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Personalized System of Instruction is beneficial because:
A)each student is given an individualized learning curriculum that will maximize their potential of
learning difficult subject matter.
B)students get to choose what they want to learn and this increases motivation to stay on task.
C)students learn at their own pace, which may reduce frustration for some students.
D)All the above. - Answer: C
A dog is watching a movie filled with other animals with its owner. When a dog appears on the television
screen and begins to stand on its hind legs so too does the pet dog. In this example, the dog movie star
on screen serves as a(n) ___________ and the pet dog serves as a(n) ____________.
A)Planned model; imitator
B)Unplanned model; imitator
C)Imitator; unplanned model
D)Imitator; planned model - Answer: B
You are working with an elderly man who frequently gives out his private contact information (phone
number, address, etc) to random people because he does not understand the risks of giving out
personal information to others. You help him make a list of people he can give personal information to,
which includes only family and friends.
Making a list of ONLY people he can give personal information to is an example of:
A)Stimulus maintenance
,B)Stimulus generalization
C)Stimulus equivalence
D)Stimulus discrimination - Answer: D
The completion of one step in a behavioral chain always results in:
A)token reinforcers.
B)a discriminative stimulus to complete the next step of the behavior chain (except during the last step)
.C)the ability to do so correctly in the future.
D)social praise. - Answer: B
When using punishment, the person delivering the punishment should:
A)deliver the punishing stimulus intermittently, at least at first, to avoid the learner having strong
emotional responses.
B)start with very mild punishment and increase the magnitude of punishment each time it is delivered
so that it decreases the learner's motivation to repeat the punished behavior.
C)deliver the punishment immediately, whenever it is possible, to maximize its effectiveness.
D)(None of the above) - Answer: C
marksman team is split up into 4 different groups, each containing 2 marksmen. Each marksman gets to
shoot their firearm once at a bullseye target down the firing range. Then, each 2-marksman group finds
the mean distance of their groups shots from the center of the bullseye by adding the distances from
the center of the bullseye to where they hit on the target, divided by 2. The group that has the smallest
average distance from the bullseye (that hit closest to the bullseye on average per hit) gets to go home
early (a reward). What type of group contingency is this?
A)The Good Behavior Game
B)A dependent group contingency
C)An interdependent group contingency
D)An independent group contingency - Answer: C
,Dennis is a BCBA® who has worked with his company for a few years. He is well-known and well-liked by
his coworkers and supervisees. He has supervised several BCBA® candidates while at this company and
each of them have become behavior analyst themselves. Today Dennis has been asked to supervise a
new BCBA® candidate at his company. Before providing supervision, what should Dennis provide?
A)a written description of the purpose of providing supervision and the requirements and expectations
of the supervisee.
B)the criteria that will be used to evaluate the performance of the supervisee.
C)(Both A and B)
D)Dennis does not need to provide any information, he is well-known at his company and his company
has already told the BCBA® candidate what to expect. - Answer: C
When using incidental teaching, the therapist should:
A)reinforce every correct response, even if the response was prompted. B)reinforce every response,
whether it is correct or not.
C)reinforce every unprompted correct response and withhold reinforcement for every prompted correct
response.
D)(None of the above) - Answer: A
When teaching echoics, it is crucial that the learner has:
A)high motivation for the word he is echoing.
B)a verbally imitative repertoire.
C)already learned how to tact that item.
D)(None of the above) - Answer: B
What type of graph is this?
A)BABA Design
, B)ABAB Design
C)Changing Criterion Design
D)(Cannot determine) - Answer: D
Event recording would be MOST appropriate to use with which behavior?
A)The number of times a woodpecker pecks wood in a day
B)The number of steps a child takes in one day
C)The number of lollipop suckers a child eats in a day
D)The number of hours a child spends sitting in one day - Answer: C
A changing criterion experimental design would be most beneficial to use for which of the following
behaviors?
A)Decreasing the amount of times a person bites their nails each day B)Teaching a child how to
appropriately brush their teeth
C)Teaching your cousin how to drive
D)Decreasing a child's elopement behavior in unsafe locations - Answer: A
You begin writing behavioral interventions and a treatment plan for your client Benny. You are certain
you would like to implement your interventions with Benny. When should you obtain consent from a
guardian?
A)ONLY if the guardian requested to be asked for their approval before changes are made
B)before changing an intervention goal.
C)ONLY before a more restrictive intervention is used.
D)(All of the above) - Answer: B
A 7-year-old leaves his bedroom at night and goes to sleep in the family home's living room on the
couch. The parents want their son sleeping in his own room and bed. The parents determine that their
son is doing this because his room is bright at night due to the brightly lit restaurant signs across the
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