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SPCE 611 Study Practice Exam Questions withComplete Solutions| 2025 Update
The environment influences behavior primarily by static stimulus conditions. - ✔✔False
Response topography refers to: - ✔✔The physical shape or form of a behavior.
Pairing a neutral stimulus with a conditioned stimulus can produce a conditioned reflex. This
process can be best described as: - ✔✔Higher order respondent conditioning
According to your Cooper et. al., Book, a referenced article notes 5 functions/phases of
behavioral assessment. Check all that apply (must correctly identify all 5 to get full credit for
this question): - ✔✔Screening
Pinpointing the target behavior
Monitoring progress
Follow up
Defining and generally quantifying problems
Which of the following refers to the overall direction a data path takes? - ✔✔trend
In a multiple baseline design graph, what do you remove from the x axis in all but the last
graph? - ✔✔the numbers or dates for sessions
,Which of the following is an example of a discontinous measurement system? -
✔✔momentary
time-sampling
Which of the following is an example of indirect measurement? - ✔✔ratings obtained from a
teacher on student behavior
All of the following are threats to internal validity except: - ✔✔NOT: reactivity
To control for observer drift, researchers can - ✔✔have data collectors review operational
definitions every time
The two assumptions about the nature of behavior are: (a) behavior is an individual
phenomenon and (b) behavior is a dynamic, continuous phenomenon. - ✔✔The above listed
are actually the defining features, not the assumptions. If you got this one wrong it is
probably
due to misreading/reading too fast. Go back and re-read slowly (pg.161) and you will know
that
the correct answer is False.
The behavior analytic assumption of behavioral variability is that it is extrinsic to the
organism. -
✔✔True
, Parametric studies involve: - ✔✔multiple manipulations of the independent variable to
determine the differential effects of a range of values of the independent variable
The purpose of collecting data in a systematic way and graphing them using single subject
research design is to: - ✔✔predict, verify, replicate
In a changing criterion design, the introduction of the independent variable (IV) is done in a(n)
-
✔✔stepwise fashion
When treatment is introduced in the first component of a multiple baseline design, the
baseline
levels in the other components should _________________. - ✔✔stay the same
If generalization is observed when the independent variable is introduced to the first baseline
in
the multiple baseline design, one way to show control is to change the design to
___________________. - ✔✔NOT: changing criterion design
Three elements of social validity are: - ✔✔goals; procedures; outcomes
Social validity refers to the degree to which: - ✔✔NOT: assessment and treatment effects
result
in a decrease in socially inappropriate behavior
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