EDF 6226 Final Exam Study Guide 2023 100% Solved (70 Questions)

baer wolfe and risley included _____ ______ _____ as one of the 7 defining characteristics of ABA - ANSWER-generalized behavior change 3 facets of generalized behavior change - ANSWER-across time, settings, and behaviors we define _______ _______ as the extend to which a learner continues to perform a target behavior after a portion of all of the interventions responsible for the behavior's initial appearance in the learners repertoire has been terminated - ANSWER-response maintenance how long a newly learned behavior must be __________ depends on how long the learners environment presents _________ or requirements to perform behavior - ANSWER-maintained; opportunities __________/_________ __________ is the extent to which a learner emits a target behavior in a setting or stimulus situation that differs from the instructional setting in any meaningful way - ANSWER-setting/situation generalization if the complete intervention program is required to produce behavior change in novel environment then no ________/_______ __________ can be claimed - ANSWER-setting/situation generalization _________ _____ denotes the environment where teaching occurs, including planned or unplanned aspects of the environment that may influence the learner's acquisition and generalization the target behavior - ANSWER-instructional setting A _________ ________ is any place or stimulus situation that differs from the instructional setting in some meaningful way and in which performers of the target behavior is desired - ANSWER-generalization setting When a behavior change produced in the classroom or clinic is not observed in the generalization environment, a lack of __________/________ ________ is evident - ANSWER-setting/situation generalization When a behavior change produced in the classroom or clinic has occurred at least once in the generalization setting and the ceases to occur, a lack of __________ _________ is evident - ANSWER-response maintenance _________ _______ is the extent to which a learner emits untrained responses that are functionally equivalent to the trained target behavior - ANSWER-response generalization _______ _______ ______ is a relative concepts; it exists along a continumum - ANSWER-generalized behavior change Undesirable setting/situation generalization takes two common forms - ANSWER-overgeneralization; faulty stimulus control ________ refers to an outcome in which the behavior has come under the control of an overly broad stimulus control - ANSWER-overgeneralization With _________the target behavior comes under the restricted control of an irrelevant antecedent stimulus - ANSWER-faulty stimulus control undesired ________ __________ occurs when a learners untrained by functionally equivalent responses result in poor performance or undesirable outcomes - ANSWER-response generalization _________ _______ _____ refers to changes in the behavior of people not directly treated by an intervention as a function of treatment contingencies applied to other people - ANSWER-generalization across subjects Vicarious reinforcement and spillover effect are other terms used for ____________ across ________ - ANSWER-generalization; subjects Achieving optimal generalized outcomes requires a 2 step process: 1) selecting target behaviors that will meet ___________ contingencies of ____________ 2) specifying all desired variations of the ________ behavior and the _________/__________ in which those behaviors should (and should ______) occur after instruction has ended - ANSWER-natural; reinforcement; target; setting; situation; not One ultimate criterion for functionality: "A behavior is functional only to the extent that it produces _________ for the learner" - ANSWER-reinforcement the __________-___-________ rule states to choose only those behaviors to change that will produce reinforcers in the learners post-intervention environment - ANSWER-relevance-of-behavior True or false: Social mediation (walking fast on an icy sidewalk causes you to slip) is a naturally existing contingency - ANSWER-True True or false: A token economy is a contrived contingency? - ANSWER-True 5 stretigic approachs of generalized behavior change 1) teach the ________ ______ of relevant stimulus conditions and response requirements 2) make the __________ setting similar to the generalized setting 3) Maximize the target behaviors contact with ________ in the _________ setting 4) mediate ___________ 5) train to _________ - ANSWER-Full range; instructional; reinforcement; generalization; generalization; generalize True or false: most important behaviors must be performed in various ways across a wide rage of stimulus conditions - ANSWER-true A strategy called ________ _______ ______ consists of teaching the student to respond to a subset of all the possible stimulus and response examples and then probing the students performance on untrained examples - ANSWER-teach enough examples 4 dimensions in which teach enough examples can be used 1) the _______ item 2) the _________ _______ 3) the ________ 4) the person - ANSWER-specific; stimulus context; setting true or false: the more examples used during instruction, the more likely the learner will respond correctly to untrained examples or situations - ANSWER-true instruction that provides practice with a variety of response topographies helps ensure the acquition of desired response forms and promotes response generalization in the form of untrained topographies is known as _______-_______ ______- - ANSWER-multiple exemplar training ________ ________ ______ is a systematic methods for selecting teaching examples that represent the full range of stimulus variations and response requirements in the generalization setting - ANSWER-general case analysis True or false: "Don't do it" teaching sharpens the stimulus control necessary to master many concepts and skills - ANSWER-true Negative teaching examples are necessary when the learner must _________ between appropriate and _________ conditions for a particular response - ANSWER-discriminate; inappropriate