APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS FINAL EXAM 2024/2025 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS |GRADED A+

APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS FINAL EXAM 2024/2025 U PDATED QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS |GRADED A+ Negative reinforcement involves - ANSWER - removing an aversive stimulus contingent upon a behavior The key distinction between negative and positive reinforcement is - ANSWER - The type of stimulus change occurs following a response Can an aversive stimulus function both as a negative and positive reinforcer? - ANSWER - Yes Joey forgot to clean his room before leaving school. When he returned from school in the afternoon, he qu ickly cleaned his room before his mother came home to avoid a reprimand from her. Is the reprimand, in this case, an unconditioned negative reinforcer? - ANSWER - No, conditioned negative reinforcer Negative reinforcement can be differentiated from punishment by carefully attending to the role of aversive stimulus. In a negative reinforcement contingency, the aversive stimulus ____________, whereas in a punishment contingency, the aversive stimulus __ ______. - ANSWER - Is removed following the target behavior; is present before the target behavior Joe hates his new alarm clock. This morning, the annoying buzzer sounded at 6:00 a.m.. Joe hit the snooze button to catch a few more minutes of sleep. He ope ned his eyes and saw that the clock read 6:14 am. Knowing the buzzer would sound again at 6:15. Because he hates the sound of the alarm, he reaches over and shuts of the alarm before it can sound again. Turning off the alarm before it can sound again is an example of : - ANSWER - Free operant avoidance Sandy asks her mother for help washing the dishes to reduce the amo unt of time she has to spend in the kitchen doing chores. This is an example of a - ANSWER - socially mediated reinforcer. To maximize the effectiveness of negative reinforcement for a given response, is it important that there is a great difference in the level of stimulation present before the response as compared to after the response? - ANSWER - No Can negative reinforcement be used to teach both appropriate and inappropriate behaviors? - ANSWER - Yes What is the difference between an escape contingency and an avoidance contingency? - ANSWER - Escape contingencies respond in the presence of aversive stimuli and avoidance contingencies respond in the absence of aversive stimuli Give a novel example of how negative reinforcement could be used to teach appr opriate behavior. - ANSWER - If Mary does her homework every night she will not have to stay in class during gym to finish it. Define fixed and variable interval s chedules of reinforcement. - ANSWER - A Variable interval produces reinforcement for the correct response following the elapse of variable durations of time. The mean duration of the interval is used to describe the schedule. A fixed interval schedule of re inforcement is when the reinforcement is delivered for the first correct response emitted following the passage or fixed duration of time since last response. What is scallop effect and where would you expect to see it? - ANSWER - The Scallop effect occurs when responding is very slow or nonexistent immediately following reinforcement, then progressively increases and is finally rapid just before another reinforcement is due. The schedule of reinforcement is a rule that describes - ANSWER - A rule that describes a contingency of reinforcement Continuos reinforcement provides reinforcement for - ANSWER - Each occurrence of a behavior Applied behavior analysts use intermittent reinforcement to - ANSWER - maintain and established behaviors The four basic schedules of intermittent reinforcement are - ANSWER - fixed ratio, variable ratio, fixed interval, and variable interval A post reinforcement is a pause when - ANSWER - the subject does not respond for a period of time following a response With variable reinforcement, a number representing the ______ number of responses required for reinforcement is determined. - ANSWER - Average