Unit 5

Question 1

Differential reinforcement of other behavior

Answer 1

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

Question 2

DRO

Answer 2

Differential reinforcement of other behavior

Question 3

Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior

Answer 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.

Question 4

DRA

Answer 4

Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior.

Question 5

Functional behavior assessment

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Functional communication training

Answer 6

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

Question 7

FCT

Answer 7

Functional communication training

Question 8

Verbal behavior

Answer 8

Behavior whose reinforcement is mediated by a listener.

Question 9

Speaker

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Listener

Answer 10

Someone who provides reinforcement for verbal behavior.

Question 11

Verbal operants

Answer 11

Mand
Tact
Echoic
Intraverbal
Codic
Duplic

Question 12

Nonverbal operants

Answer 12

Manded stimulus selection
Manded compliance (listener responses)

Question 13

Mand

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Tact

Answer 14

An elementary verbal operant evoked by a

nonverbal discriminative stimulus and followed by generalized conditioned reinforcement.

Question 15

Intraverbal

Answer 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.

Question 16

Codic: textual

Answer 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.

Question 17

Codic: transcription

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Duplic: echoic

Answer 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.

Question 19

Duplic: copying words

Answer 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.

Question 20

Duplic: imitating signs

Answer 20

Verbal discriminative stimulus in the form of signs.

Question 21

Multiply controlled operant

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Autoclitic

Answer 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.

Question 23

Manded stimulus selection

Answer 23

Selecting a named item or following a direction to complete a task.

Question 24

Transferring stimulus control from one operant to another

Answer 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.

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

With signs

Answer 27

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

Question 28

With picture selection

Answer 28

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