PSY 7712 Unit 10 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Rated A+ Latest Update 2025
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PSY 7712 Unit 10 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Rated A+ Latest Update 2025
How often should a preference assessment be conducted? - Answers **a. It depends on the individual.**
b. Weekly.
c. Monthly.
d. Hourly.
A parent is trying to decrease the frequency of a child's swearing behavio...
PSY 7712 Unit 10 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Rated A+ Latest Update 2025
How often should a preference assessment be conducted? - Answers **a. It depends on the
individual.**
b. Weekly.
c. Monthly.
d. Hourly.
A parent is trying to decrease the frequency of a child's swearing behavior. The parent observes the
child and writes down a description of the behavior, antecedents, and consequences each time the child
swears. In this example, the parent is using the ____________ method of ABC observation. - Answers a.
Indirect.
b. Checklist.
c. Interval recording.
**d. Descriptive.**
Direct observation and indirect methods of functional assessment are used to: - Answers a. Develop a
hypothesis about antecedents and consequences of a behavior.
b. Manipulate antecedents and consequences of a behavior.
c. Gather information on the three-term contingency.
**d. Both A and C.**
A teacher is working with a child who frequently engages in fighting with other children on the
playground. The teacher observes and records the events that immediately precede and follow the
child's behavior of fighting. Which method of conducting a functional assessment is the teacher using? -
Answers a. Functional analysis.
**b. Direct observation.**
c. Indirect methods.
d. Experimental manipulation.
T/F Analogue functional analyses (FAs) and functional behavior assessments (FBAs) are the same thing. -
Answers False
How can intervention development be driven by ABC data that are collected on the function of the
target behavior? - Answers **a. Determine how the ABC contingency can be altered to promote more
positive behavior.**
, b. The antecedent condition can be replaced with reinforcement.
c. The rate of the behavior can be calculated to set a baseline for shaping.
d. All of the above.
T/F A reinforcer assessment and a preference assessment are the same thing. - Answers False
During __________, data is collected only when behaviors of interest are observed. - Answers a. Open-
ended interviews.
b. Behavior rating scales.
c. Scatterplots.
d. Behavioral interviews.
**e. ABC narrative recording.**
Choose the statement below that is true. - Answers a. An FBA always includes an FA or it would not be
called an FBA.
b. A functional analysis must always include four conditions.
**c. An FBA must include at the least data from direct observation of the behavior.**
d. A complete FBA may only include indirect assessment information.
If one conducts an FBA and gathers informant information and ABC data, at best they can do the
following with the information and data gathered: - Answers a. Confirm the function of a problem
behavior.
**b. Hypothesize the function of a problem behavior.**
c. Implement default technologies to address the behavior.
d. Compare assessment findings with information from results of the Weschler IQ test.
______ generalization occurred when Jerry first learned how to operate the door handle to open the
bathroom door at home and was later observed opening several doors across the school campus. -
Answers **a. Stimulus.**
b. Remote.
c. Response.
d. Over.
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