The employees at a group home have not been meeting their supervisor's expectations concerning on-time arrival to work. To address this issue, their supervisor implemented an intervention that allows for each staff member who arrives on time for all scheduled shifts in a given week to obtain an extended lunch break on Fridays. What type of intervention was implemented?
A verbal response to a verbal stimulus where the correspondence between stimulus and response is arbitrary and derived from the verbal community is:
Robert has been referred because he is losing significant amounts of weight due to refusal of most foods. What should the behavior analyst consider first?
Each response in a chain produces a stimulus change that serves as both a discriminative stimulus anD.
What determines the amount of change at each step in a changing-criterion design?
At the point in time when non-contingent reinforcement is delivered, the treatment provider is reinforcinG.
Which of the following is an example of conditioned punishment?
Mark is a 28-year-old man with multiple physical disabilities. The doctor and physical therapist have recommended a variety of positions to benefit Mark's overall health. When Mark is placed in a prescribed position, he yells, arches his back, and bites his wrist. Subsequently, Mark slips out of position. The behavior analyst seeks to help Mark tolerate his positions. Which statement BEST defines a treatment goal?
A child with an advanced verbal repertoire exhibits aggression when asked to do a new math problem. In order to address the problem the behavior analyst shoulD.
A reversal design does NOT permit an evaluation of an intervention for:
Jim is preparing his doctoral dissertation in applied behavior analysis for publication in a scientific journal. The editors, in their instructions sent to authors, have indicated that all of the procedures employed in the study must be thoroughly described in order for the article to be accepted. Which dimension of applied behavior analysis BEST supports this requirement?
Steven lives in a group home with four other men. Most of his housemates spend about equal amounts of time in the living room and the recreation room. Steven spends about 75% of his free time in the living room and 25% in the recreation room. Staff observations have shown that staff attention is very reinforcing for Steven. If the matching law is operating in this scenario, what is the predicted rate of staff attention to Steven in the living room?
Missy has learned that if she is thirsty and wants juice, she says, "Juice" and gets juice. The connection between saying "Juice" and receiving juice is BEST described as:
Which of the following is an example of a listener response?
Although tests have confirmed that Matthew is not deaf, his mother is worried because Matthew is very slow to respond when she calls to him. Frequently, she has to resort to touching him before he looks at her. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate for measuring Matthew looking when called?
What does this graph depict?
Which statement is an example of "philosophic doubt"?
A behavior analyst is asked to provide direct services requiring daily 1:1 interaction with a teen-aged client. The client does not speak but can communicate fluently using sign language. The behavior analyst knows some sign language but is not fluent. The BEST approach to this situation would be to
From an ethical standpoint, target behaviors and program goals should be selected
Which of the following measures would be the MOST appropriate for reporting head banging during each 5-minute interval of work?
In general, when a behavior analyst is asked to help someone make friends, the behavior analyst shoulD.
A teacher is tracking the performance of both math and spelling assignments for each of her 25 students. For feedback purposes, she wishes to display each student's percent correct for both areas using a line graph. What would be the MOST effective and efficient way to accomplish this?
What is the reinforcing consequence in "I itch, therefore I scratch?"
When developing a task analysis, a behavior analyst would first:
The use of a withdrawal design is LEAST appropriate when:
Which is NOT a characteristic of applied behavior analysis?
Carlos participated in a toothbrushing skill acquisition program. When he started the program, he needed physical assistance to perform each step. After two weeks, he met all objectives and was able to complete each step independently. The program involved the use of graduated guidance, praise, and token reinforcement. In the future, the behavior analyst would like to examine which procedures made the program most effective (i.e., guidance, praise, or token reinforcement). To determine this, the behavior analyst could use a
Tact behavior is controlled by a ________ stimulus. The reinforcer for tact behavior is _____.
Adherence to "procedural integrity" promotes generalization by facilitatinG.
Experimental control is demonstrated in a changing criterion design by a change in behavior:
During three 30-minute observations, Linda gouged her eye 8, 17, and 12 times, respectively. Each incident lasted between 1 and 3 seconds, with an average duration of 1.3 seconds. Which is the BEST dimension to continue to measure?
Unwanted side-effects associated with the use of an extinction procedure are MOST likely to appear:
Three boys with autism, ages 7–10 years old, served as participants in a study. During baseline, staff used response blocking when five instances of aggression or head-banging occurred within 10 seconds, until attempts ceased for 1 minute. During baseline and treatment, each occurrence of aggression and head-banging was recorded daily and converted to the number of responses per hour. Treatment comprised a differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior (DRI) schedule coupled with response blocking after every head-banging or aggression. The staff initially applied the treatment to head-banging, while continuing to take a baseline on aggression.
After noting treatment effects on head-banging, the staff then applied the treatment to aggression.
In this scenario, how was direct replication shown?
A reliable measure is one that is:
Available resources, applicable federal and state laws, programmatic costs, and a person's adaptive skills, learning history, and personal interests should all be considered as part of the process oF.
A narrative recording is used to clearly determine all of the following EXCEPT:
In order to promote generalization in intensive teaching, the behavior analyst shoulD.
When given by a thirsty person in response to the question, "What do you want to drink?" the spoken word "water" is functioning as a (n):
Deane's friend takes her to the mall every week. She frequently hugs people whom she does not know. The behavior analyst wants to use an intervention that includes reinforcement of appropriate behavior when Deane does something other than hugging. Which intervention would be MOST appropriate?
Instruction that focuses on speed and accuracy of responding can BEST be described as promotinG.