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ABA 626 MIDTERM EXAM NEWEST
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
Type(s) of descriptive functional behavior assessment. (mark all that
apply)
A) ABC Continuous Recording
D
O
B) Behavior Rating Scales
N
C) Scatterplots
O
D) ABC Narrative Recording
T
E) Behavioral Interviews - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > ABC Continuous
C
Recording, Scatterplots, ABC Narrative Recording (A, C, D)
O
PY
TRUE or FALSE. Reinforcement and punishment are specific
behavior-change tactics that should be part of every practitioner's
repertoire. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > False
TRUE or FALSE. The highest level of scientific understanding is
prediction or the ability to establish a correlation between events. -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > False
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Mr. Goldstein decides to give his students points, usable for extra free
time, when they raise their hands and wait to be called on. He discovers
that more students raise their hand and fewer students blurt out answers
when he awards points than when he does not. This finding seems to
show:
A) points exerting stimulus control over blurting out answers.
B) points serving as a motivating operation for hand-raising.
C) a functional relation between points and hand raising.
D
O
D) punishment of blurting out answers - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > C) a
functional relation between points and hand raising.
N
O
T
An adult with intellectual and developmental disabilities gets up
C
frequently during the night to talk and check on awake overnight staff in
O
the group home. When an extinction procedure is implemented and staff
PY
no longer talk with the individual during the night, the individual gets up
even more frequently for the first three nights. This secondary effect of
extinction is referred to as a/an:
A) extinction burst
B) extinction-induced variability
C) spontaneous recovery
D) behavioral resurgence - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > A) extinction burst
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Two overarching classes of conditions that maintain problem behavior
are:
A) positive reinforcement and sensory reinforcement.
B) social reinforcement and tangible reinforcement.
C) automatic and negative reinforcement.
D) socially mediated and automatic reinforcement. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
D) socially mediated and automatic reinforcement.
D
O
Which statement describes extinction from the perspective of a behavior
N
change tactic?
O
T
A) the diminishing rate of a previously reinforced behavior when it no
C
O
longer produces reinforcement.
PY
B) provides zero probability of reinforcement for a previously
reinforced behavior.
C) the functional relation between withholding the reinforcer and the
diminishing rate of a behavior. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > B) provides zero
probability of reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.
Appropriate functional alternatives to problem behavior:
A) produce the same reinforcer for the individual
ABA 626 MIDTERM EXAM NEWEST
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
Type(s) of descriptive functional behavior assessment. (mark all that
apply)
A) ABC Continuous Recording
D
O
B) Behavior Rating Scales
N
C) Scatterplots
O
D) ABC Narrative Recording
T
E) Behavioral Interviews - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > ABC Continuous
C
Recording, Scatterplots, ABC Narrative Recording (A, C, D)
O
PY
TRUE or FALSE. Reinforcement and punishment are specific
behavior-change tactics that should be part of every practitioner's
repertoire. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > False
TRUE or FALSE. The highest level of scientific understanding is
prediction or the ability to establish a correlation between events. -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > False
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Mr. Goldstein decides to give his students points, usable for extra free
time, when they raise their hands and wait to be called on. He discovers
that more students raise their hand and fewer students blurt out answers
when he awards points than when he does not. This finding seems to
show:
A) points exerting stimulus control over blurting out answers.
B) points serving as a motivating operation for hand-raising.
C) a functional relation between points and hand raising.
D
O
D) punishment of blurting out answers - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > C) a
functional relation between points and hand raising.
N
O
T
An adult with intellectual and developmental disabilities gets up
C
frequently during the night to talk and check on awake overnight staff in
O
the group home. When an extinction procedure is implemented and staff
PY
no longer talk with the individual during the night, the individual gets up
even more frequently for the first three nights. This secondary effect of
extinction is referred to as a/an:
A) extinction burst
B) extinction-induced variability
C) spontaneous recovery
D) behavioral resurgence - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > A) extinction burst
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Two overarching classes of conditions that maintain problem behavior
are:
A) positive reinforcement and sensory reinforcement.
B) social reinforcement and tangible reinforcement.
C) automatic and negative reinforcement.
D) socially mediated and automatic reinforcement. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
D) socially mediated and automatic reinforcement.
D
O
Which statement describes extinction from the perspective of a behavior
N
change tactic?
O
T
A) the diminishing rate of a previously reinforced behavior when it no
C
O
longer produces reinforcement.
PY
B) provides zero probability of reinforcement for a previously
reinforced behavior.
C) the functional relation between withholding the reinforcer and the
diminishing rate of a behavior. - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > B) provides zero
probability of reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior.
Appropriate functional alternatives to problem behavior:
A) produce the same reinforcer for the individual
