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,Measurement Test Items for Instructors


Functional Behavioral Assessment,
Diagnosis, and Treatment
A Complete System for Education and Mental Health
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Third Edition


Ennio Cipani, PhD




ISBN: 978-0-8261-7022-4

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Chapter 1: Environmental (operant) function of behavior

1. An examination of temporally ordered environmental events conducted in order to reveal the purpose of a
behavior is called ______________.

A. psychology

B. an incomplete analysis of human behavior

C. experimental analysis of behavior

D. a functional behavior-analytic approach to understanding human behavior

2. In a functional behavior-analytic approach, ________behavior is viewed as serving an environmental
function.

A. operant

B. respondent

C. private

D. some

3. A functional behavior-analytic viewpoint examines the role of _________________.

A. how people interact with each other

B. genetics in the formation of behavior

C. both the psychological and biological factors that control behavior

D. both the social and physical context. It deals with events that are both observable to us and
measurable

4. A functional behavior-analytic viewpoint examines the role of traits in understanding human behavior.

A. True

B. False

5. You change child behavior by _____________.

A. changing the behavior of the adults who deal with that child.

B. using extinction

C. completing a Functional Behavior Analysis


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, D. providing the appropriate medication

6. In a functional behavior-analytic approach, behavior is viewed as functional (i.e., purposeful) for certain
antecedent contexts because ____________.

A. it is common

B. it is a more parsimonious explanation than intrapsychic events

C. experimental data support this conclusion

D. of the contingency involved

7. When Oskar wants to go out, he complains. Such behavior is not instrumental in getting him outside. The
complaining behavior becomes ____ likely in subsequent afternoons when Oskar wants to go outside.

A. conditionally

B. more

C. equally

D. less


Differentiating Access Versus Escape Functions

1. There are two types of maintaining contingencies for problem (or other) behavior: ___________ and
____________ reinforcement contingencies.

A. internal, external

B. positive, negative

C. intrinsic, extrinsic

D. good, bad

2. Positive reinforcement contingencies involve behaviors that produce an environmental event, that
subsequently ____________ the level of occurrence of that behavior under the same or similar conditions.

A. decreases

B. changes

C. modulates

D. increases

3. Positive reinforcement contingencies involve behaviors that produce an environmental event that
subsequently increases the level of occurrence of that behavior under the same or similar conditions.

A. True

B. False



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,4. The operation of positive reinforcement involves a behavior that produces an event (activity, object) that
subsequently _________ of that behavior in the future (under certain motivational contexts).

A. strengthens the occurrence

B. weakens the occurrence

C. changes the antecedent condition

D. effects the occurrence

5. The operation of positive reinforcement involves a behavior that produces an event (activity, object) that
subsequently strengthens the occurrence of that behavior in the future (under certain motivational contexts).

A. True

B. False

6. The two requirements for identifying a contingency as one involving positive reinforcement are: (a) that the
level of the behavior is at ___________ than the level without the contingent relation, and (b) that the
contingency is one of a behavior ___________

A. lower or decreased levels

B. higher or increased levels

C. producing an environmental event

D. B and C

E. A and C

7. An understanding of negative reinforcement operations is _________ the design of effective treatments.

A. unnecessary to

B. nice to know in

C. critical to

D. superfluous to

8. If you serve individuals who more often engage in behavior problems during task demands, compliance
situations, instructional conditions, or chores and/work, an understanding of ____________ is critical to the
analysis of such behaviors function and the design of effective treatments.

A. escape functions

B. positive punishment

C. mental illness

D. parenting styles




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, 9. In an access function, the effect of the behavior is to ___________ a contingent item or event that makes
such a behavior more likely in the future.

A. classify

B. produce

C. terminate or postpone

D. predict

10. In an access function, the effect of the behavior is to produce an unpleasant experience that makes such a
behavior more likely in the future.

A. True

B. False

11. In an access function, the effect of the behavior is to produce a contingent item or event that makes such a
behavior more likely in the future.

A. True

B. False

12. In an escape function, the effect of the behavior is to ___________ the presentation of an aversive event.

A. cause

B. initiate

C. terminate or postpone

D. Predict

13. In an escape function, the effect of the behavior is to cause the presentation of an aversive event.

A. True

B. False

14. Aversive events are ________ to the individual.

A. unconditioned

B. important

C. delivered

D. relative




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,15. The subsequent effect of a negative reinforcement contingency on behavior is one of __________ its
probability under the same or similar conditions in the future.

A. decreasing

B. changing

C. controlling

D. increasing

16. According to the text, behaviors that are maintained as a result of negative reinforcement comprise
___________.

A. access functions

B. escape functions

C. inappropriate

D. socially mediated functions

17. According to the text, behaviors that are maintained as a result of negative reinforcement are always
composed of socially mediated functions

A. True

B. False

18. Escape functions result in the aversive event being ________________ as a result of the occurrence of the
behavior.

A. terminated or avoided

B. applied

C. reinforced

D. socially mediated

19. The form or topography of the behavior _______ dictates what environmental function exists.

A. will usually

B. will always

C. will never

D. does not usually




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, 20. The same topography of behavior exhibited by a given child _________ environmental effects or functions.

A. always produces the same

B. never produces the same

C. never produces different

D. can produce different

21. ___________ situations involve issuing a request or directive to engage in some behavior

A. Positive reinforcement

B. Compliance

C. Rule governed

D. Neutral reinforcement

22. When oppositional behavior occurs in compliance situations,

A. it is generally related to poor parenting

B. it can be analyzed in terms of function

C. it is a sign of underlying mental illness

D. punishment is usually needed

23. In some cases, noncompliance takes an innocuous form, such as the individual simply not attending to the
person issuing the command. Such a lack of response is maintained by ___________.

A. direct reinforcement

B. indirect punishment

C. positive reinforcement

D. negative reinforcement

24. There are two access functions: ___________

A. Direct and social mediation.

B. Direct and inter-directly

C. Socially mediated and indirectly

D. All of the above

25. Escape functions involve a behavior that terminates an aversive event in one of two ways: ___________

A. Directly and inter-directly

B. Directly and through social mediation


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, C. Socially mediated and indirectly

D. None of the above

26. With a negative access function, the client’s behavior immediately produces the positive reinforcer without
social mediation of such.

A. True

B. False

27. With a ________ function, the client’s behavior immediately produces the positive reinforcer without social
mediation of such.

A. direct access

B. indirect access

C. socially mediated access

D. negative access

28. With a socially mediated access function, the client’s behavior immediately produces the positive reinforcer
without social mediation of such.

A. True

B. False

29. There are four major functions: _________________

A. Direct access, direct escape, socially mediated access, socially mediated escape

B. Direct, socially mediated, positive, negative

C. Direct access, direct escape, indirect access, indirect escape

D. Tangible access, social access, demand escape, sensory access

30. An individual is hungry and therefore goes to the refrigerator, opens the door, selects an apple, and eats it.
This chain of behaviors involved in getting the apple directly produced the reinforcer—the ingestion of the
apple. We would not say that the individual exhibits those behaviors because of the attention someone gives
to him, regardless of whether such attention is positive, negative, or neutral. Attention is a tangential
consequent event. Getting the apple is the desired reinforcer. This is an example of a _________ function.

A. direct escape

B. direct access

C. socially mediated access

D. socially mediated escape




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