinforcement

Answer 13

Mand

Question 14

An elementary verbal operant evoked by a
nonverbal discriminative stimulus and
followed by generalized conditioned
reinforcement

Answer 14

Tact

Question 15

An elementary verbal operant that is evoked
by a verbal discriminative stimulus that does
not have point-to-point correspondence with
that verbal stimulus

Answer 15

Intra-verbal

Question 16

An elementary verbal operant involving a
response that is evoked by a verbal
discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point
correspondence, but not formal similarity,
between the stimulus, behavior, and
consequence

Answer 16

Codic Textual

Question 17

An elementary verbal operant involving a
spoken verbal stimulus that evokes a written,
typed, or finger-spelled response

Answer 17

Codic Transcription

Question 18

An elementary verbal operant involving a
response that is evoked by verbal
discriminative stimulus that has point-to-point
correspondence and formal similarity with
the response

Answer 18

Duplic Echoic

Question 19

An elementary verbal operant that is evoke
by a nonvocal verbal discriminative stimulus
that has point-to-point correspondence and
formal similarity with the corresponding
response

Answer 19

Duplic Copying words

Question 20

Verbal discriminative stimulus in the form of

signs

Answer 20

Duplic Imitating signs

Question 21

Single verbal response is a function of more
than one variable and what is said has more
than one antecedent source of control

Answer 21

Multiply Controlled Operant

Question 22

A secondary verbal operant in which some
aspect of a speaker’s own verbal behavior
functions as an SD or an MO for additional
speaker verbal behavior

Answer 22

Autoclitic

Question 23

Selecting a named item or following a direction to

complete a task

Answer 23

Manded Stimulus Selection

Question 24

When a response form occurs reliably as one
specific operant, gradually introduce the
antecedent and consequence conditions of a
new operant and fade the conditions of the
original operant until this same response form
occurs as the new operant

Answer 24

Transferring stimulus control from one

operant to another

Question 25

Topography Based response forms

Answer 25

Saying words
Forming gestures or signs
Writing words
Making distinctive sounds

Question 26

Selection Based response forms

Answer 26

Pointing to pictures, symbols, or words on a board or
an electronic device without voice output
Selecting pictures, symbols, or words and handing
these pictures to another person
Touching pictures, symbols, or words on an electronic
device with voice output
Activating a switch which selects pictures, symbols, or
words on an electronic device with voice output
Typing letters and words
Making Braille patterns with a Braille writer
Pointing to or touching items

Question 27

Learners will be able to acquire more skills
and communicate a greater variety of
messages with more detail to a smaller
audience

Answer 27

with signs

Question 28

Learners will be able to acquire fewer skills
and communicate fewer and less detailed
messages, but to a larger audience

Answer 28

with picture selection