ABA 626 - National University Questions with
Verified Correct Answers
Two overarching classes of conditions that maintain problem behavior are:
socially mediated and automatic reinforcement
A BCBA employed by a school district to conduct functional assessment and develop
behavior intervention plans is working as a:
practitioner guided by behavior analysis
According to Cooper, Heron and Heward (2020), the experimental branch of behavior
analysis formally began with:
Skinner's publication: The Behavior of Organisms
Mr. Goldstein decides to give his students points, useable for extra free time, when they
raise their hands and wait to be called on. He discovers that more students raise their
hands and fewer students blurt out answers when he awards points than when he does
not. This finding seems to show:
a functional relationship between points and hand-raising.
If a behavior analyst wants to develop a behavior intervention plan based on the
strongest possible, empirically-derived information about the target behavior, they are
most likely to do so only after demonstrating:
experimental control over the behavior
a functional relationship between an independent and the behavior
a reliable change in the behavior given repeated manipulation of a particular aspect of the
environment
, When Ms. Smith was in the checkout line at the groery store her child had a tantrum
because she could buy him candy. She was embarrassed and gave in, and he
immediately calmed. Now the child begins to loudly ask for candy as the approach the
check out, but Ms. Smith carries a bag of treats in her pocket that she can give him.
Based on their current behavior it would appear that in the original episode:
yelling was positively reinforced and giving candy was negatively reinforced.
Fernando continues to play with his iPad after his teacher announces that free time is
over and asks the students to open their books. The teacher removes a toke from
Fernando's board. The next time Fernando follows the direction s quickly, because with
each regard to his playing, losing a token must have functioned as:
negative punishment
Renee is not fond of reading, but for each book she read her teacher gave points that
could be exchanged for a variety of things she liked. At a certain point in the school
year, the teacher decided that reading should be intrinsically reinforcing by now, and
discontinued the point system. The fact that Renee subsequently read less probably is
an indicator of
extinction
True or False:
Reinforcement and punishment are specific behavior- change tactics that should be part
of every practitioners repertoire:
false
Once an FBA has been completed, what strategic approach(es) to intervention may be
based upon it (select all that apply)?
Verified Correct Answers
Two overarching classes of conditions that maintain problem behavior are:
socially mediated and automatic reinforcement
A BCBA employed by a school district to conduct functional assessment and develop
behavior intervention plans is working as a:
practitioner guided by behavior analysis
According to Cooper, Heron and Heward (2020), the experimental branch of behavior
analysis formally began with:
Skinner's publication: The Behavior of Organisms
Mr. Goldstein decides to give his students points, useable for extra free time, when they
raise their hands and wait to be called on. He discovers that more students raise their
hands and fewer students blurt out answers when he awards points than when he does
not. This finding seems to show:
a functional relationship between points and hand-raising.
If a behavior analyst wants to develop a behavior intervention plan based on the
strongest possible, empirically-derived information about the target behavior, they are
most likely to do so only after demonstrating:
experimental control over the behavior
a functional relationship between an independent and the behavior
a reliable change in the behavior given repeated manipulation of a particular aspect of the
environment
, When Ms. Smith was in the checkout line at the groery store her child had a tantrum
because she could buy him candy. She was embarrassed and gave in, and he
immediately calmed. Now the child begins to loudly ask for candy as the approach the
check out, but Ms. Smith carries a bag of treats in her pocket that she can give him.
Based on their current behavior it would appear that in the original episode:
yelling was positively reinforced and giving candy was negatively reinforced.
Fernando continues to play with his iPad after his teacher announces that free time is
over and asks the students to open their books. The teacher removes a toke from
Fernando's board. The next time Fernando follows the direction s quickly, because with
each regard to his playing, losing a token must have functioned as:
negative punishment
Renee is not fond of reading, but for each book she read her teacher gave points that
could be exchanged for a variety of things she liked. At a certain point in the school
year, the teacher decided that reading should be intrinsically reinforcing by now, and
discontinued the point system. The fact that Renee subsequently read less probably is
an indicator of
extinction
True or False:
Reinforcement and punishment are specific behavior- change tactics that should be part
of every practitioners repertoire:
false
Once an FBA has been completed, what strategic approach(es) to intervention may be
based upon it (select all that apply)?
