LATEST 2024 EDF 6223 Exam 2 100% SOLUTIONS

Every time you go to Taco Bell, you order fire sauce for your tacos and they give it to you. You live across town and go to a different Taco Bell which informs you that there is no fire sauce in stock. Eventually, you stop asking for fire sauce because your behavior has been: - ANSWER Extinguished Dwight tells a colleague that his son's nose picking behavior has been extinguished simply because he has been delivering reinforcer during periods of time where he has not picked. Is Dwight using the term extinction correctly? - ANSWER No You have a client who refuses to eat food at dinner. You begin presenting food for the client to eat and only remove the presentation of food when 5 bites have been swallowed. This is an example of: - ANSWER Escape extinction A client exhibits disruptive behavior while grocery shopping with his mother. The parent delivers reinforcement every 5-7 minutes that the target behavior does not occur. This procedure is part of: - ANSWER DRO A behavior plan has a DRA procedure in which a student is given the reinforcing consequence of being answered any time he raises his hands instead of shouting out. The teacher accidentally responds to him sometimes. What is one thing you should consider when modifying this procedure? - ANSWER Provide coaching so that he is answered only when his hand is raised Michelle prompts Michael with a 5 page math worksheet, which is his least preferred subject. He flips his desk over in protest. What should Michelle consider - ANSWER Task length Each time Xander is asked to complete his evening chores, his mother interrupts his online game and many problem behaviors follow. What can be the behavior analyst best recommend to mom in order to get Xander to complete his chores? - ANSWER Ask Xander to do his chores before he logs in to his game Raquel is a gifted student; however there is no advanced placement for her general math class. Her teacher calls in an analyst to address her "sleeping" behavior during independent seat work. What should the analyst best recommend? - ANSWER Provide Raquel with more challenging math work Frédérique exhibits extremely high frequencies of problem behavior. Which of the following is NOT appropriate to recommend? - ANSWER Behavior momentum Amelia bites her hand when she needs help. Which would be a great intervention to recommend? - ANSWER FCT You have a client that seems to become bored or satiated with preferred reinforcers very quickly, regardless of what it is. One option you could implement is: - ANSWER Getting several backup reinforcers to use with a token economy A teacher and student complain that the contingency contract isn't working. You review the contract and find that there is a place for tracking progress and a well-designed reinforcer menu, but it is missing: - ANSWER Details about the task A class of student is split into two groups where each group is given a mark when undesired behavior is observed by the teacher. The teacher rewards the group with the fewest marks. The class is using: - ANSWER The good behavior game Your employer has told you that if everyone turns in the requested signed paperwork before the deadline that there will be a 20% one-time bonus added to the next paycheck. This is an example of which group contingency: - ANSWER Interdependent A counselor at a summer camp is tired of hearing the children scream indoors. She tells all members of the group that they can have extra 15 minutes of recess if no one screams for the next 30 minutes. This is a: - ANSWER Interdependent group contingency ________ is a procedure that decreases the future frequency of a behavior because reinforcement of that previously reinforced behavior is discontinued. - ANSWER extinction 1. Because extinction is an often-misused word in ABA, behavior analysts should only use the term to identify the procedure of withholding _________ that maintained a behavior. - ANSWER reinforcers 1. the procedural forms of extinction, i.e. ignoring, are different and not as effective as the __________ variations of extinction. - ANSWER functional 1. Behaviors maintained by negative reinforcement are said to be placed on extinction when that behavior no longer produces the __________ of the aversive stimulus. - ANSWER removal _________ produces a gradual decrease in behavior except when the reinforcement is removed abruptly. - ANSWER Extinction 1. Using extinction with behaviors linked to __________ is not recommended to treat problem behaviors. - ANSWER automatic reinforcement 1. To be effective with using extinction, the behavior analyst must make sure that all reinforcers are withheld, that __________ is withheld consistently, and that the extinction procedure is combined with other procedures. - ANSWER reinforcement 1. All applications of differential reinforcement involve _____________ one response class while withholding ____________ from another response class. - ANSWER reinforcing; reinforcement 1. DRA procedures use reinforcement when a behavior is a desirable alternative to the target behavior but not necessarily ___________ - ANSWER incompatible 1. To improve the effectiveness of DRA and DRI, the behavior analyst should make sure that the skills needed to do the desired behaviors are in the learner's______________ - ANSWER repertoire. 1. A practitioner using DRO would deliver a reinforcer after a behavior has not occurred within a specified ______; this is also known as DR of zero responding. - ANSWER time 1. Researchers found that manipulating the dimensions of reinforcement along the lines of _________, quality, or delay when extinction could not be used. - ANSWER duration As a reminder, discriminative stimuli evoke behavior because they have been correlated with increased availability of _______________ whereas, the evocative function of MOs are independent of the _______________ of reinforcement. - ANSWER reinforcement; availability The term _______________ refers to the temporal relation of stimuli or events coming before an occurrence of behavior. - ANSWER antecedent When known reinforcers are delivered on a time based schedule of reinforcement - regardless of the learner's behavior - we are using an antecedent intervention known as _______________. - ANSWER NCR A non-contingently reinforced enriched environment may function as an abolishing operation; in other words, it reduces the _______________ to engage in the problem behavior - ANSWER motivation An antecedent intervention in which two to five tasks with a known history of learner compliance are presented in quick succession immediately before requesting the target